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1974 by David Peace
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Red Riding Quartet
Jeanette 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 Ed ...Show more
1977 (#2 Red Riding Quartet) by David Peace
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Red Riding Quartet
If you thought fiction couldn't get darker than David Peace's extraordinary debut, "Nineteen Seventy Four", then think again. "Nineteen Seventy Seven", the second instalment of the "Red Riding Quartet", is one long nightmare. Its heroes - the half decent copper Bob Fraser and the burnt-out hack Jack Whi ...Show more
1980 by David Peace
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Red Riding Quartet
"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 ...Show more
1983 (#4 Red Riding quartet) by David Peace
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Red Riding Quartet
"Nineteen Eighty Three's" three intertwining story lines 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, ...Show more
GB84 by David Peace
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The 1984 miners' strike brought to vivid, painful and dramatic life by David Peace. Here he describes the entire civil war, with corruption from government to boardroom, and all the tumultuous violence, passion and dirty tricks. Review: "'We will see much discussion of the strike this year... None will ...Show more
GB84 (Revolutionary Writing) by David Peace
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Revolutionary Writing
Great Britain. 1984. The miners' strike. The government against the people. On initial publication, twenty years on from the strike, David Peace's bravura novel "GB84" was hugely acclaimed. In a bloody and dramatic fictional portrait of the year that was to leave an indelible mark on the nation's consci ...Show more
Occupied City by David Peace
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'We all know what this could be: we know it could be dysentery, we know it could be typhoid. In the "Occupied City", we all know what this could mean -' Tokyo, 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 ...Show more
Occupied City (#2 Tokyo trilogy) by David Peace
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It's Tokyo, 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, to treat anyone who might have been exposed. Clear liquid is poured into sixteen teacup ...Show more
Patient X - The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa by David Peace
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Ryunosuke Akutagawa was one of Japan's great writers - author of the stories 'Rashomon' and 'In a Bamboo Grove', most famously - who lived through Japan's turbulent Taisho period of 1912 to 1926, including the devastating 1923 Earthquake, only to take his own life at the age of just thirty-five in 1927. ...Show more
Patient X : The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa by David Peace
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Beautiful, gothic and powerfully mysterious.' ESQUIRE 'One of the most original and intriguing books you'll read this year.' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'His best to date.' DAVID MITCHELL Ryunosuke Akutagawa was one of Japan's great writers - author of the stories 'Rashomon' and 'In a Bamboo Grove', most famousl ...Show more