A Scruffian Primer

Meet the Scruffians, workhouse tykes and street arabs scrobbled by the Waiftaker General, dragged to the Institute and put to the Stamp, Fixed ageless, imperishable... the perfect child labour. Meet the scruffs escaped to live free & fight back: Flashjack and Puckerscruff; Squirlet Nicely and Vermintrude Toerag; Yapper, the Scruffian what speaks Dog; Whelp, the dog Fixed as a scruff; and Rake Jake Scallion, not a scruff, but the finest friend a scruff ever had. Park yer arse, stray, and we'll learn yer the ABCs of being a scruff. We'll learn yer how us Scruffians STAMP. Praise for A Scruffian Survival Guide: ÒThe post- post- modern Victorian fables that comprise Hal DuncanÕs A Scruffian Survival Guide inhabit a unique dark fantasy world Ð a feral dream. The language is mad genius.Ó -- Jeffrey Ford ""Hal Duncan's cheeky and charming Scruffian stories hide a steely shiv of inspection..."" -- Neil Williamson