I recently watched the stunning 3-part movie series "Red Riding" twice because it was so powerful and complex. I found things I had completely missed in the first viewing. It was based on David Peace's book series so I picked them up to see if there was more to be had. Sure enough, the book enhan...
3 ½ I guess.Hey, I reviewed this book almost two years ago and just noticed today the review is gone. Maybe I mistakenly deleted the book, could be.This novel tells a pretty good story, about the abduction of a young girl, possible related abductions of other girls, how the story is handled by a ...
"‘It’s a big black bloody world full of a million black and bloody hells, and when those hells collide it’s time for us to sit up and take fucking notice.’"Falling roughly halfway through David Peace’s brutal 1980, there’s perhaps no better quote to sum up the worldview on full display in his Red...
On August 15, 1946—the first anniversary of the Japanese surrender—the partially decomposed, raped, and strangled bodies of two women are found in Shiba Park. More murders will soon be uncovered: women killed in the same way, and, it becomes clear, by the same hand. Narrated by the irreverent, d...
Occasionally, it's a good idea to pick up a book for which you have no frame of reference. It can serve as an education, a corrective to bad assumptions, or just a nice diversion from your usual reading. I know very little about European football (soccer) and have virtually no knowledge of the En...
Peaces powerful novel exposes a side of life which most of us would prefer to ignore.Daily Mail A writer of immense talent and power . If northern noir is the crime fashion of the moment, Peace is its most brilliant designer.The Times (London) Peace has found his own voicefull of dazzling...
THE DIGNITY OF LABOUR 22. THE DIGNITY OF LABOURAt the airport, Speke airport. The morning after the night before, lost morning after lost night before. Bill and the players and the staff and the officials of Liverpool Football Club got off the plane. The Liverpool plane, the losers’ plane. In sil...
For the city is a chronicle, a journal, in black and white, and I am its chronicler, its journalist, in hat and coat. A thousand stories for every day, every night; never one city, but a thousand cities – heaven for some, hell for others. And for every story there are two sides, two sides at leas...