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My plan for world domination is almost complete. My first children’s novel, Mouse Noses On Toast, won the 6-8 age category in the Nestle Children’s Book Prize, and is published in the US by Penguin. My debut adult novel, Boxy an Star, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and longlisted for the Booker Prize, and is to be made into a film by photographer Rankin. My fiction has been translated into German, Italian and Russian. I write my novels in the pub on the back of a beermat. I’m now writing my fifth adult novel, New Love, and my fourth children’s novel. I’m also working on a picture book with my ex. She taught me to cook, and now we’re writing a book. Next year: the world. Email me, say hello, and tell me how you intend to thwart my plans.
“It is difficult to sum up King’s dazzlingly weird, filthy-naive writing style. His first novel, Boxy an Star, was published in 1999 to gasps of astonishment. Critics described it as ‘exceptional’, ‘maverick’, ‘scorchingly poetic’, ‘my very favourite work of fiction this year’ and ‘like some delirious encounter between PG Wodehouse and William S Burroughs’.” Katy Guest, The Independent |
B&W photo by Rankin
