Daren King is a star of the new school of British countercultural prose, author of the cult trilogy Jim the Giraffe, Little Star and Box (Guardian Award 1999) and Tom Stwoler. Critics call him “the most expressive voice of a generation” and compared to Irvine Welsh, namesake Danny King and Roddy Doyle.

Life is HELL. But teenagers from the London “bottom” don’t know this - for the simple reason that they were BORN in this hell - and hang around in its circles as if at home. THERE IS NO FUTURE. But the Romeo and Juliet of punk culture DO NOT CARE about this. Because they, always rushing about in pursuit of new sensations, do not know at all WHAT THE FUTURE IS. Sometimes it’s scary. And sometimes it’s VERY FUNNY! “Daren King gave a voice to the third wave of English punk, and that voice sounds like a voice crying in the desert in the Sex Pistols arrangement!” Christina Patterson, “Observer” “This book WILL BREAK YOUR WORLD INTO SMARTS - and then put it all together fragments world NEW!" Julie Myerson, "Independent" "A language that has not been seen since the early days of Irvine Welsh. A style comparable only to early William Burroughs!” Nicholas Blincoe, Guardian