Newly reprinted, Chubz: The Demonization of my Working Arse utilises Huw Lemmey's caustic wit to drive politics and fanfiction to the smutty edge.

YOUTH RAGE! YOUTH VIOLENCE! YOUTH ORGASMS! FEAR OF A GAY UNDERCLASS – ARMED – DANGEROUS — SICK FUCKS. Andy ‘Chubz’ Wilson is just another NEET on the street, spending his summer days sucking dick and chilling in the park, one hand on his touchscreen, the other down his pants. That is, until he meets charming left-wing journalist and cute crypto-twink Owen whilst trawling Grindr for sex. But what starts as a quick, breathless hookup ends up changing Chubz — and London — forever. Whilst Owen battles poppers-mad PM Nigel ‘Nige’ Farage, our cock-hungry comrade wages his own 'ass war', and is left wondering: just what exactly is it he’s fighting for? Socialism? Barbarism? Or just cheap kicks?

‘This book has more slippery well-satisfied arseholes in it than the state opening of parliament…Written as roughly and gleefully as an adrenaline-fueled riot—in which each brick may be as carefully hefted, considered and flung as those that make the difference to a moment, or bunged somewhere in the right direction to keep up the pace of missiles—Chubz short-circuits the hormones, events and vocabulary associated with riot to those associated with sex, making the link between one kind of convulsion and another.’ — Matthew Fuller, Mute

‘It’s smut, but it’s not just smut…If you watch the news after reading Chubz, it’s hard not to wonder about the secret desires that lurk behind the eyes of David Cameron or Ed Miliband. ways follows hotly on its heels—lurking in every interaction. It provides an easy way of asking: how might those in power be lying to us? What might they be concealing?’ — James Butler, VICE

‘What is real is what Lemmey’s getting at [in Chubz]—how absurd, how delicious it is to take two powerful white men in politics and demonize and humanize them both, remove them from their public platforms and party banners, strip them of their rehearsed slogans. Render them mere men again, Jones the object of a wanton sexual fantasy, something you know his handlers would deem ultimately lewd, and Farage the symbol of weakness and hypocrisy. Men who became not much more than political avatars rendered fictional and so more human.’ — Eva Folks, AQNB

‘Obscene, hilarious and sharp-eyed, Spitzenprodukte channels Stewart Home-meets-Alan Hollinghurst-meets-Kathy Acker realness in a startling debut of 21st century Grindr modernism, set in a familiar, dystopian political landscape dominated by poppers addict Nigel “Nige” Farage.’ — Rosie Warren, Verso Books of The Year 2014

‘Chubz takes the satirical power of fan fiction seriously. In author Huw Lemmey’s hands, the objects of political life in the UK—nativist politicians, fresh-faced left journos, rapist policemen, and council flats—are fissile material to be activated by eroticism. The protagonist, Chubz, moves through London ass-first in the summer of 2011 on the eve of an uprising driven by a mysterious new link between prostates and dead cops. The result is a hilarious and highly-charged pornographic take on the prospects of revolution today and what Owen Jones is like on Grindr.’ — The New Inquiry

‘[Chubz is] an artist; like all of us he has a taste for the extreme, likes to slum it, likes to venture into the dark heart of capital where flows are intensely bodily but invisible. He knows that the body gets poetic when it moves into these situations of such force as to exceed any possibility of commensurate response. The summer gets hotter, violence begins to gurgle from the hot cement, the air becomes humid, a storm is imminent: “Sleepless, wireless, pinned 100ft over the building sites, a mesh of bitter data, buffering social disorder, high up above the estates, amongst the England flags, my arse is transforming the atmosphere!…The city is rattled and changed, the sky bruise-purple with pure cop-hatred.”’ — Lodovico Pignatti Morano, Flash Art