{"title":"Spud Series","description":"\u003cp\u003eLooking for your next series to binge? \u003cstrong\u003eSpud\u003c\/strong\u003e by John Van de Ruit is a contemporary fiction series that's easy to fall into.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStart at the beginning with Spud, then follow the story book by book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBest for teens and young adults. Browse every Spud book that we stock below.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"9780143024842","title":"Spud","description":"It’s 1990. Apartheid is crumbling. Nelson Mandela has just been released from prison. And Spud Milton—thirteen-year-old, prepubescent choirboy extraordinaire—is about to start his first year at an elite boys-only boarding school in South Africa. Cursed with embarrassingly dysfunctional parents, a senile granny named Wombat, and a wild obsession for Julia Roberts, Spud has his hands full trying to adapt to his new home. Armed with only his wits and his diary, Spud takes readers of all ages on a rowdy boarding school romp full of illegal midnight swims, raging hormones, and catastrophic holidays that will leave the entire family in total hysterics and thirsty for more. 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In this third instalment, Spud, now 16 and growing up, takes on one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32039895138419,"sku":"9780143025955","price":266.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/products\/spud-learning-to-fly-john-van-de-ruit-15208508096627.jpg?v=1752717392"},{"product_id":"9780143530244","title":"Spud Exit, Pursued by a Bear","description":"After an unexpected and diabolical farewell breakfast conversation with his father, Spud Milton returns to boarding school for his 1993 Matric year, his last as a schoolboy. Armed with a prefects’ tie and a raging libido, Spud soon discovers that being a large(ish) fish in a small pond has its fair share of challenges. He finds himself embroiled in fighting for his own room, directing a house play where both lead actors refuse to learn their lines, and assisting in Vern Blackadder’s dramatic return from the dead with nothing more than a drip cord and a pair of oven gloves. Amidst mounting pressure in the classroom and on the cricket field, Spud prepares to face down the most feared and dreaded challenge of them all—finding a date for the Matric dance. In this hilarious final installment of the Spud series, John Van de Ruit brings to a close his savagely funny blow by blow account of the agonies of growing up. The embarrassments, thrills, defeats, and the sheer-absurdity of daily life are wittily recorded in Spud’s unique voice as he prepares to make his own exit, pursued by a bear.","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32039903953011,"sku":"9780143530244","price":265.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/products\/spud-exit-pursued-by-a-bear-john-van-de-ruit-15208547778675.jpg?v=1637967237"},{"product_id":"9781770108981","title":"Spud, the Reunion","description":"\"It is 2003 - ten years since Spud Milton's class of 93 matriculated and the boys went their separate ways. Despite their seemingly unbreakable bond, the Crazy 8 - Rambo, Mad Dog, Vern, Fatty, Garth Garlic, Boggo, Simon and Spud - have not kept in touch. Or at least, not as far as Spud knows. When he receives an invitation from the school to attend the Ten-Year Reunion weekend, Spud is determined to avoid the event at all costs, but he hasn't reckoned with the bombardment of intrusive messages and threatening phone calls from his former dorm mates. No one is going to bend his arm, not this time; he is immune to peer pressure and wise to Rambo's devious manipulation techniques. Spud has moved on. And, anyway, he has enough to worry about on the home front. At 28 Spud is stuck in a one-third life crisis. Reflecting on a decade of spectacular non-achievement, at a point where he's coming to realize that his glittering stage career might have stalled before it's even begun, casts him into deep gloom. For the former scholarship kid, the prospect of once again having to measure up to his blue-blooded school friends - and be found wanting - has him riddled with anxiety. Not only that. Spud still doesn't have a serious girlfriend, which has seen him resort to a questionable international bath-sexting relationship with an old flame. Not to mention that circumstances have forced him to move back in with his parents and his senile grandmother, Wombat, whose walks never end where they began. After a wildly unsuccessful fishing trip with his father, as well as a return to his old way of figuring things out - writing in his diary - to his own surprise, Spud finds his reunion resistance crumbling. Curiosity and courage win the day. It's just a weekend, after all ... what could possibly go wrong?\"--","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42134888743027,"sku":"9781770108981","price":333.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/files\/Spud_-_The_Reunion_300dpi_with_no_shout_2.jpg?v=1752743572"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/collections\/spud-john-van-de-ruit-15104575963251.jpg?v=1792489491","url":"https:\/\/www.readerswarehouse.co.za\/collections\/spud-series.oembed","provider":"Readers Warehouse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}