Laugh at the disasters
Bad advice, first-day nerves and the penguin incident. Hamish can explain the physics. He cannot explain why it always happens to him.
TEEN READS · ANGUS & DUNDEE · 1996–97
Private. Do not read. (You absolutely should.)
Hamish MacNair
and the End of the World (Probably)
Thirteen. Brilliant at computers.
Less brilliant at being thirteen.
A game to finish. A girl to talk to. A best mate with terrible advice. And a pair of penguin pants that really should have stayed private.
An illustrated teenage diary by Chris Hughes
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BEFORE THE THRILLERS. BEFORE HE HAD A CLUE.
The world is complicated.
School is worse.
Hamish MacNair can make computer-game villagers remember things. Getting through a conversation with Jennifer Fraser without saying something mortifying is proving considerably harder.
Set in Angus and Dundee in 1996–97, this funny, illustrated coming-of-age diary follows friendship, first feelings, family life and the glorious mess of making something of your own. Jennifer has a sketchbook, ideas and ambitions of her own. She is considerably more than a problem Hamish can solve.
Meet the young Hamish from the Harriet Keel world. You can start here without having read the thrillers.
FOR ANYONE WHO HAS EVER OVERTHOUGHT EVERYTHING
Big ideas.
Small social disasters.
Find your kind of people
Davie has his back. Jennifer has her own ideas. Grandad Patrick knows when a clever answer is missing the point.
Step inside his notebook
A 1990s world of computer games, handwritten notes and sketchbook margins. Funny, awkward and full of heart.
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