Ken Champion: 6 books

‘If you’re expecting to read titles of comparative texts by well known writers littered throughout a tribute to Ken Champion, you are mistaken - he’s not that kind of writer. The author is rare amongst his peers in social and literary relevance for he can present the lost, the mistaken, the...

Ken Champion is a writer, novelist, poet and reviewer who is the author of 3 novels, 2 novellas, and this volume of short stories, as well as 2 poetry pamphlets and 2 full collections. His work has also appeared in literary journals in the US and extensively in magazines and anthologies in the UK.

This is Ken Champion’s best novel to date. Tightly written and surprising, its main character, Vincent, is one of the author’s ’ vivid working class men who, after a university education, lives a life at once rich in social observation and sense perceptions and awash with anger at a world that...

There are all the joys of Ken Champion’s writing here – a vivid depiction of time and place created with painterly skill, telling humour and characters both bound by and railing against society’s expectations. This is a world rich and busy with the banter, camaraderie and cruelty of daily life,...

Opening amongst the narrow, grimy, tree-free streets of 1930s East London where his titular hero is growing up and making sense of his world in the run-up to war, Champion brilliantly captures the claustrophobic life of work, traditional gender roles and family amongst the white working class that...

In his expansive new novel, Champion confidently strides the global stage cleverly inter-linking three lives as he reflects on relationships, work, community and what success means for people and places in the fragile, crash-and-burn economy of the 20th Century. At times angry, funny, touching and tender, THRUST is a compelling read posing huge questions that demand our full attention.’