GB84: A Novel Paperback - 2014

Media reviews

“Haunting, seminal, bleak, iconic, furied . . . it’s a necessary novel, vital even . . .”
—The Observer

“A conspiracy thriller laced with apocalyptic poetry.”
—The Independent

“The writing is clever, terse, incisive . . . This mammoth conspiracy tale is a thriller daubed with horror.”
—The Scotsman

“Superb . . . He has turned the whole episode into a gripping thriller, with no detriment to documentary realis . . . GB84 is a bold mixture of thriller, monologue, theatre script, chants, slogans, crime story, sexual subplot and documentary fiction . . . This is an epic novel . . . a crowded, ambitious, quick-moving novel, and as such is the literary equal of the epic events it commemorates.”
—The Guardian

“A violently original novel.”
—The Times

“Exhilarating . . . Compelling . . .”
—The Times Literary Supplement

“The book is so compelling . . . Peace’s terse, urgent sentences are perfectly suited to depicting a large-scale confrontation. The tactics and resources of both sides, their histories, their mindsets, the likely battlefields—all are vividly laid out in little more than a few paragraphs. Alliteration and repetition establish a marching rhythm like massing pickets or policemen . . . Only a rare political novel manages that.”
—The London Review of Books