David Peace

Jeanette Garland, missing Castleford, July 1969. Susan Ridyard, missing Rochdale, March 1972. Claire Kemplay, missing Morley, since yesterday....

In 1974 the brilliant and controversial Brian Clough made perhaps his most eccentric decision: he accepted the Leeds United Manager's job....

These 12 connected tales evoke the life of the Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, whose short story "In the Grove" served as an inspiration for the film Rashōmon, and whose narrative use of multiple perspectives and different versions of a single event influenced generations....

In 1958, Manchester United was flying high: the best-known soccer team in the world and reigning English champions. But on a snowy afternoon that February, a plane carrying the team back from a European Cup match crashed on takeoff in Munich, killing twenty-three people.

The fourth and Final Instalment in the Red Riding Quartet. With Nineteen Eighty Three, David Peace completes the Red Riding Quartet, an astonishing, sustained epic....

Tokyo, July 1949. The president of the National Railways of Japan vanishes. As American and Japanese investigators scrambled for answers, the case went cold - and remains unsolved. David Peace channels drama, research, and intrigue into this strikingly intelligent fictionalization....

If you thought fiction couldn't get darker than then think again. Nineteen Seventy Seven, the second instalment of the Red Riding Quartet, is one long nightmare.....

Detective Minami of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, narrates the riveting, complex story of the hunt for Kodaira Yoshio - known as the Japanese Bluebeard....

The nightmare continues during the winter of 1980 when the Ripper murders his 13th victim and the whole of Yorkshire is terrorised....

January 26, 1948, a public health official arrives at a branch of the Teikoku Bank in Tokyo....

Tokyo, 5 luglio 1949. Sadanori Shimoyama, il presidente delle Ferrovie giapponesi incaricato di licenziare migliaia di lavoratori...

Tokyo, 26 gennaio 1948. Un uomo entra in una filiale della banca Teikoku e dice di essere un medico incaricato di vaccinare il personale a causa di un'epidemia di dissenteria...

These are the stories of Patient X in one of our iron castles. He will tell his tales to anyone with the ears and the time to listen....

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.