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GB84 (Revolutionary Writing) by David Peace
$19.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ 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
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ 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
$33.00 NZD
Category: World 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
Red Riding Nineteen Eighty by David Peace
$23.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Series: The\Red Riding Quartet Ser.
Red 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 a ...Show more
Red Riding Nineteen Eighty Three by David Peace
$23.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Series: The\Red Riding Quartet Ser.
Nineteen Eighty Three'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 se ...Show more
Red Riding Nineteen Seventy Four by David Peace
$23.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics Ser.
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 Eddie ...Show more
Red Riding Nineteen Seventy Seven by David Peace
$23.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Series: The\Red Riding Quartet Ser.
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 Whitehead ...Show more
Red or Dead by David Peace
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
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. A ...Show more
Red or Dead by David Peace
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
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. A ...Show more
Tokyo Redux by David Peace
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A novel about one of history's great unsolved mysteries, by Britain's most original writer.
Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
This book is set in 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. Against his wishes, Detective Min ...Show more
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