David Peace – författare

»David Peace är en säregen röst och en stor begåvning. För mig framstår Yorkshirekvartetten som någonting av det mest fascinerande som skrivits inom kriminalgenren på mycket länge. Och 1983 blir på ett sätt den naturliga höjdpunkten.« | KRISTIAN LUNDBERG»David Peace skriver så tätt och rafflande, och har sådana fantastiska personporträtt och en sådan miljöbeskrivning att man bara läser andlöst och tänker: Usch, hur ska det gå, hur ska det gå?« | YUKIKO DUKE, GOMORRON SVERIGE, SVTLeeds, maj 1983. Den tioåriga Hazel Atkins försvinner på väg hem från skolan och trots polisens officiella förnekanden anar man ett samband med andra händelser i traktens mörka historia: Jeanette Garland 1969; Susan Ridyard 1972; Clare Kemplay 1974; barn som försvunnit på liknande sätt och som aldrig återfunnits levande.Parallellt med att kriminalpolisöverintendent Maurice Jobson drar i gång sökandet efter Hazel tar Michael Myshkin - den man som fällts för de tidigare morden - tillbaka sitt erkännande i fallet Kemplay. Hans advokat, John Piggott, påbörjar nu en privat utredning, ett sökande som leder honom rakt in i det intrikata nät av lögner och korruption som Jobson och hans kollegor byggt upp.Längs slingrande vägar rör sig Piggott och Jobson obevekligt mot varandra. Och från ett tredje håll närmar sig en gestalt som till slut lösgjort sig från Yorkshires blodtyngda skuggor - barnet som försvann, men slapp undan; som överlevde och nu söker sin hämnd DAVID PEACE [f. 1967] växte upp i Yorkshire på sjuttiotalet. 1983 är den fjärde och sista boken i den hyllade kvartett kriminalromaner som fått det samlande namnet Yorkshire-kvartetten [Red Riding Quartet]. Efter att i femton år varit bosatt i Japan är David Peace sedan 2009 tillbaka i YorkshirePressröster om »Yorkshire-kvartetten«:»David Peace skriver hårdkokt och rasande, med svärtan hos en igenbommad gruva.« | SAM SUNDBERG, SVENSKA DAGBLADET»1977 är en nattsvart djupdykning i ofattbar, mänsklig ondska.« | INGALILL MOSANDER, AFTONBLADET»Yorkshirekvartetten är en läsupplevelse utöver det vanliga.« | MIKAEL R KARLSSON, BORÅS TIDNING»I 1983 finns det så mycket av spänning att det knappt går att ta in. Romanen bör nog mera läsas som ett diktverk, ett ilsket och speedat requiem över en medmänsklighet som (nästan) gått förlorad i Yorkshire och på andra håll.« | PÄR ALEXANDERSSON, DAST MAGAZINE

'Brilliant.' New York Times'Remarkable.' Irish TimesAugust 1946. One year on from surrender and Tokyo lies broken and bleeding at the feet of its American victors.Against this extraordinary historical backdrop, Tokyo Year Zero opens with the discovery of the bodies of two young women in Shiba Park. Against his wishes, Detective Minami is assigned to the case; as he gets drawn ever deeper into these complex and horrific murders, he realises that his own past and secrets are indelibly linked to those of the dead women and their killer.'A feat of prodigious and intense imagination.' The Times'A chilling tale of murder, corruption and post-war devastation.' Observer Books of the Year'Part historical stunner, part Kurosawa crime film, an original all the way.' James Ellroy

