Spud Category_SCIENCE Minor Black Figures is an

Minor Black Figures is an involving and tender portrait of loneliness and connection

When a hedgehog and an echidna meet and realise they have many similarities

Love and loss

On Ark Island

But when a little axolotl falls into danger

Spud Category_SCIENCE Minor Black Figures is anSpud Meet thirteen year old John 'Spud' Milton as he takes his first hilarious steps towards manhood in this wickedly funny, yet heart warming debut novel. It's 1990. Apartheid is crumbling, Nelson Mandela has just been released from prison and thirteen year old Spud Milton is about to start his first year at an elite boys only boarding school. Cursed with embarrassingly dysfunctional parents, a nutty granny and a dormitory full of strange characters,