In The Independent, Mat Coward wrote: "The cumulative effect of King's style, with streams of monologue, alternating between Ruby and Jeffreys, is astonishingly powerful in its detail and depth...
Skinheads (2008)[5] is set in the same landscapes as Human Punk and White Trash, and while the three books feature different characters, they effectively combine to provide an overview of forty years of British culture and politics as The Satellite Cycle.
Slaughterhouse Prayer (2018)[8] is an animal rights story based around three stages in the life of the main character, and how he responds to the meat and dairy industries as a boy, youth, and man.
King’s tenth novel, London Country (2023), develops themes from his earlier Satellite Cycle titles Human Punk, White Trash, and Skinheads.
It is set in the same areas in and around Slough, Uxbridge, and Outer London, and charts the political, social, and cultural shifts of 2015, 2017, and 2019, as experienced by those books' main characters Joe Martin, Ruby James, and Ray English.
The original focus of those books is brought forward, namely, the repetition of trauma and evolution of punk, the NHS and Spiritualist Church, the skinhead scene, and family bonds.
King has written for a range of newspapers, magazines, and fanzines over the years, and has contributed to New Statesman in the UK, la Repubblica in Italy, and Le Monde in France.
In 2020, the novella The Beasts of Brussels was published as part of The Seal Club, a three-piece collection that also includes The Providers by Irvine Welsh and Those Darker Sayings by Alan Warner.