Book description
In 1974 the brilliant and controversial Brian Clough made perhaps
his most eccentric decision: he accepted the Leeds United manager's
job. As successor to Don Revie, his bitter adversary, he was to last
only 44 days. In one of the most acclaimed novels of this or any other
year, David Peace takes us into the mind and thoughts of Ol'Big'Ead
himself, and brings vividly to life one of post-war Britain's most
complex and fascinating characters.
David Peace was born and brought up in Yorkshire. He attended
Manchester Polytechnic from 1988-91 and got a BA in English. He taught
English in Istanbul from 1992-1993 and then moved to Tokyo - where he
has lived ever since. His work to date has concerned itself the
Yorkshire of the 70s and 80s à Â- the place and time in which he grew
up. During the course of writing GB84, he found out that his
great-great-grandfather, his great-grandfather and his brothers were all
miners. He also found out that many of them were killed in the Thornhill
Mining disaster of 1983 Ã Â- when 139 men were killed. He is the author
of the Red Riding Quartet as well as GB84 and was included on Grantaà Â
s Best of Young British Novelists 2003.
