David Peace Livres

Après Jeanette Garland et Susan Ridyard, la jeune Clare Kemplay vient de disparaître sur le chemin de l’école. Son cadavre sera bientôt retrouvé dans une tranchée sur un chantier. Nous sommes en 1974, dans la région de Leeds. Noël approche. Edward Dunford, reporter à l’Evening Post, est encore un néophyte qui fait ses premières armes dans l’ombre du journaliste vedette de la rédaction, Jack Whitehead. Au volant de la vieille voiture de son père, il sillonne les routes de l’Ouest du Yorkshire à la recherche d’indices susceptibles d’éclairer les meurtres de ces trois fillettes. Au début, il croit seulement chasser le scoop, mais plus il enquête, plus il découvre que bien des choses sont pourries au royaume du Yorkshire: policiers corrompus, entrepreneurs véreux, élus complices… Depuis ce premier volume de la tétralogie que David Peace a consacrée au Yorkshire, la réputation de l’auteur n’a cessé de grandir. Dès la parution de 1974, la presse avait été quasi unanime :"On ne saurait échapper à la musique d’une telle douleur", lisait-on dans le New York Times, tandis que Michel Abescat parlait dans Télérama d’un "requiem bouleversant d’humanité et de compassion".

Août 1945. Tokyo est en ruines, les habitants se cachent dans des abris, et l'empereur s'apprête à signer la capitulation. Dans ce contexte apocalyptique, une dépêche concernant un corps de femme trouvé dans un dépôt militaire passe inaperçue. L'inspecteur Minami est chargé de l'enlèvement du cadavre, ignorant que cette découverte n'est que le début. Un an plus tard, le 15 août 1946, un nouveau corps de femme est découvert dans le parc de Shiba. Une jeune fille d'une vingtaine d'années, avec un morceau de tissu rouge autour du cou, gît au milieu d'une clairière. Minami, dépêché sur les lieux, fait des constatations et découvre un second corps, presque squelettique. Cette affaire devient pour lui une quête personnelle, une recherche de son identité perdue dans le chaos de la guerre. Premier volume d'un cycle sur Tokyo après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, ce roman s'inspire d'un fait divers criminel et se transforme en un thriller captivant. David Peace présente une fresque ambitieuse sur la naissance du Japon moderne, explorant les thèmes de la mort et de la culpabilité dans une "année zéro" marquée par la défaite et la nécessité de reconstruire.

JUMP INTO THE DRIVER'S SEAT TO ENTER A WORLD OF IMAGINATIVE PLAY!   With this new and innovative picture books series, children can race a fire engine to the rescue, build a house with a digger, and climb aboard a tractor to help out on the farm! Vehicle drivers on a building site have a very important job. They are in charge of the big machines that mix, dig, and lift. Now, it's your turn to be the driver!  I'm the Digger Driver puts the reader in charge with a dashboard design across the bottom of each page—children will love using their imagination to pretend to use the vehicle’s controls. The narrative is embedded with key early learning concepts, and each book ends with a sense of achievement as the task is completed. •    Inspires imaginative play and builds self-confidence by putting children in charge. •    Encourages problem-solving and teamwork, as well as recognition of colors, shapes and numbers. •    Children will love making their own sound effects, acting out real-life situations and spotting their favorite vehicles.

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The third novel in David Peace's acclaimed Red Riding Quartet sees Yorkshire terrorised by the Ripper while the corrupt police familiar from Nineteen Seventy Four and Nineteen Seventy Seven continue to prosper. Weaving his own extraordinary fiction around the terrible history of the time, David Peace has once again produced a thriller that goes above and beyond the limits of the genre to provide a powerful portrait of a time and a place gone very wrong.

"In 1974 the brilliant and controversial Brian Clough made perhaps his most eccentric decision: he accepted the Leeds United manager's job. He was to last only forty-four days. In one of the most loved and acclaimed novels of the last decade, David Peace takes us into the mind and thoughts of one of Britain's most notorious and fascinating characters."--Jacket.

**AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW**'Peace writes the boldest and most original British fiction of his generation.'RICHARD LLOYD PARRY, NEW YORK TIMES'Hypnotic.' GUARDIAN, on Red or Dead'Probably the best novel ever written about sport.' THE TIMES, on The Damned UtdFrom the author of[Bokinfo].

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.

The thoughtful stories featured in this collection capture the soul of the city of Leeds by tracing the unique contours of 50 years of social and economic change. In one story the Millgarth Police Station reverberates with the early adrenaline rush of a case they won’t close for years. Another tells of a teenage boy who trails the city center bars of the 1980s in thrall to his hero, a Leeds United football hooligan. Despite being products of their time, these stories remain distinct from the larger events and wider currents that have shaped the cultural landscape of today’s Leeds, a modern city with both problems and promise. Featured authors include Tony Harrison, Jeremy Dyson, Shamshad Khan, Ian Duhig, David Peace, Susan Everett, M. Y. Alam, Andrea Semple, Martyn Bedford, and Tom Palmer.

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 noir nightmare. Its heroes - the half decent copper Bof 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 whores. 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.

The intertwining storylines see the Red Riding Quartet's central themes of corruption and the perversion of justice come to a head as BJ the rent boy, lawyer Big John Piggott, and cop Maurice Oldfield, find themselves on a collision course that can only end in terrible vengeance.

'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.

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

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 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: of the man who was convicted of the crime, of the legacy of biological warfare programmes, and of the victims and survivors themselves.

David Peace was born in Ossett, West Yorkshire, U.K. in 1967. He currently lives in Tokyo. In 2003, Granta named him as one of its Best of Young British Novelists. The Red Riding Quartet - Nineteen Seventy Four, Nineteen Seventy Seven, Nineteen Eighty and Nineteen Eighty Three - chronicles in muscular and compulsive prose the sordidness of crime, corruption and murder amidst the fear and confusion of the Yorkshire Ripper killings.

Today you're the fire engine driver! Enter a world of imaginative play and build early learning skills. Children will love using their imagination to pretend to use the fire engine's controls to switch on the siren and turn on the flashing lights! Encourages problem solving and teamwork, as well as recognition of colours, shapes, and numbers.

Diciembre de 1980. El Destripador ha matado ya a trece mujeres. Ante la inefectividad de la policía de West Yorkshire, el Ministerio del Interior crea una superbrigada para asesorarla, pero en realidad también para vigilarla. Peter Hunter, comisario jefe del Gran Manchester, es enviado a Leeds al frente de un nuevo equipo de investigadores. No puede decirse que reciban una cordial bienvenida. Hunter ya había estado en West Yorkshire en dos ocasiones, para esclarecer –sin éxito– algunos casos en los que estaban involucrados algunos miembros de la policía. La matanza del pub Strafford (1974) y la red de pornografía y corrupción policial de Bradford (1977) reaparecen aquí extrañamente conectadas con los asesinatos del Destripador… y son causa de nuevos y horrendos crímenes. 1980 confirma el pulso y la originalidad narrativa de David Peace. Esta tercera novela del Red Riding Quartet prosigue su búsqueda a través de una trama infernal cada vez más peligrosamente próxima a su resolución.

Con una brillante y sórdida exposición de los hechos, Peace nos traslada adelante y atrás en el tiempo, entre 1983 y los acontecimientos narrados en 1974, 1977 y 1980, y nos ofrece las respuestas a los interrogantes de estas novelas en una trama envuelta en un clima de desasosiego y soledad. Monólogos interiores, escritura entrecortada y diálogos sombríos reproducen los crímenes del Destripador de Yorkshire en un paisaje atormentado y sin futuro.