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19/08/2025

Verbal 12 is now on sale.

Includes: God’s Lonely Men – Pete Haynes interview. New fiction from Jayce Bryan, Tariq Goddard, Bradford Middleton, Michael Moorcock, Walter Otton, Kevin Tosca, Jonny Wah Wah. Poetry: Koushik Banerjea. Artwork: Mark Reeve and Allan Kausch. Talking Books: Cathi Unsworth on Derek Raymond. Craig Morriss cover: George Orwell.

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14/02/2025

Verbal 11 is now on sale.

Includes: Iain Sinclair on London, city of disappearances. Fiction: Michael Moorcock, Martin Knight, Koushik Banerjea, Garry Bushell, Kenny Moore, Kevin Tosca. Talking Books / Tali Chilson – the Jewish anarchist fiction of London’s East End. Ballard & Warner, Dickens by Craig Morriss. Lyrics: Andy Town and Steve Potts.

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08/10/2024

John will be signing copies of his novel Skinheads and other works at the Cream of the Crop all-dayer in Central London next Saturday. He will also be DJing, playing 45s from his glam and punk boxes.
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Roy Ellis, Symarip: “A great novel. It is realistic, it is funny, and it should be made into a film. I am proud to be part of its soundtrack.”

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 👉

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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."

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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'...