David Peace je autorem syrových a atmosférických románů, které se často noří do temných zákoutí lidské psychiky a společnosti. Jeho díla, silně ovlivněná jeho zájmem o kriminální tematiku a zločin, zkoumají témata korupce, úpadku a násilí. Peace mistrně využívá svébytný styl a detailní vykreslení prostředí k vytvoření napětí a vtáhnutí čtenáře do svého znepokojivého světa. Jeho próza je známá svou intenzitou a schopností odhalit skryté pravdy pod povrchem zdánlivě obyčejného života.
David Peace was born in Ossett, West Yorkshire, U.K. in 1967. He currently lives in Tokyo. In 2003, Granta named him as one of its Best of Young British Novelists. The Red Riding Quartet - Nineteen Seventy Four, Nineteen Seventy Seven, Nineteen Eighty and Nineteen Eighty Three - chronicles in muscular and compulsive prose the sordidness of crime, corruption and murder amidst the fear and confusion of the Yorkshire Ripper killings.
**AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW**'Peace writes the boldest and most original British fiction of his generation.'RICHARD LLOYD PARRY, NEW YORK TIMES'Hypnotic.' GUARDIAN, on Red or Dead'Probably the best novel ever written about sport.' THE TIMES, on The Damned UtdFrom the author of[Bokinfo].
Today you're the fire engine driver! Enter a world of imaginative play and build early learning skills. Children will love using their imagination to pretend to use the fire engine's controls to switch on the siren and turn on the flashing lights! Encourages problem solving and teamwork, as well as recognition of colours, shapes, and numbers.
JUMP INTO THE DRIVER'S SEAT TO ENTER A WORLD OF IMAGINATIVE PLAY! With this new and innovative picture books series, children can race a fire engine to the rescue, build a house with a digger, and climb aboard a tractor to help out on the farm! Vehicle drivers on a building site have a very important job. They are in charge of the big machines that mix, dig, and lift. Now, it's your turn to be the driver! I'm the Digger Driver puts the reader in charge with a dashboard design across the bottom of each page—children will love using their imagination to pretend to use the vehicle’s controls. The narrative is embedded with key early learning concepts, and each book ends with a sense of achievement as the task is completed. • Inspires imaginative play and builds self-confidence by putting children in charge. • Encourages problem-solving and teamwork, as well as recognition of colors, shapes and numbers. • Children will love making their own sound effects, acting out real-life situations and spotting their favorite vehicles.
The Occupation had a hangover, but still the Occupation went to work. Tokyo, July 1949, President Shimoyama, Head of the National Railways of Japan, goes missing just a day after serving notice of 30,000 job losses.
Written by world-leading fertility experts and edited by mums who have undertaken multiple cycles of IVF and know what it takes to succeed, this guide advises you on the entire IVF process and how to maximise your chances of success. All IVF topics are covered, from how to choose your fertility clinic, to understanding the stages of an IVF cycle, to how to prepare yourself physically and emotionally for the treatment. Looks at how to optimise your nutrition and how to improve egg and sperm quality Examines the growing trends of egg freezing and donor-assisted IVF Shares real-life stories of a variety of IVF journeys and their inspiring outcomes Includes key contributions from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), the UK's independent regulator for fertility treatment and researchIVF: All You Need to Know is an essential handbook for couples and individuals who are considering IVF, who want to find out what's involved, and who want to be as well prepared as they can be. It is also for those who may have already tried IVF, have experienced failed cycles and want to boost their chances of success next time around.
Situating ballet within twentieth-century modernism, this book brings complexity to the history of George Balanchine's American neoclassicism. It intervenes in the prevailing historical narrative and rebalances Balanchine's role in dance history by revealing the complex social, cultural, and political forces that actually shaped the construction of American neoclassical ballet.
In these twelve interconnected tales, David Peace—acclaimed author of the Red Riding Quartet, Occupied City, and Tokyo Year Zero—weaves fact and fiction as he takes up the brief but fiercely lived life of the early-twentieth-century Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. Unique and offbeat, Patient X delves into Akutagawa’s rich and complicated private life: his fears and battles with mental illness; his complex reaction to the Westernization of Japan; his exacting creative process; and his suicide, weaving these facets into a hauntingly evocative portrait. But Patient X is more than a paean to one remarkable writer: it is also an incandescent exploration of the act and obsession of writing itself, and of the role of the artist in times that darkly mirror our own.
David Peace turns his talents to the most wrenching and socially devastating struggle of the past half-century in Britain: the 1984 miner's strike, which set the government against the people.
What happens when you are finally given the perfect man, only to discover that perfect can get a little old?