Kenny Emson: 2 books

Kev used to be captain of the school football team. Scored the winner in the All-Essex Schools Cup Final. He used to have a girlfriend called Lisa; she wore a fitted blazer, and lit up the playground. Ben used to get beaten up most days. He stole money from his mum’s purse to pay off Wicksy. Then...

This Must Be the Place is a play comprising two short ballads about migration, missed connections, and life on the edge of respectability. Two friends, fugitives from their problems, try and start again in the big smoke but find themselves waiting on the margins still. A man in the midst of...