For fifteen-year-old Martin, the summer of 1977 means punk rock, reggae music, disco girls, stolen cars, and a job picking cherries with the gypsies. Life is sweetuntil he is beaten up and thrown in the Grand Union Canal with his best mate Smiles. Fast forward to 1988, and Joe is travelling home on the Trans-Siberian express after three years working in a Hong Kong bar, remembering the highs and lows of the intervening years as he comes to terms with catastrophe. Fast forward to 2000, and Joe is happy. Life is sweet againuntil a face from the past forces him to re-live that night in 1977 and...
For fifteen-year-old Martin, the summer of 1977 means punk rock, reggae music, disco girls, stolen cars, and a job picking cherries with the gypsies. ...
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...
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...
Breaking through the heavy media cloud of anorexic pin-ups and paedophile fashion, this story contains a missing brother, prophetic visions, a love affair, and a confrontation revealing the men behind machismo and their need for mutual respect.
Breaking through the heavy media cloud of anorexic pin-ups and paedophile fashion, this story contains a missing brother, prophetic visions, a love af...
This third novel in the trilogy that began with The Football Factory looks at notions of what it means to be English abroad. King explores stereotypes of language and nationalism, as he writes about sex and violence abroad, under the Union Jack.
This third novel in the trilogy that began with The Football Factory looks at notions of what it means to be English abroad. King explores stereotypes...
Specially-commissioned essays analyze Latin American history, politics, art and literature from the nineteenth century to the present and reveal the common heritage of pre-Columbian and colonial Latin America. Although the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking states created in the early 1820s differed greatly geographically and demographically (in ethnic composition and economic resources), they also shared distinct historical and cultural traits. A chronology and guide to further reading make this volume an invaluable introduction to the rich and varied culture of modern Latin America.
Specially-commissioned essays analyze Latin American history, politics, art and literature from the nineteenth century to the present and reveal the c...
