London Books

16/06/2024

The latest copy of Verbal is now available - grab your copy right here 👉 https://bit.ly/4epvDgH

Includes: Walking through the night hills for home – Alan Warner interview. Stories by Mike Head, Stewart Home, Kenny Moore, Walter Otton, Ben Richards, Joseph Ridgwell, Kevin Tosca, Irvine Welsh. Craig Morriss’ Warner, Bruno Schulz, Gerald Kersh.

Cover illustration: Wasted Words by Allan Kausch.

05/12/2023

Check out John King's latest interview with Paul J. Laverty on The Quiet Carriage podcast!

Avialable right here 👉

Listen to The Quiet Carriage on Spotify. A show about books and authors.

19/11/2023

Check out this latest feedback for John's King's 'London Country' - available here 👉 https://bit.ly/3R4f6oR

“London Country is by far the most original and ambitious work that I have read this year. A clever, artful and optimistic book in which, to misquote King’s hero George Orwell, hope really does lie quite literally with the proles.” – Andrew Hussey’s Book of the Year, New Statesman

18/11/2023

Discover 'Justice Killer' by Martin Knight - out now! 📣

"Paul Garfield is a su***de in waiting. Following the death of his wife and soulmate, Jan, he lives with controlled despair, going through the motions for the sake of his daughter, who is starting out in the world.

"When he recalls the murder of an elderly war hero he knew as a schoolboy, and believing an older local youth to be responsible, Paul is determined to confront the killer. Travelling back to his childhood home, he surprises himself by what happens next. And how it makes him feel. Vengeance is easy. Retribution is sweet. Life is worth living."

Get your copy here 👉 https://bit.ly/3SNrVoR

18/10/2023

"Peter Mason applauds a second helping of novellas from three of Britain’s finest and most inventive writers..."

Read more on Peter's review of 'The View From Poacher's Hill' in the Morning Star, here 👇

PETER MASON applauds a second helping of novellas from three of Britain’s finest and most inventive writers

05/09/2023

Ben Richards's review of 'The View From Poacher's Hill' by Alan Warner, Irvine Welsh and John King is out now!

Read it here 👇

“Free-thinking fiction for our narrow-minded times” is the battle cry on the blurb of a new collection of stories from the Warner-Welsh-King (WWK) trio that make up The Seal Club. It would be fair to say that the pale male (the issue of ‘stale’ will be addressed below) d’un certain âge is...

09/08/2023

John King’s 'Grand Union'…

09/08/2023

Irvine Welsh’s 'In Real Life'...

09/08/2023

Alan Warner’s 'Migration'...

08/08/2023

The Seal Club returns. 'The View From Poacher’s Hill' is now available on our website.

Alan Warner, Irvine Welsh, John King…

Get your copy here 👉 https://bit.ly/45bh2QO

11/07/2023

This summer, check out The Seal Club On Tour with John King, Alan Warner and Irvine Welsh.

You can find the trio at Rebellion 2023 (info below), or by heading to the Edinburgh International Book Festival. All happening this August, more details right here 👉 https://bit.ly/46IWIaP

12/05/2023

Check out John King's latest catch up with Mike over at Musings of an old punk!

You can find John's new book, 'London Country', here 👉 https://bit.ly/44V3x8E

06/05/2023

Verbal, Issue 9, out now!

Martin Knight interview – justice fiction, cancel culture, Barry Desmond. Craig Morriss on Kafka, Camus, Orwell, Fallada. Allan Kausch cut-outs. New fiction from Garry Bushell, Michael Crowley, ian cusack, Cara Hoffman, Kevin Tosca. Paul Willetts talks Julian Maclaren-Ross. Cover by Jamie Macdonald. A5, 52pp.

https://www.john-king-author.co.uk/verbal

02/05/2023

Check out John King's latest interview about his new book, 'London Country' with Creases Like Knives.

Now available to purchase online 👉

A punk with a sampler, a nurse on a mission, a skinhead with a thirst – these three big-hearted locals just want to be left alone to live their lives to the scorching sounds of the Herbert Hi-Fi, but events are clouding their moods. When two friends look sure to clash in deadly fashion, a monster ...

02/05/2023

Great to see more positive reviews for John King's new book, 'London Country'.

Now available to purchase direct from his website! Click here 👉 https://bit.ly/41Uj32F

15/04/2023

"A punk with a sampler, a nurse on a mission, a skinhead with a thirst – these three big-hearted locals just want to be left alone to live their lives to the scorching sounds of the Herbert Hi-Fi, but events are clouding their moods.

