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Nineteen Seventy Four

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Nineteen Seventy Four

By: David Peace
Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
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*Please note this audiobook contains explicit language.

Jeanette Garland, missing Castleford, July 1969. Susan Ridyard, missing Rochdale, March 1972. Claire Kemplay, missing Morley, since yesterday. It’s winter, 1974, Yorkshire, Christmas bombs, Lord Lucan on the run, the Bay City Rollers, and Eddie Dunford’s got the job he wanted – crime correspondent for the Yorkshire Evening Post. He didn’t know it was going to be a season in hell. A dead little girl with a swan’s wings stitched into her back. A gypsy camp in a ring of fire. Corruption everywhere you look.

In Nineteen Seventy Four, David Peace brings passion and stylistic bravado to this terrifyingly intense journey into a secret history of sexual obsession and greed, and starts a highly acclaimed crime series that has redefined how the genre is approached.

David Peace (born 1967) is an English author. He was named one of the Best of Young British Novelists by Granta in 2003 and won the 2004 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. He is also known for his novels GB84 and The Damned United; the latter was made into a feature film starring Michael Sheen.

©2000 David Peace (P)2010 Audible Winter Crime Christmas England

Critic Reviews

" Nineteen Seventy Four is raw and furiously alive, the literary equivalent of a hard right to the jaw. David Peace has delivered the finest crime fiction debut of the year and joined a select group of novelists who are transforming the genre with passion and style." (George Pelecanos)
"Quite simply, this is the future of British crime fiction." ( Time Out)
"The pace is relentless, the style staccato-plus and the morality bleak and forlorn....Peace's voice is powerful and unique." ( Guardian)
"A triumph of sustained narrative energy that reinvigorates the British crime novel" - ( Daily Telegraph)
"This is one of the most exciting thrillers I have ever read. As a literary work, it zings with poetry, rhythm and black elegance" – Iain Martin ( WATERSTONES)
"A beautifully written and chilling debut novel that firmly establishes David Peace as a master wordsmith and crime fiction aficionado" – ( eurocrime.co.uk)
"A must-read for fans of gripping fiction" – ( Woman and Home)
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Love it. Have listened multiple times and still find it very powerful. Do the trilogy.

Awesome mate!

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I couldn't put this book down. When you get used to the Yorkshire accent/dialect and the unique rhythm David Peace writes at you are in for a brutal and entirely gripping ride with certain twists every couple of chapters. I couldn't watch Netflix after finishing this book, nothing is as good. I think what makes this book even more amazing is the narration from Saul Reichlin, he nails it, it was as if he was living the storyline for himself. This book is very confronting at times, but as Peace mentions in the bonus interview at the end of the audiobook, it's meant to disturb you, this kind of stuff really does happen in real life, its not pretty but books like this may give us a better understanding and create a way to stop these atrocities from continuing in the future.

As gritty as a carney with a mouth full of glass

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I guess it being 'too much' translates to David hitting hard and achieving the impact he desired. For me, the expletives came too frequently. I'm no prude, but it was too much. Also, Saul's voice was too gritty.

too much

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Enthralling, captivating and disturbing all in one go. Truly great period crime novel, with a very worthy narrator.

1970’s Yorkshire noir

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