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  • Published: 15 June 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241981207
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $22.99

Are You Experienced?

  • William Sutcliffe



The gap year classic, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time in the year of its 20th anniversary

A devastatingly funny satire on the whole idea of student travel,and particularly the India back-pack trail. Dave travels to India with Liz because he thinks he might be able to get her into bed. Liz travels to India with Dave because she wants a companion for her voyage of spiritual discovery. She loves it. He dreams of frosty mornings, pints of lager and restaurants where vegetable curry is only a side-dish...

  • Published: 15 June 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241981207
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $22.99

Praise for Are You Experienced?

Nobody is spared from [Sutcliffe's] acid pen and the result is a riotously funny trip across the sub-continent

The Sunday Times

Extremely and incisively funny

New Statesman

Very, very funny

The Times