Here Comes Trouble

Clear-eyed and caustic... Nineteen Eighty-Four crossed with Adrian Mole * Daily Mail *
Often very funny and always pacy, Wroe'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 *
I loved this rollercoaster of a ride into a corrupt, fictitious country that feels only too hideously real. Highly recommended -- Deborah Moggach, author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Scarily prophetic about news, freedom and truth. Whip smart and very funny -- Antonia Hodgson, author of The Devil in Marshalsea
Take Sacha Baron Cohen, add a twist of Kafka and lace it with Groucho Marx. You're entering the surreal and blackly funny world of Simon Wroe. A brilliant novel by a very special writer -- Miranda Seymour
A tour de force. A page-dazzler. A dark dream that may come true -- Piers Plowright
Far funnier than any account of approaching far-right revolution has the right to be. Highly recommended -- John Higgs
Crammed full of funny lines, dazzlingly perceptive and witty * Claire McGowan, author of the Paula Maguire novels *
As resonant as Orwell's 1984 -- Vine Voice
1984 brought up to date with teenage black humour and hormones -- Vine Voice
'Raucous and inventive, peopled with technicolour characters and savagely funny, Chop Chopannounces Simon Wroe as both an heir to Martin Amis and an oven-fresh talent unto himself' -- A D Miller on Chop Chop
Depicts the literal underworld of a restaurant kitchen with wit, vigor, and gleeful, necessary profanity -- New York Times on Chop Chop
Dark, pungent, twisted, surprising and above all genuinely funny. If you enjoy eating out, don't read this book -- William Sutcliffe on Chop Chop
Perfectly baked [with] a rich, gooey pool of dark comedy hiding beneath the surface -- Independent on Chop Chop
Brutally funny... Sometimes the truth is so strange it needs to be sautéed in a pan of fiction -- Gary Shteyngart on Chop Chop
Dave Eggers channels Anthony Bourdain -- Kirkus on Chop Chop
A complete page-turner.Reminiscent of Kitchen Confidential but with an entirely fresh voice that is a pleasure to read -- Thomasina Miers on Chop Chop
A greasy, hilarious tale of loyalty, revenge and dark appetites. A gripping look behind the kitchen wall -- Shortlist on Chop Chop
Brace yourself for this lively, amusing and alarmingly informative novel -- Daily Mail on Chop Chop
A 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 . . . makes this ugly world delicious -- Book of the Week, Flavorwire, on Chop Chop
Lip-smacking . . . As shocking and witty as it is savage -- Vogue on Chop Chop
sets out comically and satirically what can happen when the rules break down * ISLINGTON TRIBUNE *