"When two friends look sure to clash in deadly fashion, a monster steps out of the shadows and romance looms in the shape of someone who may or may not have been abducted by aliens, some tough decisions are needed. And these decisions will have consequences."

Check out the latest upcoming addition to the London Books shop - 'London Country' by John King!

A handful of pre-release copies are now available and you can get yours here: https://www.john-king-author.co.uk/london-country

14/02/2023

"Life on a London council estate leads the entrepreneurial Conrad on a conflicted journey between his ambition, his loyalty to his Jamaican nan and his need to redeem himself..."

To get your copy of Category Unknown by new London Books author Koushik Banerjea, click here 👉 http://bit.ly/3wrb12u

22/11/2022

Simon Blumenfeld’s East End quartet. All four novels are now available from London Books – https://www.london-books.co.uk/simonblumenfeld

20/11/2022

The fourth and final novel by Simon Blumenfeld has now been published by London Books. It comes with an introduction by Tali Chilson and is the 14th title in our ongoing London Classics series.

Read more here: http://bit.ly/3OnSdd1

11/07/2022

The Seal Club goes to Blackpool.

Seal Club 2: The View From Poacher’s Hill due in May 2023.

27/06/2022

“Banerjea’s novel sucks you in and places you on the streets, full of nervous energy, wide-eyed and confused, as complicated, real life goes on around you.

"Nothing here is certain, there’s no big happy ending, just a surprise reunion and an annotated playlist which juxtaposes the likes of Bowie, Wham, The Upsetters, Ennio Morricone, Elvis, Fela Kuti and Maze, just in case you weren’t listening. It’s an unsettling, engrossing read.” - International Times

Read more here 👇

Thirty years of London life in 350-odd pages… Punk, post-punk, fashionistas, politics, university lecturers and students, Asians, Rastafari and reggae. S*x, gender, abuse, arguments, crime, gangs, fights, street traders, street cred, gigs, love affairs, broken relationships, bu****it, lies, dirty ...

26/06/2022

Against a backdrop of imminent nuclear annihilation, The Fab Four, England football heroes winning the World Cup, Batman, the horrors of Aberfan and the Moors Murders, mods, rockers, skinheads, hippies, Sgt Pepper and Sgt Bilko, Martin Knight recounts his experiences at the ancient village church school, deliberately failing his eleven plus, and onto a secondary ‘modern’ education...

Get your copy of 'Broken Wafers', here 👇

British author Martin Knight was born at the end of the 1950s on the outskirts of semi-rural South London. Broken Wafers tells of his life on a council estate as he navigates the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s, charting a period when Britain emerged from post-war austerity into a more vibrant...

25/06/2022

Koushik Banerjea discusses his London novel Category Unknown at the Morocco Bound Bookshop in Southwick.

More here 👉 https://bookscover2cover.com/reviews/fiction/category-unknown/

21/06/2022

"Style, music and ambition went hand in hand, and as ever there were winners and losers in this nascent enterprise culture."

Find out how Koushik Banerjea was inspired to write 'Category Unknown' from the author himself, right here 👌

In an earlier era of tribal division and social collapse, Nile Rodgers memorably reminded us that ‘these are not good times.’ Though even he might be hard pressed to explain how they have subsequently got quite this bad.

20/06/2022

Just a couple of days until our next event with Koushik Banerjea, talking about the launch of his book 'Category Unknown'.

Get your tickets right here 👇

Join us for a discussion of politics, pop culture and existential threats...

15/05/2022

Join us for the official launch event of Koushik Banerjea's new fiction novel, 'Category Unknown' next Thursday!

All details, right here 👇

30/01/2022

As we round off the last weekend of January, here's another London classic for you - this time from Chubby And The Gang 👇

“All Along the Uxbridge Road” taken from the debut album ‘Speed Kills.’ Listen here: chubby.lnk.to/listenPre-order vinyl from Partisan Records here: chubby.l...

28/01/2022

Looking for your next new read? Treat yourself this weekend to something a little bit different 👌

To browse the London Books collection, click here 👉 https://bit.ly/3GGZzUZ

21/01/2022

A London classic from Lord Kitchener – listen to 'London Is The Place For Me' in full, right here, and let us know what you think! 👌

Available on 'London Is The Place For Me: Trinidadian Calypso In London, 1950-1956', Honest Jon's Records, 2003.http://www.amazon.co.uk/London-Place-Me-Trini...