Stylish, riveting and appalling, GB84 is a shocking fictional documentation of the violence, sleaze and fraudulence that characterised Thatcher's Britain.




Great Britain. 1984. The miners' strike. It is the closest Britain has come to civil war in fifty years, setting the government against the people.




In his trademark visceral prose, Peace describes the insidious workings of the boardroom negotiations and the increasingly anarchic coalfield battles; the struggle for influence in government and the dwindling powers of the NUM; and the corruption, intrigue and dirty tricks which run through the whole like a fault in a seam of coal.




David Peace has written a novel extraordinary in its reach, and unflinching in its capacity to recreate the brutality and passion that changed the course of British history in the late twentieth century.




'A genuine British original.'
Guardian




'Peace is a writer of such immense talent and power... If Northern noir is the crime fashion of the moment, Peace is its most brilliant designer.'
The Times

• We started tracking this book on April 5, 2013.
• This book was £5.98 when we started tracking it.
• The price of this book has changed 42 times in the past 4,496 days.
• The current price of this book is £4.99 last checked 15 hours ago.
• This book is at its lowest price in the past year.
• The lowest price to date was £1.79 last reached on November 19, 2013.
• This book has been £1.79 2 times since we started tracking it.
• The highest price to date was £5.98 last reached on April 5, 2013.
• This book has been £5.98 one time since we started tracking it.

• Literature & FictionContemporary FictionLiterary
• Literature & FictionGenre FictionPolitical
• Literature & FictionLiterary FictionLiterary

• Publication Date: February 3, 2011
• Text-to-Speech: Disabled
• Lending: Disabled
• Print Length: 484 Pages
• File Size: 31 KB