,
David Peace

David Peace’s Followers (535)

member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo

David Peace


Born
in Dewsbury, The United Kingdom
January 01, 1967

Genre

Influences


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 trans
...more

Average rating: 3.85 · 30,389 ratings · 2,679 reviews · 33 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Damned Utd

4.14 avg rating — 8,880 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Nineteen Seventy Four (Red ...

3.61 avg rating — 6,141 ratings — published 1999 — 52 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Nineteen Seventy Seven (Red...

3.85 avg rating — 3,575 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Nineteen Eighty (Red Riding...

4.12 avg rating — 2,074 ratings — published 2001 — 46 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Tokyo Year Zero (Tokyo Tril...

3.32 avg rating — 2,485 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Nineteen Eighty Three (Red ...

4.06 avg rating — 1,845 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
GB84

3.74 avg rating — 1,412 ratings — published 2004 — 20 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Red or Dead

3.77 avg rating — 1,387 ratings — published 2013 — 26 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Munichs

3.90 avg rating — 813 ratings14 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Occupied City (Tokyo Trilog...

3.41 avg rating — 805 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
More books by David Peace…
Nineteen Seventy Four Nineteen Seventy Seven Nineteen Eighty Nineteen Eighty Three
(4 books)
by
3.81 avg rating — 13,671 ratings

Tokyo Year Zero Occupied City Tokyo Redux
(3 books)
by
3.36 avg rating — 3,704 ratings

Quotes by David Peace  (?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)

“You are afraid, afraid of your dreams, your dreams which were once your friends, your best friends, are now your enemies, your worst enemies.”
David Peace, The Damned Utd

“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

“The sun comes out but the rain stays put. No rainbows today. Not here.”
David Peace, The Damned Utd

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics posts views last activity  
Challenge: 50 Books: Lucy Y's Books! 1 252 Jul 23, 2009 12:33PM  
Mystery/Thriller ...: may 2011 - sandi 4 27 Jun 02, 2011 04:00PM  
Readers and Reading: This topic has been closed to new comments. May 2011 reads 9 25 Jun 05, 2011 07:03AM  
Reading with Style: This topic has been closed to new comments. SU11 Reading w/Style Completed Tasks - Summer 2011 308 240 Aug 31, 2011 09:09PM  
Boxall's 1001 Bo...: Books on 1001 I won't read 76 527 Sep 22, 2011 12:25PM  
Nothing But Readi...: Denae's Challenges & Lists 57 147 Nov 21, 2011 02:29PM  


Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite David to Goodreads.