A TIMES, INDEPENDENT, FINANCIAL TIMES, AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR'A magnificent book.' MIKE ATHERTON'Tender, atmospheric - and hopeful.' iNEWS'A masterpiece.' IRISH TIMES'Electrifying.' GUARDIANFrom the author of The Damned Utd and Red or Dead, an extraordinary novel about Britain, sport and our collective past.February 6, 1958, British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on take-off at Munich Airport. On board were the young Manchester United team, 'the Busby Babes', and the journalists who followed them. Twenty-one of the passengers died instantly, four were left fighting for their lives while six more were critically injured.Munichs is the story of the crash and its aftermath, of those who survived and those who did not, of how Britain and football changed, and how it did not; a novel of tragedy, but also of hope.'Profound . . . A brilliant, brilliant book.' DAVID WHITEHOUSE'Luminous and illuminating . . . completely gripping.' ASHLEY HICKSON-LOVENCE'Powerful.' TARIQ GODDARDReaders loved Munichs:'A brilliant read that provokes so many emotions. Superbly captured the grief of a city and indeed a nation.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'A phenomenal read. It's for everyone regardless of football allegiances - totally brilliant!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'A gripping and intense from beginning to end, evoking a profound sense of heartbreak. Powerful and moving.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Astonishing. The grief, the sadness, the guilt and the turmoil. It's all here. A brilliant read.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

When Don Revie took over this club, Leeds were a rugby league town. No interest in football. Gates under 10,000. We’d never won a thing. He built one of the great clubs of English football, one of the great teams of English football, from scratch on barren ground from nothing more than spirit and fight and nous, which are the exact same qualities you used at Derby. And out of jealousy, you never tried to understand that. Never tried to make the most of that. Sad. 1974. Brian Clough, the enfant terrible of British football, tries to redeem his managerial career and reputation by winning the European Cup with his new team, Leeds United. The team he has openly despised for years, the team he hates and that hates him. Don Revie’s Leeds.A West Yorkshire Playhouse and Red Ladder Theatre Company co-production, adapted from David Peace’s ingenious and much-lauded novel, which was subsequently made into a film starring Michael Sheen, The Damned United takes you inside the tortured mind of a genius slamming up against his limits, and brings to life the beauty and brutality of football, the working man’s ballet.Anders Lustgarten's stage adaptation of David Peace's novel received its world premiere at the West Yorkshire Playhouse on 3 March 2016.

Part One of the critically acclaimed Red Riding seriesNow a Netflix series that is 'better than The Godfather' (Telegraph) - featuring a star-studded cast including Andrew Garfield, Sean Bean, Paddy Considine and Rebecca HallJeanette Garland, missing Castleford, July 1969. Susan Ridyard, missing Rochdale, March 1972. Claire Kemplay, missing Morley, since yesterday. Christmas bombs and Lord Lucan on the run, Leeds United and the Bay City Rollers, The Exorcist and It Ain't Half Hot Mum. It's winter, 1974, Yorkshire, and Eddie Dunford's got the job he wanted - crime correspondent for the Yorkshire Evening Post. He didn't know it was going to be a season in hell. A dead little girl with a swan's wings stitched into her back.In Nineteen Seventy Four, David Peace brings the passion and stylistic bravado of an Ellroy novel to this terrifyingly intense journey into a secret history of sexual obsession and greed, and starts a highly acclaimed crime series that has redefined how the genre is approached.

Part Two of the critically acclaimed Red Riding seriesNow a Netflix series that is 'better than The Godfather' (Telegraph) - featuring a star-studded cast including Andrew Garfield, Sean Bean, Paddy Considine and Rebecca HallIf you thought fiction couldn't get darker than David Peace's extraordinary debut, 1974, then think again. 1977, the second instalment of the Red Riding series, is one long nightmare. Its heroes - the half decent copper Bob Fraser and the burnt-out hack Jack Whitehead - would be considered villains in most people's books. Fraser and Whitehead have one thing in common though, they're both desperate men dangerously in love with Chapeltown prostitutes.And as the summer moves remorselessly towards the bonfires of Jubilee Night, the killings accelerate and it seems as if Fraser and Whitehead are the only men who suspect or care that there may be more than one killer at large. Out of the horror of true crime, David Peace has fashioned a work of terrible beauty. Like James Ellroy before him, David Peace tells us the true and fearsome secret history of our times.

