David (Author) Peace Forfatter
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Patient X: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Ryuosuke Akutagawa was one of Japan's great writers. He lived through Japan's turbulent Taisho period, including the devastating 1923 earthquake, only to... Læs mere
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Tokyo Redux (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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
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Munichs: 'Absolutely gripping.' The Times, 'Best books of 2024' (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
From the acclaimed and prize-winning author of The Damned Utd and Red or Dead comes another extraordinary novel about Britain, sport and the formative scars of our collective past.
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GB84: The classic novel about the miners' strike (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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. This book presents a fictional documentation of the violence, sleaze and fraudulence that characterised Thatcher's Britain.
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Tokyo Year Zero (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
August 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.
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Occupied City (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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... Læs mere
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The Damned Utd (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In 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.
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Red or Dead (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
'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.
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