Joe Dunthorne was born and brought up in Swansea. His poetry has been featured on Channel 4 and Radio 3 and he has performed at festivals including Hay-on-Wye and Latitude. Now twenty-eight, Joe lives in London. Submarine is his first novel.
A brilliant first novel by a young man of ferocious comic talent The Times Dunthorne captures the mores of Britain today better than novelists twice his age New Statesman Brilliant ... laugh-out-loud enjoyable. The sharpest, funniest, rudest account of a troubled teenager's coming-of-age since The Catcher in the Rye Independent Transplants The Catcher in the Rye to south Wales ... Dunthorne can make you laugh like you did during double physics on a wet Wednesday afternoon Observer A richly amusing tale of mock GCSEs, sex, death and challenging vocabulary ... Excruciatingly funny incidents and cracking gags Time Out Excellent ... the wonderful, Day-Glo certainties of adolescence have rarely been so brilliantly laid out Independent on Sunday