The hugely acclaimed novel of '70s football and the turmoil of the game's most charismatic and controversial manager, from the bestselling author of GB84 and Red or Dead.One of Mike Atherton's 'Top Ten Best Sports Books' in The TimesIn 1974 the brilliant and controversial Brian Clough made perhaps his most eccentric decision: he accepted the position of Leeds United manager. A successor to Don Revie, his bitter adversary, Clough was to last just 44 days.In one of the most acclaimed British novels of recent years - subsequently made into a film starring Michael Sheen - David Peace takes us into the mind and thoughts of Ol' Big 'Ead himself, and brings vividly to life one of football's most complex and fascinating characters.

'A powerful, stirring read.' The Times'Typically brilliant . I loved it.' Adrian McKinty'The most stone-cold crime novel of 2021.' CrimeReadsTokyo, July 1949. President Shimoyama, Head of the National Railways of Japan, goes missing. American Detective Harry Sweeney leads the missing person's investigation.Fifteen years later, the city prepares for the 1964 Olympics and the global spotlight. Hideki Murota, a private investigator, is given a case which forces him to confront a crime he's been hiding from.Over twenty years on, late 1988. The Emperor Showa is dying. Donald Reichenbach, an ageing American, knows the final reckoning of the greatest mystery of the Showa Era is down to him.'I was knocked out, transported and lost in David Peace's Tokyo . an extraordinary novel.' Hideo Yokoyama'Many novels are hyped as "polyphonic", but Peace's now complete Tokyo trilogy truly is, brilliantly summoning forth multiple voices in the soundscape of a city gripped by seismic change.' Guardian, Book of the Day

'A masterpiece.' ObserverFrom the bestselling author of Munichs and The Damned Utd*Now a major production at the Royal Court, Liverpool, starring Peter Mullan*In 1959, Liverpool Football Club were in the Second Division. Liverpool Football Club had never won the FA Cup. Fifteen seasons later, Liverpool Football Club had won three League titles, two FA Cups and the UEFA Cup. Liverpool Football Club had become the most consistently successful team in England. And the most passionately supported club. Their manager was revered as a god.Destined for immortality. Their manager was Bill Shankly. His job was his life. His life was football. His football a form of socialism. Bill Shankly inspired people. Bill Shankly transformed people. The players and the supporters.His legacy would reveberate through the ages.In 1974, Liverpool Football Club and Bill Shankly stood on the verge of even greater success. In England and in Europe. But in 1974, Bill Shankly shocked Liverpool and football. Bill Shankly resigned. Bill Shankly retired. Red or Dead is the story of the rise of Liverpool Football Club and Bill Shankly. And the story of the retirement of Bill Shankly. Of one man and his work. And of the man after that work. A man in two halves. Home and away. Red or dead.

Stylish, riveting and appalling, GB84 is a shocking fictional documentation of the violence, sleaze and fraudulence that characterised Thatcher's Britain.Great Britain. 1984. The miners' strike. It is the closest Britain has come to civil war in fifty years, setting the government against the people.In his trademark visceral prose, Peace describes the insidious workings of the boardroom negotiations and the increasingly anarchic coalfield battles; the struggle for influence in government and the dwindling powers of the NUM; and the corruption, intrigue and dirty tricks which run through the whole like a fault in a seam of coal.David Peace has written a novel extraordinary in its reach, and unflinching in its capacity to recreate the brutality and passion that changed the course of British history in the late twentieth century.'A genuine British original.' Guardian'Peace is a writer of such immense talent and power . . . If Northern noir is the crime fashion of the moment, Peace is its most brilliant designer.' The Times

Ryuosuke Akutagawa was one of Japan's great writers. He lived through Japan's turbulent Taisho period, including the devastating 1923 earthquake, only to take his own life at the age of just thirty-five in 1927.Inpsired by Akutagawa's stories, essays and letters, David Peace has fashioned an extraordinary novel of tales. An intense, passionate, haunting paean to one writer, it also thrillingly explores the act of writing itself, and the role of the artist, both in public and private life, in times which darkly mirror our own.

