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Book SynopsisFrom the Costa-shortlisted author of CHOP CHOP, HERE COMES TROUBLE is a comic novel with bite. Set in a collapsing country - where larger-than-life characters make promises they can't keep - it's the perfect read for our strange, tumultuous times.
Trade ReviewClear-eyed and caustic... Nineteen Eighty-Four crossed with Adrian Mole * Daily Mail *
Often very funny and always pacy, Wroe's novel is at once a capering Bildungsroman and a serious examination of how easily democracy can crumble if the institutions and morals that keep it robust are attacked * Sunday Times *
I loved this rollercoaster of a ride into a corrupt, fictitious country that feels only too hideously real. Highly recommended -- Deborah Moggach, author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Scarily prophetic about news, freedom and truth. Whip smart and very funny -- Antonia Hodgson, author of The Devil in Marshalsea
Take Sacha Baron Cohen, add a twist of Kafka and lace it with Groucho Marx. You're entering the surreal and blackly funny world of Simon Wroe.
A brilliant novel by a very special writer -- Miranda Seymour
A tour de force. A page-dazzler. A dark dream that may come true -- Piers Plowright
Far funnier than any account of approaching far-right revolution has the right to be. Highly recommended -- John Higgs
Crammed full of funny lines, dazzlingly perceptive and witty * Claire McGowan, author of the Paula Maguire novels *
As resonant as Orwell's 1984 -- Vine Voice
1984 brought up to date with teenage black humour and hormones -- Vine Voice
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Raucous and inventive, peopled with technicolour characters and
savagely funny,
Chop Chop announces Simon Wroe as both an heir to Martin Amis and an oven-fresh talent unto himself' -- A D Miller on Chop Chop
Depicts the literal underworld of a restaurant kitchen with
wit,
vigor, and
gleeful,
necessary profanity -- New York Times on Chop Chop
Dark, pungent, twisted, surprising and above all genuinely funny. If you enjoy eating out, don't read this book -- William Sutcliffe on Chop Chop
Perfectly baked [with]
a rich, gooey pool of dark comedy hiding beneath the surface -- Independent on Chop Chop
Brutally funny... Sometimes the truth is so strange it needs to be sautéed in a pan of fiction -- Gary Shteyngart on Chop Chop
Dave Eggers channels Anthony Bourdain -- Kirkus on Chop Chop
A complete page-turner. Reminiscent of Kitchen Confidential but with an entirely fresh voice that is
a pleasure to read -- Thomasina Miers on Chop Chop
A greasy,
hilarious tale of loyalty, revenge and dark appetites. A
gripping look behind the kitchen wall -- Shortlist on Chop Chop
Brace yourself for this
lively, amusing and alarmingly informative novel -- Daily Mail on Chop Chop
A great kitchen novel. From describing the battle-scarred hands of a chef to the overall rhythm that goes into making every plate of food, Wroe . . .
makes this ugly world delicious -- Book of the Week, Flavorwire, on Chop Chop
Lip-smacking . . . As
shocking and witty as it is savage -- Vogue on Chop Chop
sets out comically and satirically what can happen when the rules break down * ISLINGTON TRIBUNE *
