Human Punk: John King Interviewed
For King, the post-war era has yielded an overwhelming degree of change within British society. One senses, even before he begins discussing this fully, that these changes aren’t necessarily welcomed by him; he speaks nostalgically about pre-war writers in Britain — the kind of writers now published by his own publishing imprint, London Books. “I just started getting interested in those books because, having read them, I found them very modern, actually; very imaginative, very political. Very honest books; more modern, in a lot of ways, than a lot of stuff that’s published today.”
Charlotte Stretch interviews John King, author of the Football Factory trilogy.
3:AM Top 5: Heidi James
Heidi James runs the uber-hip Social Disease, publishers of 3:AM London, New York, Paris, to which she contributes the story ‘Les Annes Folles’. Her debut novel Carbon will be published by Wrecking Ball Press this year and her short, ‘The Mesmerist’s Daughter’, was published by Apis Books in the anthology Two Tall Tales and One […]