A TIMES, INDEPENDENT, FINANCIAL TIMES, AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR'A magnificent book.' MIKE ATHERTON'Tender, atmospheric - and hopeful.' iNEWS'A masterpiece.' IRISH TIMES'Electrifying.' GUARDIANFrom the author of The Damned Utd and Red or Dead, an extraordinary novel about Britain, sport and our collective past.February 6, 1958, British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on take-off at Munich Airport. On board were the young Manchester United team, 'the Busby Babes', and the journalists who followed them. Twenty-one of the passengers died instantly, four were left fighting for their lives while six more were critically injured.Munichs is the story of the crash and its aftermath, of those who survived and those who did not, of how Britain and football changed, and how it did not; a novel of tragedy, but also of hope.'Profound . . . A brilliant, brilliant book.' DAVID WHITEHOUSE'Luminous and illuminating . . . completely gripping.' ASHLEY HICKSON-LOVENCE'Powerful.' TARIQ GODDARDReaders loved Munichs:'A brilliant read that provokes so many emotions. Superbly captured the grief of a city and indeed a nation.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'A phenomenal read. It's for everyone regardless of football allegiances - totally brilliant!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'A gripping and intense from beginning to end, evoking a profound sense of heartbreak. Powerful and moving.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Astonishing. The grief, the sadness, the guilt and the turmoil. It's all here. A brilliant read.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

This book is a critical appraisal of Eric Gill's inscriptional designs, paying particular attention to the early developments of his letter forms. The book includes indices of persons and institutions commemorated as well as the location of the inscriptions. There are also appendices on Gill's work on war memorials, heraldry nd the design of seals, medals, coins and stamps. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in lettering or letter design.

This open access book demonstrates that thinking ‘beyond binaries’ in its many forms - capitalist/socialist, men/women, interwar/post-war, east/west, normality/pathology - allows for new insights and understandings of how the intersections between medicine, gender, and sex shaped common ideas, policies, and experiences across post-war Europe. These intersections encompass gendered health discrimination, regional disparities in health outcomes, access to abortion and contraception, eugenics and racism, sex and relationship education, and the medicalisation of LGBTQIA+ identities. Each have continued to significantly influence government policies, medical practices, individual lives, and scientific ideas across Europe. The book therefore engages with important histories related to contemporary debates about reproductive rights, medical ethics, and health legislation. Gender, Sex, and Medicine in Post-War Europe brings together scholars working across disciplines and regions in both East and West Europe to shed light on how gender norms and expressions of sexuality permeated health practices, scientific ideas, medical law, and policymaking across ideological and geographical divides. As such, the volume’s contributions enhance our understanding of both individual and collective medical experiences across post-war Europe and the complex relations between doctors, patients, scientists, and law makers.By examining gender, sex, and medicine in the post-war period, this book fosters new scholarly perspectives on Europe as a continent that, to an extent, overcame the socio-political realities of the Cold War period and shared common ground through parallel experiences, policies, ideals, and beliefs.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the European Research Council.

Part Three of the critically acclaimed Red Riding seriesNow a Netflix series that is 'better than The Godfather' (Telegraph) - featuring a star-studded cast including Andrew Garfield, Sean Bean, Paddy Considine and Rebecca HallRed Riding Nineteen Eighty is set against an evolving backdrop of power, corruption and lies. The nightmare continues during the winter of 1980 when the Ripper murders his thirteenth victim and the whole of Yorkshire is terrorised. Assistant Chief Constable Hunter struggles to solve the hellish crimes and bring an end to the horror, but is drawn ever deeper into a world of bent coppers and sleaze. After his house is burned down, his wife is threatened and his colleagues turn against him, Hunter's quest becomes personal as he has nothing left to lose.Nineteen Eighty is a compelling battle between two desperate men, each determined to destroy the other. This third volume of the Red Riding Quartet displays Peace's unique voice which places him as one of the UK's finest crime writers.

