David Peace Livres

Août 1945. Tokyo n'est plus que ruines. Les immeubles sont éventrés, les canalisations ont explosé, les habitants se sont réfugiés dans des abris de fortune, l'empereur va signer la capitulation. Dans cette atmosphère de fin du monde, l'arrivée d'une dépêche au bureau de la Première Division criminelle passe presque inaperçue. Qui s'intéresse à la présence d'un corps de femme dans un dépôt de vêtements de l'armée ? L'inspecteur Minami se charge de l'enlèvement du cadavre. Ce qu'il ne sait pas encore, c'est que cette macabre découverte n'est qu'un prélude. Un an plus tard, les jeeps des Vainqueurs sillonnent la capitale d'un pays toujours exsangue. Le 15 août 46, un cadavre de femme est signalé dans le parc de Shiba. Au cœur d'une clairière, gît une jeune fille âgée d'une vingtaine d'années ; un morceau de tissu rouge lui enserre le cou. Dépêché sur les lieux, Minami fait les premières constatations et ne tarde pas à découvrir un second corps, presque réduit à l'état de squelette. C'est le début d'une affaire qui, pour l'inspecteur, prend aussi la forme d'une quête de sa propre identité, perdue dans le désastre de la guerre. Premier volume d'un cycle consacré à la ville de Tokyo après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, ce roman s'inspire d'un fait divers criminel. Pour David Peace, c'est le point de départ d'un thriller palpitant, saisissant, où l'on croise les pas d'un homme hanté par la mort et la culpabilité. Cette " année zéro ", c'est aussi celle de la défaite, la table rase à partir de laquelle il faudra tout reconstruire. En ce sens, David Peace, plus ambitieux et visionnaire que jamais, nous propose une superbe fresque sur la naissance du Japon moderne.

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.

Written by world-leading fertility experts and edited by mums who have undertaken multiple cycles of IVF and know what it takes to succeed, this guide advises you on the entire IVF process and how to maximise your chances of success. All IVF topics are covered, from how to choose your fertility clinic, to understanding the stages of an IVF cycle, to how to prepare yourself physically and emotionally for the treatment. Looks at how to optimise your nutrition and how to improve egg and sperm quality Examines the growing trends of egg freezing and donor-assisted IVF Shares real-life stories of a variety of IVF journeys and their inspiring outcomes Includes key contributions from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), the UK's independent regulator for fertility treatment and researchIVF: All You Need to Know is an essential handbook for couples and individuals who are considering IVF, who want to find out what's involved, and who want to be as well prepared as they can be. It is also for those who may have already tried IVF, have experienced failed cycles and want to boost their chances of success next time around.

What happens when you are finally given the perfect man, only to discover that perfect can get a little old?

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.

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 senior cop whose career of corruption and brutality has set all this in motion, find themselves on a collision course that can only end in a terrible vengeance.Nineteen Eighty Three is an epic tale which concluded an extraordinary body of work confirming Peace as the most innovative and remarkable new British crime writer to have emerged for years.

When Don Revie took over this club, Leeds were a rugby league town. No interest in football. Gates under 10,000. We'd never won a thing. He built one of the great clubs of English football, one of the great teams of English football, from scratch on barren ground from nothing more than spirit and fight and nous, which are the exact same qualities you used at Derby. And out of jealousy, you never tried to understand that. Never tried to make the most of that. Sad. 1974. Brian Clough, the enfant terrible of British football, tries to redeem his managerial career and reputation by winning the European Cup with his new team, Leeds United. The team he has openly despised for years, the team he hates and that hates him. Don Revie's Leeds. A West Yorkshire Playhouse and Red Ladder Theatre Company co-production, adapted from David Peace's ingenious and much-lauded novel, which was subsequently made into a film starring Michael Sheen, The Damned United takes you inside the tortured mind of a genius slamming up against his limits, and brings to life the beauty and brutality of football, the working man's ballet. Anders Lustgarten's stage adaptation of David Peace's novel received its world premiere at the West Yorkshire Playhouse on 3 March 2016.

An intense journey into a secret history of sexual obsession and greed.

Continuing the narrative begun with Nineteen Seventy-Four and Nineteen Seventy-Seven, this electrifying third installment of David Peace’s Red Riding Quartet demonstrates a skill that goes above and beyond the limits of the genre. While Yorkshire is terrorized by the Ripper, the corrupt police continue to prosper. To give the case some new life, Peter Hunter, a “clean” cop from nearby Manchester, is brought in to offer a fresh perspective. As he goes about setting up a new case under the radar, he suffers the same fate as those who previously attempted to get in the way of the Ripper: his house is burned down, his wife threatened. But he soldiers on. And as he comes face to face with unthinkable evil, Hunter struggles to maintain his reputation, his sanity, and his life.