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GB84 by David Peace
$28.00 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers
The 1984 miners' strike brought to vivid, painful and dramatic life by David Peace. Here he describes the entire civil war, with corruption from government to boardroom, and all the tumultuous violence, passion and dirty tricks. Review: "'We will see much discussion of the strike this year... None will ...Show more
GB84 (Revolutionary Writing) by David Peace
$18.99 NZD
Category: 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
$38.99 NZD
Category: 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: Crime & Thrillers
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
$32.99 NZD
Category: 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
Patient X - The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa by David Peace
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Ryunosuke Akutagawa was one of Japan's great writers - author of the stories 'Rashomon' and 'In a Bamboo Grove', most famously - who lived through Japan's turbulent Taisho period of 1912 to 1926, including the devastating 1923 Earthquake, only to take his own life at the age of just thirty-five in 1927. ...Show more
Red or Dead by David Peace
$24.99 NZD
$35.00 (28% off)
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
$36.99 NZD
Category: 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
The Damned UTD by David Peace
$32.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Overachieving and eccentric football manager Brian Clough was on his way to take over at the country's most successful, and most reviled, football club: Leeds United, home to a generation of fiercely competitive but ageing players. The battle he'd face there would make or break the club - or him. David ...Show more
The Damned Utd by David Peace
$39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Boxing Day, 1962. A frozen pitch at Roker Park and the painful premature end to a career as one of football's most deadly marksmen. At twenty-eight, 251 league goals in 274 appearances. For Sunderland and Middlesbrough. How is a man to make a living? How is a man to live? Yorkshire, 1974. Leeds United ...Show more
The Damned Utd by David Peace
$28.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Overachieving and eccentric football manager Brian Clough was on his way to take over at the country's most successful, and most reviled football club: Leeds United, home to a generation of fiercely competitive but ageing players. The battle he'd face there would make or break the club - or him. David P ...Show more
Tokyo Redux by David Peace
$32.99 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers | Reading Level: very good
A novel about one of history's great unsolved mysteries, by Britain's most original writer.