{"product_id":"here-comes-trouble-9781474604970","title":"Here Comes Trouble","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eClear-eyed and caustic... Nineteen Eighty-Four crossed with Adrian Mole\u003c\/b\u003e * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOften very funny and always pacy, \u003c\/b\u003eWroe'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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI loved this rollercoaster of a ride into a corrupt, fictitious country that feels only too hideously real. Highly recommended\u003c\/b\u003e -- Deborah Moggach, author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eScarily prophetic about news, freedom and truth. Whip smart and very funny\u003c\/b\u003e -- Antonia Hodgson, author of The Devil in Marshalsea\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTake Sacha Baron Cohen, add a twist of Kafka and lace it with Groucho Marx\u003c\/b\u003e. You're entering the surreal and blackly funny world of Simon Wroe. \u003cb\u003eA brilliant novel by a very special writer\u003c\/b\u003e -- Miranda Seymour\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA tour de force. A page-dazzler. A dark dream that may come true\u003c\/b\u003e -- Piers Plowright\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFar funnier than any account of approaching far-right revolution has the right to be. Highly recommended\u003c\/b\u003e -- John Higgs\u003cbr\u003eCrammed full of funny lines, dazzlingly perceptive and witty * Claire McGowan, author of the Paula Maguire novels *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs resonant as Orwell's 1984\u003c\/b\u003e -- Vine Voice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1984 brought up to date with teenage black humour and hormones\u003c\/b\u003e -- Vine Voice\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eRaucous and inventive\u003c\/b\u003e, peopled with technicolour characters and \u003cb\u003esavagely funny\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChop Chop\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eannounces Simon Wroe as both an heir to Martin Amis and an oven-fresh talent unto himself' \u003c\/b\u003e -- A D Miller on Chop Chop\u003cbr\u003eDepicts the literal underworld of a restaurant kitchen with \u003cb\u003ewit\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003evigor\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003egleeful\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003enecessary profanity\u003c\/b\u003e -- New York Times on Chop Chop\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDark, pungent, twisted, surprising and above all genuinely funny\u003c\/b\u003e. If you enjoy eating out, don't read this book -- William Sutcliffe on Chop Chop\u003cbr\u003ePerfectly baked [with] \u003cb\u003ea rich, gooey pool of dark comedy\u003c\/b\u003e  hiding beneath the surface -- Independent on Chop Chop\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrutally funny...\u003c\/b\u003e Sometimes the truth is so strange it needs to be sautéed in a pan of fiction -- Gary Shteyngart on Chop Chop\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDave Eggers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e channels \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnthony Bourdain\u003c\/b\u003e -- Kirkus on Chop Chop\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA complete page-turner.\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cb\u003eReminiscent of Kitchen Confidential\u003c\/b\u003e but with an entirely fresh voice that is \u003cb\u003ea pleasure to read\u003c\/b\u003e -- Thomasina Miers on Chop Chop\u003cbr\u003eA greasy, \u003cb\u003ehilarious tale of loyalty, revenge and dark appetites\u003c\/b\u003e. A \u003cb\u003egripping\u003c\/b\u003e look behind the kitchen wall -- Shortlist on Chop Chop\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrace yourself \u003c\/b\u003efor this \u003cb\u003elively, amusing and alarmingly \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003einformative novel\u003c\/b\u003e -- Daily Mail on Chop Chop\u003cbr\u003eA 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 . . . \u003cb\u003emakes this ugly world delicious\u003c\/b\u003e -- Book of the Week, Flavorwire, on Chop Chop\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLip-smacking\u003c\/b\u003e . . . As \u003cb\u003eshocking and witty\u003c\/b\u003e as it is savage -- Vogue on Chop Chop\u003cbr\u003esets out comically and satirically what can happen when the rules break down * ISLINGTON TRIBUNE *","brand":"Orion Publishing Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47851818025303,"sku":"9781474604970","price":8.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781474604970.jpg?v=1710645779","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/here-comes-trouble-9781474604970","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}