Out Now: Hunger Anthology From Urban Pigs Press

“The Hogg family like to trawl Torquay for wet-brains, street-drinkers, and illegal immigrants. Hopeless men with livid scar tissue in unpleasant places. They would search as far down as the Hope-and-Grope, past Factory Row, up to Castle Circus and the abandoned Jobcentre Plus building, and on into Torre.”

Today is the publication day for Hunger, a charity anthology released by Urban Pigs Press. The collection includes 23 short stories, one of which is my contribution: ‘In the Land of the Pig (The Butcher is King)’.

It’s a new and exclusive Joe Rey story, which finds your favourite anti-hero at rock bottom, sleeping in a decrepit caravan and performing menial tasks for the sadistic Hogg family.

The book – which has been edited by James Jenkins and Bam Barrow – is raising money for FIND (Families in Need), so if you have a few spare quid please consider buying a copy.

In case you missed it, I was interviewed about my contribution here.

And I returned the favour by interrogating James and Bam here.

Buy Hunger here: (UK) or (US)!

Tom Leins Interview @ Urban Pigs Press

“Who would have thought a queasy cabal of millionaires and billionaires would fuck a country in such a dead-eyed, remorseless fashion?”

This Thursday will see the release of Hunger, a brand new charity anthology from Ipswich-based independent publisher Urban Pigs Press. The collection includes my story ‘In the Land of the Pig (The Butcher is King)’.

I’ll be sharing more details regarding the anthology later this week, but in the meantime you can check out this interview I did with Urban Pigs Press co-founder James Jenkins to promote the anthology.