Audiobooks by David Peace

Japan: A BBC documentary collection Audiobook

Japan is a land of complexity, contrast and contradictions. The world's third-largest economy, it is a powerhouse of innovation and a pioneer in technology, fashion and pop culture. But it also has a rich, ancient heritage and a deep reverence for custom, ritual and tradition. This illuminating 2-part radio collection traverses the different aspects of this fascinating country, from its famous historical figures to its diverse cultural landscape. Part 1: History opens with Japan in Five Lives, in which cultural historian Christopher Harding portrays the lives of five colourful characters from the country's past to answer the question 'Who are the Japanese'? In Killing Time in Imperial Japan, he explores early 20th Century Tokyo, a bustling, cosmopolitan capital where the meaning of 'time' was hotly contested. Dark Blossoms sees him examining the doubts and misgivings accompanying Japan's rapid embrace of modernity, while in Japanese Tsunami, broadcasters Richard Lloyd Parry and Matthew Sweet discuss the devastating natural disaster that rocked the country in 2011. In Land of the Rising Sums, Alex Bellos visits Kyoto to ask why Asian cultures seem so much better at maths; in Japan and Religion, Roy Jenkins discusses the place of religious traditions in modern Japan; and in Supernatural Japan, Christopher Harding looks at how the Japanese have used ghosts and ghost stories to make sense of their world. Part 2: Culture celebrates Japan's art, literature and film. In Japan Now 2020, Philip Dodd talks to writers Hiromi Ito and Yukiko Motoya and photographer Tomoko Sawada about women's roles in Japanese culture today. Meanwhile, in Images of Japan, illustrator Fumio Obata and manga translator Jocelyne Allen discuss Japanese comic book imagery, and we join novelists Kyoko Nakajima and Yuya Sato in conversation with Christopher Harding. Landmark: Seven Samurai and Landmark: Rashomon see Matthew Sweet and Rana Mitter investigating the stories behind Akira Kurosawa's two most influential films, in the company of guests including film scholar Ian Christie and authors SF Said, David Peace and Natasha Pulley. The Tale of Genji takes us into the shimmering world of medieval Japan, as Rana Mitter explores Murasaki Shikibu's masterpiece, widely considered to be the world's first novel. Finally, in Godzilla and Hayao Miyazaki, Christopher Harding considers cinematic depictions of Japanese fear, as exemplified by the legendary monster king and the 2013 animated film The Wind Rises. Credits First broadcast on the following dates: Japan in Five Lives Presented by Christopher Harding Produced by Sheila Cook Radio 3: Daimatsu 'The Demon' Hirobumi 26 Jul 2021 Tezuka Osamu: Godfather of Manga 27 Jul 2021 Oda Nobunaga: Warlord 28 Jul 2021 Murasaki Shikibu: Imperial Insider 29 Jul 2021 Himiko: Shaman Queen 30 Jul 2021 Killing Time in Imperial Japan Presented by Christopher Harding Produced by Luke Mulhall Radio 3, 31 Mar 2017 Dark Blossoms Presented by Christopher Harding Produced by Sheila Cook Radio 3: Deer Cry Hall 23 Apr 2018 Happy Families 24 Apr 2018 Rebranding the Buddha 25 Apr 2018 The Art of the Heist 26 Apr 2018 Japan Refusal 27 Apr 2018 Japanese Tsunami With Richard Lloyd Parry and Matthew Sweet Radio 3, 19 Apr 2018 Land of the Rising Sums Presented by Alex Bellos Produced by Alexandra Feachem Radio 4, 29 Oct 2012 Japan and Religion Presented by Roy Jenkins With Erica Baffelli, Christopher Hood, Kiyo Roddis and Nathanael Ayling Radio Wales, 29 Sep 2019 Supernatural Japan Presented by Christopher Harding Produced by Luke Mulhall Radio 3, 22 Apr 2018 Japan Now 2020 Presented by Philip Dodd With Hiromi Ito, Tomoko Sawada, Yukiko Motoya and Motoyuki Shibata Produced by Luke Mulhall Radio 3, 19 Feb 2020 Images of Japan Presented by Christopher Harding With Fumio Obata, Jocelyne Allen, Yuya Sato and Kyoko Nakajima Produced by Luke Mulhall Radio 3, 21 Feb 2019 Landmark: Seven Samurai Presented by Matthew Sweet With Professor Ian Christie, Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, SF Said and Alexander Jacoby Produced by Zahid Warley Radio 3, 25 Mar 2014 Landmark: Rashomon Presented by Rana Mitter With David Peace, Natasha Pulley, Yuna Tasaka and Jasper Sharp Produced by Luke Mulhall Radio 3, 25 Apr 2018 The Tale of Genji Presented by Rana Mitter With Dennis Washburn, Jennifer Guest and Christopher Harding Produced by Luke Mulhall Radio 3, 26 May 2016 Godzilla and The Wind Rises Presented by Matthew Sweet With Christopher Harding Produced by Zahid Warley Radio 3, 13 May 2014 © 2022 Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2022 Studios Distribution Ltd.

