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

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

'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.

It''s August 1946—one year after the Japanese surrender—and women are turning up dead all over Tokyo. Detective Minami of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police—irreverent, angry, despairing—goes on the hunt for a killer known as the Japanese Bluebeard—a decorated former Imperial soldier who raped and murdered at least ten women amidst the turmoil of post-war Tokyo. As he undertakes the case, Minami is haunted by his own memories of atrocities that he can no longer explain or forgive. Unblinking in its vision of a nation in a chaotic, hellish period in its history, Tokyo Year Zero is a darkly lyrical and stunningly original crime novel.

A fierce, exquisitely dark novel that plunges us into post–World War II Occupied Japan in a Rashomon-like retelling of a mass poisoning (based on an actual event), its aftermath, and the hidden wartime atrocities that led to the crime.On January 26, 1948, a man identifying himself as a public health official arrives at a bank in Tokyo. There has been an outbreak of dysentery in the neighborhood, he explains, and he has been assigned by Occupation authorities to treat everyone who might have been exposed to the disease. Soon after drinking the medicine he administers, twelve employees are dead, four are unconscious, and the “official” has fled . . . Twelve voices tell the story of the murder from different perspectives. One of the victims speaks, for all the victims, from the grave. We read the increasingly mad notes of one of the case detectives, the desperate letters of an American occupier, the testimony of a traumatized survivor. We meet a journalist, a gangster-turned-businessman, an “occult detective,” a Soviet soldier, a well-known painter. Each voice enlarges and deepens the portrait of a city and a people making their way out of a war-induced hell. Occupied City immerses us in an extreme time and place with a brilliantly idiosyncratic, expressionistic, mesmerizing narrative. It is a stunningly audacious work of fiction from a singular writer.

The acclaimed author of Occupied City, Tokyo Year Zero, and the Red Riding Quartet now gives us a stunning work of fiction in twelve connected tales that take up the strange, brief life of the brilliant twentieth-century Japanese writer, Ryunosuke Akutagawa.Haunting and evocative, brutal and surreal, these twelve connected tales evoke the life of the Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) whose short story, "In the Grove" served as an inspiration for Kurosawa''s famous film Rashōmon; and whose narrative use of multiple perspectives and different versions of a single event influenced generations of storytellers. Writing out of his own obsession with Akutagawa, David Peace delves into the known facts and events of the writer''s life and inner world--birth to a mother who was mentally ill and a father who died shortly thereafter; his own battles with mental illness; his complicated reaction to the beginnings of modernization and Westernization of Japan; his short but prolific writing career; his suicide at the age of 35--and creates a stunningly atmospheric and deeply moving fiction that tells its own story of a singularly brilliant mind.

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

'Extraordinary.' New York Times'Savagely beautiful.' The TimesTokyo, January 26th, 1948. As the third year of the US Occupation of Japan begins, a man enters a downtown bank. He speaks of an outbreak of dysentery and says he is a doctor, sent by the Occupation authorities. Clear liquid is poured into sixteen teacups. Sixteen employees of the bank drink this liquid according to strict instructions. Within minutes twelve of them are dead, the other four unconscious. The man disappears along with some, but not all, of the bank's money. And so begins the biggest manhunt in Japanese history.In Occupied City, David Peace dramatises and explores the rumours of complicity, conspiracy and cover-up that surround the chilling case of the Teikoku Bank Massacre.'Marvellous.' Daily Telegraph'Genuinely hypnotic.' Harper's Magazine

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 Leeds United manager's job. As successor to Don Revie, his bitter adversary, he was to last only 44 days. In one of the most acclaimed novels of this or any other year, David Peace takes us into the mind and thoughts of Ol'Big'Ead himself, and brings vividly to life one of post-war Britain's most complex and fascinating characters.

'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

'Extraordinary.' New York Times'Savagely beautiful.' The TimesTokyo, January 26th, 1948. As the third year of the US Occupation of Japan begins, a man enters a downtown bank. He speaks of an outbreak of dysentery and says he is a doctor, sent by the Occupation authorities. Clear liquid is poured into sixteen teacups. Sixteen employees of the bank drink this liquid according to strict instructions. Within minutes twelve of them are dead, the other four unconscious. The man disappears along with some, but not all, of the bank's money. And so begins the biggest manhunt in Japanese history.In Occupied City, David Peace dramatises and explores the rumours of complicity, conspiracy and cover-up that surround the chilling case of the Teikoku Bank Massacre.'Marvellous.' Daily Telegraph'Genuinely hypnotic.' Harper's Magazine

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

'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.

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

The Occupation had a hangover, but still the Occupation went to work.Tokyo, July 1949, President Shimoyama, Head of the National Railways of Japan, goes missing just a day after serving notice of 30,000 job losses. In the midst of the US Occupation, against the backdrop of widespread social, political and economic reforms - as tensions and confusion reign - American Detective Harry Sweeney leads the missing person's investigation for General MacArthur's GHQ.Some men go mad, some men go missing .Fifteen years later and Tokyo is booming. As the city prepares for the 1964 Olympics and the global spotlight, Hideki Murota, a former policeman during the Occupation period, and now a private investigator, is given a case which forces him to go back to confront a time, a place and a crime he's been hiding from for the past fifteen years. Some men do both .Over twenty years later, in the autumn and winter of 1988, as the Emperor Showa is dying, Donald Reichenbach, an aging American, eking out a living teaching and translating, sits drinking by the Shinobazu Pond in Ueno, knowing the final reckoning of the greatest mystery of the Showa Era is down to him.