Background
John King was born on January 1, 1967, in Slough, United Kingdom.
Lascelles Rd, London, Slough SL3 7PR, United Kingdom
John was educated at Upton Court Grammar School.
Photo of John King
Photo of John King
Photo of John King
Lascelles Rd, London, Slough SL3 7PR, United Kingdom
John was educated at Upton Court Grammar School.
Photo of John King
Photo of John King
Photo of John King
(It is sometime in the future and the individual nations o...)
It is sometime in the future and the individual nations of Europe no longer exist. The EU's mission has reached its final stage in the form of the USE, with powerfully centralized. This corporate-driven, closet dictatorship promotes New Democracy, its true nature hidden behind fake smiles, easy debt, and empty liberal rhetoric. With the cities run by Good Europeans, locals live as second-class citizens. But across Europe resistance groups fight back, and Britain is no different. In London, an ambitious young bureaucrat uses Suspicion software to identify threats to the USE, stumbling across a shocking murder just as a high-ranking Controller is about to arrive from Brussels. At the same time, a member of GB45 leaves one of the Free English towns in Wessex and heads towards the capital. Despite the efforts of special police unit Cool, these three men are set on a collision course.
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(The Football Factory is the controversial debut novel of ...)
The Football Factory is the controversial debut novel of author John King and is based around the adventures of a group of working-class Londoners who follow Chelsea home and away, fighting their rivals on the streets of England’s cities.
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1996
(England Away works on three levels - past, present, and f...)
England Away works on three levels - past, present, and future - as pensioner Bill Farrell remembers his war experiences in London. Tommy Johnson fights his way through Holland and Germany for an England football match in Berlin, and Harry Roberts considers the future fuelled by doses of Dutch skunk and German speed. Exploring stereotypes of language and nationalism, the primal pulls of lust and aggression, England Away culminates in a unity of the tribes and a blitzkrieg through the streets of Berlin.
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1999
(Human Punk is a novel by John King that tells the story o...)
Human Punk is a novel by John King that tells the story of a group of boys who leave school in 1977 and the effect the emerging punk movement has on their lives. The book is largely based in Slough, a new town on the outskirts of London, famed for its industry and large trading estate.
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2000
(Ruby James lives life to the full, the state-run hospital...)
Ruby James lives life to the full, the state-run hospital where she works as a nurse a microcosm of the community in which she was born and bred. While some outsiders might label the people of this town "white trash," she knows different, reveling in a vibrant society that values people over money, actions above words. For Ruby, every person is unique and has a story to tell, whether it is skinhead taxi-driver Steve, a retired teacher and rocker Pearl, magic-mushroom expert Danny Wax Cap, or former merchant seaman Ron Dawes. She encourages people to tell their tales, thrilled by the images created.
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2002
(In Skinheads, John King takes us inside skinhead culture ...)
In Skinheads, John King takes us inside skinhead culture today and explains how it never really went away. Skinheads is the story of a way of life, told through three generations of a family: Terry English, original ska-loving skinhead and boss of a mini-cab firm; Nutty Ray, street-punk skin and active football hooligan; and Lol, son of Terry, nephew of Ray, a fifteen-year-old kid just starting out. Terry is sick and not sure he’s going to make his fiftieth birthday but is kept going by his music, his lovely mod-girl assistant Angie, and his discovery of the abandoned Union Jack Club, which he decides to clean up and re-open. Ray, meanwhile, is out driving mini-cabs and struggling to control his anger; his only release - days out with Chelsea’s finest. But when he takes the law into his own hands in an explosion of righteous violence, his future starts to darken. John King’s seventh novel draws on nearly forty years of evolving British culture.
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2008
(When a boy realizes the grown-ups are killing animals and...)