Alex Bellos, Christopher Harding, David Peace, Matthew Sweet, Natasha Pulley, Philip Dodd, Rana Mitter, Richard Lloyd Parry, Roy Jenkins, SF Said, Sf Said (Author), Various (Narrator)

Audiobook

Patient X: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa

The acclaimed author of Occupied City, Tokyo Year Zero, and The Red Riding Quartet now gives us a stunning work of fiction in twelve connected tales that take up the strange, brief life of the brilliant twentieth-century Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. Haunting and evocative, brutal and surreal, these twelve connected tales evoke the life of the Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927), whose short story 'In the Grove' served as an inspiration for Akira Kurosawa's famous film Rashōmon, and whose narrative use of multiple perspectives and different versions of a single event influenced generations of storytellers. Writing out of his own obsession with Akutagawa, David Peace delves into the known facts and events of the writer's life and inner world--birth to a mother who was mentally ill and a father who died shortly thereafter; his own battles with mental illness; his complicated reaction to the beginnings of modernization and Westernization of Japan; his short but prolific writing career; his suicide at the age of thirty-five--and creates a stunningly atmospheric and deeply moving fiction that tells its own story of a singularly brilliant mind.

David Peace (Author), Ric Jerrom (Narrator)

Audiobook

1977

Leeds. Söndagen den 29 maj 1977. Det händer igen Det är försommar, och hela stan är förväntansfull inför silverjubileet av drottning Elisabeths regeringstid. Men kriminalinspektör Bob Fraser och Jack Whitehead, som är reporter på The Post, har annat att tänka på. Någon rör sig på stadens gator, någon som dödar och lemlästar prostituerade kvinnor. Mördaren får snabbt smeknamnet »Yorkshire Ripper«, och både Fraser och Whitehead arbetar oförtröttligt - var och en på sitt håll - med att försöka få tag på honom. Efterforskningarna kompliceras samtidigt av att de bägge männen själva är involverade i förhållanden med prostituerade. I takt med att sommaren fortskrider accelererar antalet mord - och Fraser och Whitehead misstänker att mer än en mördare kan vara i farten. DAVID PEACE [f. 1967] växte upp i Yorkshire på sjuttiotalet. 1977 är den andra boken i den kvartett kriminalromaner som fått det samlande namnet »Yorkshire-kvartetten« [»Red Riding Quartet«].

David Peace (Author), Harald Leander (Narrator)

Audiobook

1974

December 1974, Yorkshire. Eddie Dunford får jobb som kriminalreporter på Yorkshire Post. Hans första uppdrag är att rapportera om det brutala mordet på tioåriga Claire Kemplay. Samtidigt försöker han hantera förlusten av sin nyss bortgångne far. Eddies instinkt säger honom att det finns ett samband mellan mordet på Claire och två andra flickor, Jeanette Garland och Susan Ridyard, som försvunnit i Yorkshire-trakten ett par år tidigare. Trots uppmaningar från flera håll om att inte lägga näsan i blöt fortsätter Eddie att gräva vidare. Bit för bit nystas sanningen upp. En död flicka med svanvingar fastsydda på ryggen, ett zigenarläger i lågor Eddies efterforskningar leder honom in i ett inferno av korruption, polisbrutalitet och sadism. DAVID PEACE [f. 1967] växte upp i Yorkshire på sjuttiotalet. 1974 är hans debut, första boken i den kvartett kriminalromaner som fått det samlande namnet Yorkshire-kvartetten [Red Riding Quartet]. Efter att i femton år varit bosatt i Japan är David Peace sedan 2009 tillbaka i Yorkshire.

David Peace (Author), Mats Eklund (Narrator)

Audiobook

Occupied City

On January 26, 1948, a public health official arrives at a branch of the Teikoku Bank in Tokyo. There has been an outbreak of dysentery in the neighborhood, he tells the manager, and he has been assigned by Occupation authorities to treat all locals who might have been exposed. The sixteen members of the staff gather as the official pours the first of two separate medicines into sixteen cups and instructs them in how exactly to drink it. Within five minutes, ten employees are dead and the official has fled. But the horrific crime is merely the catalyst for this blistering novel. In twelve different voices'each telling the story of the murder from a singular perspective'the narrative gathers staggering power and pathos. We hear one of the victims speak from the grave. We read the increasingly mad notes of one of the case detectives, the desperate letters of an American occupier, and the testimony of a traumatized survivor. We meet a journalist, a gangster-turned-businessman, a man who calls himself "The Occult Detective," a Soviet soldier, and a well-known painter accused and convicted of the crime. Every voice enlarges and deepens the portrait of a people making their way out of a war-induced hell. Wittingly or unwittingly, each one of them plays a part in blurring the line between truth and lies: in their own lives, in the life of their city, their history, their nation, the newly emerging postwar world. A stunningly audacious work of fiction, Occupied City envelops the reader in its extreme time and place with its brilliantly idiosyncratic, expressionistic, and mesmerizing narrative. 'An extraordinary and highly original crime novel'This is a truly remarkable work. It is hugely daring, utterly irresistible, deeply serious and unlike anything I have ever read.' 'New York Times Book Review

David Peace (Author), Various Readers, Various Readers (Narrator)

Audiobook

Tokyo Year Zero

On August 15th, 1946'the first anniversary of the Japanese surrender'the partially decomposed bodies of two women are found in the ruins of ZÅjÅji Temple in central Tokyo. They have been raped and strangled'and they are only the first. More will be found killed in the same way, and by the same hand. The irreverent, angry, despairing yet determined Detective Minami narrates the riveting story of the hunt for the Japanese Bluebeard, as well as telling his own story of struggles with haunting memories. A story told with demanding power, written in a telegraphic, darkly lyrical language, shot through with wry humor, unblinking in its vision of the chaos left in the wake of war and of the moral and psychological corruption it engenders'Tokyo Year Zero is blistering and unforgettable, a stunningly original crime novel. 'Tokyo Year Zero is part historical stunner, part Kurosawa crime film, an original all the way. David Peace's depiction of a war-torn metropolis both crumbling and ascendant is peerless, and the story itself is beautifully wrought.''James Ellroy

David Peace (Author), Mark Bramhall (Narrator)

Audiobook