Product Description
Submarine
Author: Joe Dunthorne
Format: Paperback
Desmond Elliott Prize 2026
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2026
'Are we making a bomb?'
'This is a trust exercise, like in drama,' she says.
'Are we making a bomb as a trust exercise?'
Fifteen-year-old Oliver Tate is terrified that his family is falling apart. He fears for his depressed father and is convinced that his mother is having an affair with her capoeira teacher. Deciding that it is down to him alone to save his parents' marriage, Oliver sets out on a campaign to rescue it while also embarking on an even more ambitious goal: to lose his virginity before he's sixteen to the seductive but slightly pyromaniacal Jordana . . .
'The sharpest, funniest, rudest account of a troubled teenager's coming of age since The Catcher in the Rye' — Independent
'A brilliant first novel by a young man of ferocious comic talent' — The Times
About the Author
Joe Dunthorne was born and brought up in Swansea. He is the author of three novels and one collection of poetry, including Submarine, which has been translated into fifteen languages and made into an acclaimed film directed by Richard Ayoade, and Wild Abandon, which won the 2012 Encore Award. Children of Radium is his first work of non-fiction. He lives in London.
www.joedunthorne.com
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