America has dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But Japan has only begun to fight… In 1945, history has reached a turning point. A terrible new weapon has been unleashed. Japan has no choice but to surrender. But instead, the...
Sixty years after fighting in Israel's War of Independence, Yoram Kaniuk tries to remember what exactly did — and did not — happen in his time as a teenage soldier in the Palmach. The result is a touchingly poignant and hauntingly beautiful...
This is the first part of the “Red Riding Quartet”. It”s winter, 1974, and Ed Dunford’s the crime correspondent of the “Evening Post”. He didn’t know that this Christmas was going to be a season in hell. A dead little girl with a...
“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...
Buried deep below the everyday life of our society lives an underground world of nightmares—of violence and murder no one dares speak about. Contracts and laws weave the web of our culture together. Our Masters walk amongst us. They can be our...