Hudson Lamb, Bill Ripley and Liam Drake have never crossed paths – even though their dysfunctional traits are very much entrenched – they all want to make right so many wrongs and become winners for the first time. Standing in the way is an FA Cup replay, jealousy, paranoia, drugs, alcohol, bad luck, an audition for a TV gameshow and Blade Owen. Hudson Lamb Is Innocent questions identity when faced with uncertainty, but when failure threatens to prevail, can there ever be a winner? Author John King has hailed the novel as ‘a brilliant debut.’ Having founded PUSH magazine in March 2013, Joe’s literary fanzine grew into one of the most important publications of its time. Featuring working class fiction, poetry, artwork and photography that included; Joseph Ridgwell, Michael Keenaghan, Jose Arroyo, Ford Dagenham, Thurston Moore, Roddy Doyle, David Peace, Jah Wobble, John King, Youth and Linton Kwesi Johnson - the fanzine sold over 10,000 copies. The last issue was published in October 2016. At East London Press we believe in publishing writers and artists whose work reflects subculture and the local communities in which they inhabit. Joe England’s debut novel fits that criteria.