With only his wits and his diary, he takes readers on a rowdy boarding school romp full of illegal midnight swims, catastrophic cricket matches, ghostbusting escapades, girls and disastrous.

Cursed with embarrassingly dysfunctional parents, a nutty granny and a dormitory full of strange characters, Spud has his hands full trying to adapt to his new home. 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. Spud is the hilarious debut novel by John van de Ruit 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. This is a great and really funny book! Although I didn’t understand all of the references, because John van de Ruit is South African.Description for Spud Paperback. standing above him was Rambo with a black shoe brush! WHAT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN?! I’m not gonna ruin it for you! READ IT!! When Spud’s birthday came around, he was really nervous, he thought he was going to get away with it, but his dorm mates carried him to the bogs, but instead of dragging him into a toilet stall, they dropped him on the floor. On Boggo’s birthday the Crazy Eight gave him a hogwash (they stuck his head in a toilet, and flushed it). As a school tradition, on every pupil’s birthday, his dorm mates give him a nasty surprise. That was only the beginning of Spud’s troubles. But thanks to Rambo’s story, the Crazy Eight got away. His dorm – the Crazy Eight, Rambo, Boggo, Gecko, Rain Man, Simon, Mad Dog and Fatty – are forced into night swimming, by Rambo, which ended in Fatty getting stuck in the window of the chapel. Starting a new school is hard, but for some reason Spud’s start is harder. The year is 1990, Nelson Mandela has just been released from prison, and Spud Milton is starting his first year in an Elite Boys’ School. WARNING THIS BOOK CONTAINS ADULT CONTENT (I RECOMMEND 13+)

Spud by john van de ruit