Northern Monkeys
by Daniel Wright
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Pub Date Nov 28 2025 | Archive Date Jan 14 2026
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Description
The gritty story of working-class lads in Bradford, at the heart of Northern Monkeys is The Ointment — a football firm built on pride and reputation. But behind the matchday clashes are deeper struggles: addiction, poverty, broken homes, love, revenge, and the fight to stay above water. As the firm rises, the police close in, determined to bring them down.
Some lads are just trying to escape their mundane lives. Others are chasing power and a reputation. And some just want a few beers, a laugh with their mates, and a bit of casual violence.
But what happens on the streets is only half the story.
Northern Monkeys goes beyond the terraces — deep into the lives, relationships and choices that shape these men when the crowds are gone, and the doors are shut.
A brutal, honest look at life on the edge, when the lines between good and bad start to blur — and then start to cross.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781806341757 |
| PRICE | £4.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 248 |
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Average rating from 4 members
Featured Reviews
Laura S, Reviewer
NORTHERN MONKEYS BY DANIEL WRIGHT
Release date set for the 28th of November 2025.
5 ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨s.
Sex, drugs and football thugs.
I need more of this book and of this story.
Loved this gritty and brutally honest book. Based loosely on a true story.
Loved it.
It's raw and unapologetic and brutally honest.
Looking gor more books like this to read
Helen F, Reviewer
Fast paced and very hard hitting (pun intended) This is a real rollercoaster of a journey which immersed me into a completely alien world of football violence, racism, drugs and more. The characters feel very real and not as straight forward as you’d possibly imagine. The shockingly ultra violent have their own backstories and loyalties including loving relationships with partners and young families making them part of some surreal double life and hard to despise. There are some definite edge of the seat moments and life or death situations and some really emotional scenes making you really think of the bigger picture and the far reaching ripples created by a few spur of the moment actions. Definitely thought provoking and compelling stuff, a great read and I was left wanting to know what might happen next. Recommend.
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