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David Peace

April 2022

  • David Peace in Tokyo, March 2022.

    Books interview
    David Peace: ‘Publishers should be less risk-averse’

    The novelist on being too literary for crime fiction and too ‘crimey’ for literary fiction, and the mysterious death that concludes his Tokyo trilogy

October 2021

  • Philip Seymour Hoffman in the title role of the film Capote.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 true crime novels

    Adding an intense layer of meaning to well-known facts, authors including Truman Capote, Kate Summerscale and Gordon Burn raise this genre far above its grubby reputation

June 2021

  • Author David Peace is photographed by Shinobazu pond in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, March 8, 2018. Photographer: Shiho Fukada/Getty Images for the Guardian

    Book of the day
    Tokyo Redux by David Peace review – an astonishing conclusion to the trilogy

    The mysterious death of the Japanese National Railways’ first chief casts its shadow over this brilliantly polyphonic finale, which faithfully recreates real-life events in postwar Tokyo

May 2021

  • David Peace: ‘leads stealthily from the who-what-why of gangsters into hushed up black ops.’

    Tokyo Redux by David Peace review – the final instalment of a blistering trilogy

    Peace is somewhere near his best in the third of his crime novels set in occupied postwar Japan, with plenty of twists and meta-fictional turns

February 2021

  • Michael Sheen as Brian Clough (front right) in the 209 film of The Damned United.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about football

    From Barry Hines’s social realism to Nick Hornby’s account of all-consuming fandom, these are books about far more than sport

February 2019

  • Ossett, West Yorkshire.

    Made in ...
    David Peace on Ossett: ‘I thought there was nothing there – I was wrong’

    The author reflects on his youthful dreams of exile in Paris and Berlin and leaving for the bright lights of Wakefield

April 2018

  • David Chafer, as Peter Taylor, and Luke Dickson, as Brian Clough, in The Damned United.

    The Damned United review – Brian Clough drama is a game of two halves

    Clough’s ill-fated tenure at Leeds United is turned into a finely performed, if loosely structured, three-hander
  • Ryunosuke Akutagawa.

    Book of the day
    Patient X by David Peace review – portrait of a tortured artist

    ‘The Case-Book of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’ presents 12 scenes from the life of the writer known as the father of the Japanese short story
  • Image from Book: Patient X: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa - by David Peace

    Patient X by David Peace review – a curious collage

    David Peace’s attempt to inhabit the mind of the late, tortured Japanese author Ryūnosuke Akutagawa exposes the limitations of his style

March 2018

  • David Mitchell (taken 1999) and David Peace (2001)

    David Mitchell meets David Peace: ‘I’ve slowed down. I can’t believe I published eight books in 10 years’

    The books interview: fifteen years after they made it on to Granta’s best young British novelists list, the two authors discuss self doubt, obsessions and making a home abroad

March 2016

  • Laura Carmichael, Uzo Aduba and Zawe Ashton in The Maids

    Mark Lawson's theatre studies
    Scene change: the problems with relocating plays

    Moving The Maids from France to the US adds a powerful racial subtext to Genet’s original, while Anouilh’s Welcome Home, Captain Fox! fares less well when set in America. Not all plays benefit from gaining a new setting
  • The Damned United at West Yorkshire Playhouse photography by Malcolm I. Johnson press image supplied by steve.pratt@wyp.org.uk Andrew Lancel as Brian Clough and Tony Bell as Peter Taylor

    The Damned United review – squad of 11 actors stage David Peace's novel in Leeds

    Andrew Lancel captures Brian Clough’s charm and cheek in this story of his stint as Leeds manager, but Red Ladder’s show is probably for football fans only
  • Brian Clough, left, and Bill Shankly, at the 1974 FA Charity Shield game at Wembley.

    The Damned United hits Leeds: club graffiti, family hostility – and a 14-plus swear rating

    David Peace’s modern classic The Damned United is being staged in Leeds, a city with no great love for its subject: charismatic, alcoholic football manager Brian Clough. Mark Lawson on the fans, the opposition – and bringing ballet shoes to Elland Road

October 2014

  • David Peace.

    David Peace: why I'm letting Red Ladder stage The Damned United

  • Penguin books

    Tips, links and suggestions
    Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?

August 2014

  • Sara Paretsky at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

    Murdo MacLeod's portraits of authors at the 2014 Edinburgh international book festival, part II

    From George RR Martin to Phill Jupitus and Ali Smith, Murdo MacLeod has been turning his lens on more authors

October 2013

  • David Moyes

    Sportblog
    David Moyes is on a hiding to nothing as Manchester United manager

    Paul Wilson: Succeeding Sir Alex Ferguson at Old Trafford has become the job from hell as United falter and David Moyes ties himself in knots

August 2013

  • Richard Williams

    Sportblog
    Bill Shankly: how much of Red or Dead is fact and how much fiction?

    Richard Williams
    Richard Williams: Novelist David Peace has shown more dimensions to the Liverpool managerial great in his new book
  • Murdo Macleod's portraits at Fringe

    Murdo MacLeod's portraits at the Edinburgh International book festival - in pictures

    A selection of the photographer's best portraits from this year's Edinburgh International book festival

  • David Peace

    Books blog
    What I'm thinking about ... why big books are back

    Kirsty Gunn: The ultra-long novel is making a comeback - what does this say about us as readers?

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