GB84

The classic novel about the miners' strike

David Peace

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571268429
• Year: 2011

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

Table of contents

• Cover
• Landing Page
• Praise
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Author’s Note
• Epigraph
• The Argument
• PART I: Ninety-nine red balloons March – May 1984
• PART II: Two tribes June – August 1984
• PART III: Careless whisper September – November 1984 
• PART IV: There’s a world outside your window and it’s a world of dread and fear December 1984 – February 1985
• PART V: Terminal, or the Triumph of the Will March 1985 – 
• Sources & Acknowledgements
• About the Author
• Copyright