William Sutcliffe

The gap year classic, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time in the year of its 20th anniversary. A devastatingly funny satire on the whole idea of student travel,and particularly the India back-pack trail. Dave travels to India with Liz because he thinks he might be able to get her into bed. Liz travels to India with Dave because she wants a companion for her voyage of spiritual discovery. She loves it. He dreams of frosty mornings, pints of lager and restaurants where vegetable curry is only a side-dish . . .

First published as Whatever Makes You Happy, the hilarious and moving novel about mothers and their adult sons will soon be a Netflix original movie starring Felicity Huffman, Angela Bassett and Patricia ArquetteThree sons. Three mums. One week.Matt, Daniel and Paul were childhood friends. Now in their thirties, they've lost touch and have only one thing in common: their mothers. Little do they know that, having spent a cardless Mother's Day discussing how their emotionally dysfunctional offspring should be settling down, Carol, Gillian and Helen have decided to pay their wayward sons a visit. On the same day, they turn up on their sons' doorsteps, uninvited and unannounced. Their plan is to reestablish the mother-son bond by moving in for one week. Just a week. Surely that's not a lot to ask...

A fresh, funny, heartfelt look at this generation''s must-win battle: one earth, one chance.It''s the summer holidays, and thirteen-year-old Luke''s life has been turned upside down. First his older sister Rose moved ''across the road'', where a community of climate rebels is protesting the planned airport expansion. Then his dad followed her.Dad only went to get Rose back, but now he''s out there building totem poles, wearing sandals and drinking mead (whatever that is) with the best of them.Can Luke save his family when all they want to do is save the planet?

SUNDAY TIMES CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019Laugh-out-loud funny and instantly recognisable - not since The Inbetweeners has a coming of age story been so irreverent and relatable.Fifteen-year-old Sam is not a famous vlogger, he's never gone viral, and he doesn't want to be the Next Big Thing. In fact he's ordinary and proud of it.None of which was a problem until Dad got rich and Mum made the whole family move to London. Now Sam's off to the North London Academy for the Gifted and Talented, where everyone's busy planning Hollywood domination or starting alt-metal psychedelica crossover bands. Sam knows he'll never belong, even if he wanted to. And that's before he ends up on stage wearing nothing but a fur onesie ...A brilliantly funny look at fitting in, falling out and staying true to your own averageness.'Dangerously funny ... To the parent, every line rings true - this is a writer with real live teenagers and he is especially good on the ups and downs of sibling relations and young love. Sutcliffe is gifted and talented. I hope the prizes flood in. I'll be giving this to every teenager I know' - Alex O'Connell, The Times'The Gifted, the Talented and Me made me cry with laughter. A comic novel like this is a gift to the nation' - Amanda Craig

Dave travels to India with Liz hoping to get her into bed. Liz travels with Dave wanting a companion for her voyage of self-discovery. This novel is a satire about backpackers.

A gripping and powerfully relevant thriller set in a reimagined London where constant surveillance is the norm, We See Everything simmers with tension and emotion. From internationally bestselling author William Sutcliffe, this is perfect for fans of Patrick Ness and Malorie Blackman. Lex lives on The Strip - the overcrowded, closed-off, bombed-out shell of London. He's used to the watchful enemy drones that buzz in the air above him. Alan's talent as a gamer has landed him the job of his dreams. At a military base in a secret location, he is about to start work as a drone pilot. These two young men will never meet, but their lives are destined to collide. Because Alan has just been assigned a high-profile target. Alan knows him only as #K622. But Lex calls him Dad.

In William Sutcliffe''s new novel, the hapless gap-yearers of ARE YOU EXPERIENCED? have given way to three men in their early thirties who are not (in the eyes of their alienated mothers) properly settled. Matt works for lads mag BALLS! and is a serial dater of girls half his age. Paul is an experienced hand at lying and evasion to keep his life choices a secret from his mother. Daniel spends his Saturday nights alone in his flat reading novels, pining for ex-girlfriend and love of his life Erin. The mothers decide to launch a co-ordinated attack: they will arrive, without warning, to stay with their sons for one week with the intention of man-handling them back onto the right path. Wonderfully funny, with some characteristically hilarious set pieces, William has once again shone a brilliantly incisive spotlight on his generation.

Joshua is thirteen. He lives with his mother and stepfather in Amarias, an isolated town on top of a hill, where all the houses are brand new. At the edge of Amarias is a high wall, guarded by soldiers, which can only be crossed through a heavily fortified checkpoint. Joshua has been taught that beyond the concrete is a brutal and unforgiving enemy, and that The Wall is the only thing keeping him and his people safe.One day, looking for a lost football, Joshua stumbles across a tunnel which leads towards this forbidden territory. He knows he won''t get another opportunity to see what is beyond The Wall until he''s old enough for military service, and the chance to crawl through and solve the mystery is too tempting to resist. He''s heard plenty of stories about the other side, but nothing has prepared him for what he finds...The Wall is a novel about a boy who undertakes a short journey to another world, to a place where everything he knows about loyalty, identity and justice is turned upside down. It is also a political fable that powerfully evokes the realities of life on the West Bank, telling the story of a Settler child who finds there are two sides to every story.

