Malcolm decides to make a documnetary about sex, and all sorts of hilarious and crazy things happen as a result in this YA novel by a NZ Post Book Award-winning author. The YA novel equivalent of a modern TV sit-com, Malcolm and Juiliet has moments of farce and slapstick, as a group of quirky teenagers is put in extraordinary situations (Malcom decides to make a documentary on sex), and then watched as they behave strangely and hilariously. Malcolm and Juliet, the sixth novel by the award-winning author of Genesis, is sharp, and full of smart one-liners, stretched situations, a cast of idiosyncratic characters, a 'sexy' theme and a minimum of description. Just like television! Beckett's novel not only tackles teenagers' main preoccupation, it undercuts, subverts and sends it up as well. Hilarious, with a marvellous sting in the tail.