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A novel of tragedy and hope inspired by one of the greatest disasters in sporting history—as only the acclaimed author of The Damned Utd could tell it. In 1958, Manchester United was flying high: the best-known soccer team in the world, the reigning English champions, led by a bright young group of ... Read More about Munichs: A Novel

When Don Revie took over this club, Leeds were a rugby league town. No interest in football. Gates under 10,000. We'd never won a thing. He built one of the great clubs of English football, one of the great teams of English football, from scratch on barren ground from nothing more than spirit and fi... Read More about The Damned United (Modern Plays)

A thrilling postmodern noir about the real-life disappearance, in 1949, of one of Japan's most powerful figures, and the three men who try--and fail--to crack the case.Tokyo, July 1949. The president of the National Railways of Japan vanishes. As American and Japanese investigators scrambled for an... Read More about Tokyo Redux: A novel (Tokyo Trilogy #3)

When the prolific master artist-craftsman Eric Gill turned his talents to inscriptional lettering, he created some of the most elegant monuments known. All 900 are catalogued here, from his first sonte inscription in 1901 to his design for his own gravestone in 1940.... Read More about Eric Gillthe Inscriptions

Unblinking in its vision of a nation in a chaotic, hellish period in its history, Tokyo Year Zero is a “brilliant, perplexing, claustrophobic … exhilarating” crime novel (The New York Times Book Review). It's August 1946—one year after the Japanese surrender—and women are turning up dead all over To... Read More about Tokyo Year Zero: Book One of the Tokyo Trilogy

David Peace's acclaimed Red Riding Quartet continues with this exhilarating follow-up to Nineteen Seventy-Four. It's summer in Leeds and the city is anxiously awaiting the Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Detective Bob Fraser and Jack Whitehead, a reporter at the Post, however, have other thi... Read More about Nineteen Seventy-Seven: The Red Riding Quartet, Book Two