“Peace’s policemen rape prostitutes they are meant to be protecting, torture suspects they know cannot be guilty and reap the profits of organized vice. Peace’s powerful novel exposes a side of life which most of us would prefer to ignore.”...
“David Peace is the future of crime fiction… A fantastic talent.” – Ian Rankin
“[David Peace is] transforming the genre with passion and style.” – George Pelecanos
“Peace has single-handedly established the genre of Yorkshire Noir,...
“Peace is a manic James Joyce of the crime novel… invoking the horror of grim lives, grim crimes, and grim times.” – Sleazenation
“[Peace] exposes a side of life which most of us would prefer to ignore.” – Daily Mail
“David Peace is...
The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic of "negative utopia" -a startlingly original and haunting novel...
1984 is a political and dystopian science-fiction novel set in Airstrip One, a province of the superstate Oceania. It is a mind-numbing world which in a state of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation. Dictated...