Funny stories for teenagers are hard to come by, but if  Swim the Fly by Don Calame had been published when I was a teenager, I would’ve devoured it.

It’s a little bit raucous and rude (definitely a book for fourteens and over) but has the funniest cast of characters imaginable.

Three teenage boys make pact at the beginning of the school holidays: within six weeks they have to see a naked body, in real life. What follows is ridiculously funny…