Spud - Book 1

It's South Africa 1990. Two major events are about to happen: The release of Nelson Mandela and, more importantly, it's Spud Milton's first year at an elite boys only private school.

Cursed with parents from well beyond the lunatic fringe, a senile granny, and a dormitory full of strange characters, Spud has his hands full trying to adapt to his new home.

Surrounded by names such as Gecko, Rambo, Rain Man and Mad Dog, Spud takes his first tentative steps along the path to manhood. (The path, it seems, could be a rather long road.)

Armed with only his wits and his diary, Spud takes us from illegal night swimming to the red-hot furnace of the cricket pitch, from ghostbusting to a catastrophic family vacation.

He also invites us into the mind of a boy struggling to come to terms with a strange new world; a boy whose eyes are being opened to love, friendship and complete insanity.

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Spud 2 - The Madness Continues...

The year is 1991, and Spud Milton's long walk to manhood is still creeping along at an unnervingly slow pace.

Approaching the ripe old age of fifteen and still with no signs of the much anticipated ball-drop, Spud is coming to terms with the fact that he may well be a freak of nature.

With a mother hell-bent on emigrating, a father making a killing out of selling homemade moonshine, and a demented grandmother called Wombat, the new year seems to offer little except extreme embarrassment and more mortifying Milton madness.

But Spud is returning to a boarding school where he is no longer the youngest or the smallest. His dormitory mates, known as the Crazy Eight, have an unusual new member and his house has a new clutch of first years (the Normal Seven).

If Spud thinks his second year will be a breeze, however, he is seriously mistaken. He is soon beset with women trouble, coerced into misguided late night adventures, and finds his dreams of a famous career on the stage in tatters after landing the part of the Dove of Peace in a disastrous house play production of Noah's Ark.

Hilarious, bitter-sweet, tragic and real, join Spud as he takes another tentative step forward while all around him the madness continues.

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Spud 3 - Learning to fly

Spud Milton is back!

Following on the success of the bestsellers Spud and Spud: The madness continues?

John van de Ruit returns with more adventures from the Crazy Eight.

In this eagerly anticipated third installment of the quadrilogy, Spud takes on one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, A Midsummer Nights Dream.

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The Making of Spud the Movie

Follow John van de Ruit's story through the production of Spud The Movie.

Against the backdrop of the email banter between John van de Ruit and Ross Garland - John's childhood friend and the film's producer - as well as that of amusing auditions, scripting setbacks and his own day-by-day comical acoount of watching cameramen, make-up artists and actors turn his novel into a film.

John presents for his fans a setting for scores of chuckles and nonstop page-turning

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