Here Comes Trouble: Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction

Simon Wroe

Apr 2017 · Weidenfeld & Nicolson · Narrated by Max Dowler

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Following his expulsion from school, seventeen-year-old dreamer Ellis Dau is sent to work with his father. His father is editor of The Chronicle, the last bastion of free speech in their strange, strange land. And it is under threat: from heavy-handed policemen, mysterious revolutionaries, and the resident Russian billionaire.

As Ellis navigates his collapsing, blacked-out city - and his feelings for the oligarch's beautiful daughter - he realises that some things are worth fighting for. But can he save his family and the newspaper fuelled only by youth, grain spirit and unrequited love?

Read by Max Dowler

(p) 2017 Orion Publishing Group

About the author

Simon Wroe is a freelance journalist and former chef. He writes food and culture features for the GUARDIAN and arts reviews for the ECONOMIST. His first book, CHOP CHOP, was shortlisted for the 2014 Costa First Novel Award, longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and won a Betty Trask Award. He was born in 1982 and lives in Camberwell, south London.

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