David Peace

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David Peace was born in 1967 and grew up in Ossett, near Wakefield. He left Manchester Polytechnic in 1991, and went to Istanbul to teach English. In 1994 he took up a teaching post in Tokyo and now lives there with his family.

His formative years were shadowed by the activities of the Yorkshire Ripper, and this had a profound influence on him which led to a strong interest in crime. His quartet of Red Riding books grew from this obsession with the dark side of Yorkshire. These are powerful novels of crime and police corruption, using the Yorkshire Ripper as their basis and inspiration. They are entitled Nineteen Seventy-Four (1999), Nineteen Seventy-Seven (2000), Nineteen Eighty (2001), and Nineteen Eighty-Three (2002), and have been transl...more

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Books by David Peace

Average rating: 3.78 · 4,085 ratings · 638 reviews · 23 distinct works

	The Damned Utd 4.04 avg rating — 961 ratings — published 2006 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Nineteen Seventy Four 3.59 avg rating — 1,025 ratings — published 1999 — 20 editions	My rating:
	Nineteen Seventy-Seven 3.84 avg rating — 571 ratings — published 2000 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Nineteen Eighty 4.16 avg rating — 382 ratings — published 2001 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Tokyo Year Zero (Tokyo Trilogy, #1) 3.17 avg rating — 472 ratings — published 2007 — 25 editions	My rating:
	Nineteen Eighty Three 4.08 avg rating — 324 ratings — published 2002 — 13 editions	My rating:
	GB84 3.83 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Occupied City (Tokyo Trilogy, #2) 3.25 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 2010 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Glass Engraving: Lettering and Design 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1986	My rating:
	The Inscriptions of Eric Gill 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Series by David Peace

Red Riding Quartet (5 books)
by David Peace

3.81 avg rating — 2,302 ratings

Tokyo Trilogy (2 books)
by David Peace

3.19 avg rating — 610 ratings

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Quotes by David Peace

“My father used to say, 'If you want to know the artist, look at the art'.
He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it.”
― David Peace, Nineteen Seventy Four

tags: art , cricket , soccer

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“Thank fuck!”
― David Peace, The Damned Utd

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