David Peace

The Damned Utd is a novel by British author David Peace. The main plot depicts a fictionalised account of Brian Clough's brief spell as manager of Leeds United football club in 1974.

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. And the most …

The first installment of David Peace's electrifying Red Riding Quartet vividly brings to life a gritty, dangerous working class city tormented by a series of brutal murders. Nineteen Seventy-Four follows Eddie Dunford, the newly minted crime correspondent for the Yorkshire Post. His first story is about Clare Kemplay, …

With Nineteen Eighty Three David Peace completes his red riding quartet, a sustained epic of Yorkshire Noir. Nineteen Eighty Three's intertwining storylines see the quartet's central themes of corruption and the perversion of justice come to a head: BJ the rent boy, the lawyer big John Pigott, who's as near as you get …