NEW BOY is a dark modern comedy about the hormonal angst of a Jewish lad growing up in north-west London's bagel belt.

Un divertidísimo best seller en Reino Unido, que satiriza las novelas de viajes espirituales y descubrimientos metafísicos. Para Dave, que se ha ido a la India sólo por concretar sus aspiraciones con su amiga Liz, ni el yoga, ni la meditacion, ni la paz interior son terminos que le interesen. Su viaje no hace mas que sobreexcitar sus manias de occidental.

Tierna, irónica, mordaz y muy de nuestro tiempo. Un grupo de amigos en la treintena padecen las cuestiones claves de nuestra sociedad moderna. Las confusiones respecto a la pareja, el amor contrariado, la depresion y las neuras de gentes muy cercanas al lector, magnificamente recreadas en estos divertidos personajes.

Hay que conocer mundo. Esta es la enfermedad que ataca con tremenda virulencia a los amigos de Dave durante todo el año previo a suentrada en la universidad. Las cumbres del Himalaya, Indonesia, Oceanía: cuanto más lejos y más exótico, mejor. Y luego se puede poner en el currículum.. Ahora Dave y Liz, la novia de su mejor amigo, emprenden viaje a la India. Ella espera encontrar iluminación interior; él desea encontrarla a ella en su cama. Apenas pone el pie en Delhi, a Dave le asalta la sospecha de que las cosas no se van a desarrollar segúnlo previsto. Pero todo sea porque al volver a casa, y entrar en la universidad, pueda decir: «Sí, yo he viajado».. Una novela hilarante, agridulce, fresca, con unos diálogos muy ingeniosos y unos personajes sabiamente perfilados.

Shanks Impossible Circus rolls back into town for this hilarious brand new adventure from Will Sutcliffe brought to life by wonderful illustrations from David Tazzyman! And theres about to be double the trouble as dastardly ringmaster Armitage Shank comes face to face with his long lost twin! Urgh, how will the world cope with two Shanks?

Pure delight the promised sequel cant come too soon Independent on Sunday Funny, Bizarre and brilliantly illustrated by David Tazzyman, this is perfect for anyone who loves Mr Gum. Sunday Express Get ready for rampages, chunky tandem rides, marching dogs, escaped convicts, synchronised otters and so much more! Shanks Impossible Circus is back There are 7,362 things that Armitage Shank hates and at the top of the list (which includes puppies, rainbows, lifts and flashing trainers) is being made a fool of. So, when he thinks his old nemesis, Queenie Bombazine, ringmaster of Bombazines Ecstatic Aquatic Splashtastic Circus, is trying to do just that, he sets out on a revenge rampage! Meanwhile, a HUGE revelation sends Hannah and Granny on their own journey to find Queenie, its only a matter of time before they all collide Full of fun, adventure and wacky characters, a must for fans of Andy Stanton, David Walliams and Roald Dahl.

"Writing that is as light on its feet as a human cannonball what really sets it apart is the easy humour, cameos (Granny and Fizzer the dog) and the postmodern footnotes that might flop in different hands, but instead lift the book into classic status. Bring on the next act!" The Times, Childrens Book of the Week "One of the best childrens books Ive read in ages" Wondrous Reads"Sutcliffe is a natural storyteller who gets you laughing from page one" Moontrug "Delightfully funny definitely up there as one of the best" BooksforBoys Roll up, roll up! The circus comes to town in this hilariously wacky adventure from bestselling author William Sutcliffe.Hannahs life is boring, boring, boring! Then Armitage Shanks Impossible Circus comes to town and Hannahs world is turned on its head when she meets Billy Shanks, his astonishing camel, Narcissus, and a host of other bizarrely brilliant members of the circus. But all is not as it seems; Armitage Shank, evil ringmaster and Billys surrogate father, has a dastardly plan that could end in catastrophe for Hannahs dull little village and its up to Hannah and Billy to stop his stinking scheme before its too late Full of fun, adventure and wacky characters, William Sutcliffes debut childrens novel - brought to life by the energetic illustrations of David Tazzyman - is a must for fans of Andy Stanton, David Walliams and Roald Dahl.

NEW BOY is a dark modern comedy about the hormonal angst of a Jewish lad growing up in north-west Londons bagel belt. "Sutcliffe has managed to pull off a worthy British companion to Portnoys Complaint" Jay Rayner,Observer "Well-written,clever and very funny" Literary Review "Smart,entertaining stuff...somewhere between Adrian Mole and Holden Caulfield" Philip Hensher,Mail on Sunday