Part Four of the critically acclaimed Red Riding seriesNow a Netflix series that is 'better than The Godfather' (Telegraph) - featuring a star-studded cast including Andrew Garfield, Sean Bean, Paddy Considine and Rebecca Hall1983's three intertwining storylines see the Quartet's central themes of corruption and the perversion of justice come to a head as BJ, the rent boy from Nineteen Seventy Four, the lawyer Big John Piggott - who's as near as you get to a hero in Peace's world - and Maurice Jobson, the senior cop whose career of corruption and brutality has set all this in motion, find themselves on a collision course that can only end in a terrible vengeance.1983 is an epic tale which concluded an extraordinary body of work confirming Peace as the most innovative and remarkable new British crime writer to have emerged for years.

'That's all I ask from anyone. That we try to make the people happy.'Bill Shankly had one aim: to make Liverpool Football Club invincible.As its manager from 1959, he secured the team promotion, the First Division title, the FA Cup and success in Europe. For fifteen years, he defined what it was to be a Liverpool fan, and demanded total loyalty from his players and coaches. A loyalty that Bill hoped would be repaid when he retired...David Peace's iconic novel Red or Dead is the fictionalised story of a game, a life, and a man of two halves. This stage version was adapted and directed by Phillip Breen, and first performed at Liverpool's Royal Court in 2025, with a cast including Peter Mullan as Bill Shankly.The novel was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and has been widely acclaimed:'David Peace brings perfect pitch to this ode to Bill Shankly's Liverpool reign' Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Observer'A love letter to a great manager, an elegy to the beautiful game' Independent'So hypnotic that even the football-averse might enjoy it' Guardian

Det är sommar i Leeds och hela stan är förväntansfull inför jubileumsfirandet av drottnings Elisabeths regeringstid.Kriminalinspektör Bob Fraser och Jack Whitehead, som är reporter på The Post, har dock andra saker att tänka på främst det faktum att någon rör sig på stadens gator och mördar prostituerade. Mördaren får snabbt smeknamnet »Yorkshire Ripper« och både Fraser och Whitehead arbetar oförtröttligt, var och en på sitt sätt, för att få fast honom.Undersökningarna tar en obehaglig vändning när de båda två inleder affärer med de prostituerade det är meningen att de ska beskydda.I takt med att sommaren fortskrider accelererar antalet mord - och Fraser och Whitehead verkar vara de enda som misstänker att mer än en mördare kan vara i farten.DAVID PEACE [f. 1967] växte upp i Yorkshire på sjuttiotalet. 1977 är den andra boken i den kvartett kriminalromaner som fått det samlande namnet Yorkshire-kvartetten [Red Riding Quartet]. Efter att ha varit bosatt i Japan i femton år är David Peace sedan 2009 tillbaka i Yorkshire.Svenska pressröster om 1974, den första delen i Yorkshire-kvartetten:»David Peace skriver så tätt och rafflande, och har sådana fantastiska personporträtt och en sådan miljöbeskrivning att man bara läser andlöst och tänker: usch, hur ska det gå, hur ska det gå?« YUKIKO DUKE, GOMORRON SVERIGE, SVT»David Peace skriver hårdkokt och rasande, med svärtan hos en igenbommad gruva. Och Rebecca Alsberg har gjort ett strålande jobb med översättningen. Så snart jag hämtat andan är jag redo att dyka ner i 1977, nästa installation i en kvartett som fått en kraftfull, infernaliskt gnistrande start.« SAM SUNDBERG, SVENSKA DAGBLADET»Den märkligaste, mest personliga och bästa nya deckarförfattaren från England.« BENGT ERIKSSON, KRISTIANSTADSBLADET»Flera gånger när jag läser 1974 så tänker jag: Bra, bra, bra! Skit och guld blandas, hopp och hopplöshet avlöser varandra. Jag slungas fram och tillbaka, jag hänger på - och längtar. Mer, mer, mer!« STIG HANSÉN, HELSINGBORGS DAGBLAD»1974 är en fullkomligt lysande roman. Jag ser med mycket stor förväntan fram emot nästa del i Yorkshirekvartetten.« ANDERS WENNBERG, GEFLE DAGBLAD