When a boy realizes the grown-ups are killing animals and that he has been eating their bodies, he gives up meat. But should he share the truth and break another child's heart? As a youth, he wants to believe in the ability of words and peaceful protest to end the slaughter while struggling to resist a desire for revenge. Now a disillusioned man trying to rebuild his life, he must choose one of two paths. Acceptance means security, but those meat-industry adverts keep taunting him and some familiar insults - smelly pig, dirty cow, chick-chick-chicken - fill his head. Slaughterhouse Prayer deals in human invention and our treatment of non-human animals, the manipulation of language, and the nature of innocence. Society's pecking order is challenged as the story moves to its margins and beyond.
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2018
John King was born on January 1, 1967, in Slough, United Kingdom.
John was educated at Upton Court Grammar School.
John King has written for various fanzines and alternative publications over the years and has contributed to The New Statesman in the United Kingdom, Le Monde in France, and La Repubblica in Italy. He co-owns the independent publisher London Books and edits its London Classics list - the mission to highlight the city's forgotten/marginalized tradition of vibrant, socially-aware, working-class fiction.
The Football Factory (1996) tells the stories of Chelsea boy Tommy Johnson and British Tommy Bill Farrell, a World War II hero, and is set against a background of contemporary England, dipping into a series of related lives. Inspired by George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and its power-of-the-proles message, the book has been adapted as a play by Brighton Theatre Events and as a film by Vertigo Films. It has also appeared on the stage in Germany and Holland.
His second book Headhunters (1997) focuses on the lives of five men who form a light-hearted Sex Division, a league dedicated to female conquest. Carter is a charmer, Balti and Harry more dedicated to drinking and curries than women, Will a thinker happy to settle down, while Mango is a wide boy in a smart car, an angry character traumatized by the loss of his missing brother. The Sex Division soon fades away, the so-called sex war meaningless when matched to the on-going class war, a tit-for-tat argument, and prophetic dreams leading to a final explosion on the streets of London.
England Away (1998) is the third part of The Football Factory Trilogy, and in this novel characters from The Football Factory and Headhunters come together as they head into Europe for a football match against Germany in Berlin. Tommy Johnson narrates their passage through Amsterdam to Berlin, while back in London Bill Farrell retraces his war-time route to confront a horrific war memory, both men confronting their own demons, with very different results.
Human Punk (2000) is the first installment of The Satellite Cycle and charts the life and times of Joe Martin, a Slough scruff who is changed forever by the arrival of punk rock in his school playground. Set in 1977, 1988, and 2000, the book follows his life through the eras of fading Old Labour, rampant New Tory, and emerging New Labour governments. With a soundtrack that features everything from The Clash to Argy Bargy via King Tubbys and The Ruts, Human Punk is about the importance of informal education and the power of friendship.
White Trash (2001) records the world as seen through the eyes of Ruby James and Jonathan Jefferies, at the same time dipping into the lives of a succession of men and women who are full of wisdom yet considered worthless by the money-motivated elite. Ruby is a hard-working nurse, while Jefferies is a mysterious time-and-motion expert, a sinister presence in the corridors of the hospital where she works. White Trash reflects the clash of two opposing mentalities and is essentially a celebration of everyday life and a defense of the NHS.
Skinheads (2008) completes the lose The Satellite Cycle (which includes Human Punk and White Trash) and focuses on Terry English (original ska-loving skinhead), his nutter-nephew Nutty Ray (Oi skin and Orwell fanatic) and Terry's son Lol (a fifteen-year-old ska-punk more than happy to embrace his family heritage). The futures of Terry and Ray are threatened by dark clouds, stories from their late-60s, and early-80s youths weaving into the main narrative as they seek salvation.
(The Football Factory is the controversial debut novel of ...)
1996(Human Punk is a novel by John King that tells the story o...)
2000(Ruby James lives life to the full, the state-run hospital...)
2002(England Away works on three levels - past, present, and f...)
1999(When a boy realizes the grown-ups are killing animals and...)
2018(In Skinheads, John King takes us inside skinhead culture ...)
2008(It is sometime in the future and the individual nations o...)
216King's stories reflect his cultural interests - particularly music, pubs, and youth cultures - while challenging a range of stereotypes that are often accepted by the established political factions. Common themes are powerlessness and enemy-creation, the contradictions found in every walk of life.
