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: "The post- post- modern
Victorian fables that comprise Hal Duncan's A Scruffian Survival Guide
inhabit a unique dark fantasy world - a feral dream. The language is mad
genius." -- Jeffrey Ford "Hal Duncan's cheeky and charming Scruffian
stories hide a steely shiv of inspection..." -- Neil Williamson