Vintern 1980. The Yorkshire Ripper har just skördat sitt trettonde offer. Tretton till mördaren, noll till polisen.När allmänhetens ilska växer skickas assisterande polischef Peter Hunter för att ta över utredningen. Skjutningarna i Strafford har förblivit olösta, och morden under jubileumssommaren 1977 tillskrivs fortfarande The Yorkshire Ripper.Men Hunter förstår snart att allt inte är som det verkar och att polisen är mer djupt involverad i morden än någon kunde ha föreställt sig. Jack Whitehead, ensam och galen på en psykiatrisk klinik efter att med hammare och spik ha försökt fördriva demonerna ur sitt huvud, tycks hålla i nyckeln.Vilken är kopplingen mellan The Yorkshire Ripper och denna nya våldsvåg? Och vad kommer att ske när dessa mäns olika helveten kolliderar?DAVID PEACE [f. 1967] växte upp i Yorkshire på sjuttiotalet. 1980 är den tredje boken i den hyllade kvartett kriminalromaner som fått det samlande namnet Yorkshire-kvartetten. [Red Riding Quartet]. Efter att ha varit bosatt i Japan i femton år är David Peace sedan 2009 tillbaka i Yorkshire.Svenska pressröster om »1974«:»David Peace skriver så tätt och rafflande, och har sådana fantastiska personporträtt och en sådan miljöbeskrivning att man bara läser andlöst och tänker: usch, hur ska det gå, hur ska det gå?« YUKIKO DUKE, GOMORRON SVERIGE, SVT»David Peace skriver hårdkokt och rasande, med svärtan hos en igenbommad gruva. Så snart jag hämtat andan är jag redo att dyka ner i 1977, nästa installation i en kvartett som fått en kraftfull, infernaliskt gnistrande start.« SAM SUNDBERG, SVENSKA DAGBLADET»Den märkligaste, mest personliga och bästa nya deckarförfattaren från England.« BENGT ERIKSSON, KRISTIANSTADSBLADET

A TIMES, INDEPENDENT, FINANCIAL TIMES, AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR'A magnificent book.' MIKE ATHERTON'Tender, atmospheric - and hopeful.' iNEWS'A masterpiece.' IRISH TIMES'Electrifying.' GUARDIANFrom the author of The Damned Utd and Red or Dead, an extraordinary novel about Britain, sport and our collective past.February 6, 1958, British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on take-off at Munich Airport. On board were the young Manchester United team, 'the Busby Babes', and the journalists who followed them. Twenty-one of the passengers died instantly, four were left fighting for their lives while six more were critically injured.Munichs is the story of the crash and its aftermath, of those who survived and those who did not, of how Britain and football changed, and how it did not; a novel of tragedy, but also of hope.'Profound . . . A brilliant, brilliant book.' DAVID WHITEHOUSE'Luminous and illuminating . . . completely gripping.' ASHLEY HICKSON-LOVENCE'Powerful.' TARIQ GODDARDReaders loved Munichs:'A brilliant read that provokes so many emotions. Superbly captured the grief of a city and indeed a nation.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'A phenomenal read. It's for everyone regardless of football allegiances - totally brilliant!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'A gripping and intense from beginning to end, evoking a profound sense of heartbreak. Powerful and moving.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Astonishing. The grief, the sadness, the guilt and the turmoil. It's all here. A brilliant read.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