David Peace - GB84

This novel is a fiction, based on a fact. That fact was found in the following sources:

A Century of Struggle: Britain’s Miners in Pictures by the National Union of Mineworkers (1989)

A Word to the Wise Guy by The Mighty Wah (Beggars Banquet, 1984)

Blood Sweat & Tears by Roger Huddle, Angela Phillips, Mike Simons and John Sturrock (Artworker Books, 1985)

Coal, Crisis and Conflict by Jonathan and Ruth Winterton (Manchester University Press, 1989)

Counting the Cost by Jackie Keating (Wharncliffe, 1991)

Digging Deeper edited by Huw Beynon (Verso, 1985)

Enemies of the State by Gary Murray (Simon & Schuster, 1993)

Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941–1991 by Brian Crozier (HarperCollins, 1993)

Germinal by Emile Zola (1885)

Lobster: The Journal of Parapolitics, issues 1–40, edited by Robin Ramsay (CD-ROM available from www.lobster-magazine.co.uk)

Microphonies by Cabaret Voltaire (Virgin, 1984)

Miners on Strike by Andrew J. Richards (Berg, 1996)

Neither Washington nor Moscow by the Redskins (London, 1986)

One of Us by Hugo Young (Pan, 1993)

Open Secret by Stella Rimington (Hutchinson, 2001)

Policing the Miners’ Strike by Bob Fine and Robert Millar (Lawrence & Wishart, 1985)

Scargill: The Unauthorized Biography by Paul Routledge (HarperCollins, 1993)

Small Town England by New Model Army (Abstract, 1983–4)

Smear: Wilson and the Secret State by Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay (Grafton, 1992)

State of Siege by Jim Coulter, Susan Miller and Martin Walker (Canary Press, 1984)

Strike: A Sunday Times Insight Book by Peter Wilsher, Donald Macintyre and Michael Jones (André Deutsch, 1985)

The Enemies Within by Ian MacGregor with Rodney Tyler (Collins, 1986)

The Enemy Within by Seamus Milne (Verso, 1994)

The English Civil War Part II by Jeremy Deller (Artangel, 2002) The

Miners’ Strike: Loss without Limit by Martin Adney and John Lloyd (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986)

The Miners’ Strike Day by Day by Arthur Wakenfield (Wharncliffe, 2002)

The Miners’ Strike in Pictures by News Line Photographers (New Park, 1985)

The National Front by Martin Walker (Fontana, 1977)

The Political Police in Britain by Tony Bunyan (Quartet, 1977)

Thurcoft: A Village and the Miners’ Strike by the People of Thurcoft, Peter Gibbon and David Steyne (Spokesman, 1986)

Understanding the Miners’ Strike by John Lloyd (Fabian Society, 1985)

Welcome to the Pleasuredome by Frankie Goes to Hollywood (ZZT, 1984)

I would like to thank Charlie, Darren, Jim and Mick for sharing their information, their memories and their time. I would also like to thank Jon Riley for his faith and Lee Brackstone for his devotion.

David Peace — named in 2003 as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists — was born and brought up in Yorkshire. He is the author of the Red Riding Quartet (Nineteen Seventy Four, Nineteen Seventy Seven, Nineteen Eighty and Nineteen Eighty Three ) which has been adapted into a three part Channel 4 series that aired in Spring 2009, GB84 which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Award, and The Damned Utd , the film version of which (adapted by Peter Morgan and starring Michael Sheen) was released in Spring 2009. Tokyo Year Zero , the first part of his acclaimed Tokyo Trilogy, was published in 2007, and the second part, Occupied City , in 2009.