David Peace

Limbs and hearts may be broken, but the spirit remains. Their message is that the club is not dead. Manchester United lives on.

In February 1958, BEA Flight 609 crashed on take-off at Munich Airport. On board were the Busby Babes, the young, gifted Manchester United team, along with journalists and supporters. 23 passengers died, 21 survived. In his utterly gripping new novel Munichs, David Peace explores the grief, the heartbreak and the resurrection of a club, a city and a country.

David was born and raised in Yorkshire. He’s the author of twelve novels, including the Red Riding Quartet, adapted for television by Channel 4 in 2009, GB84, awarded the James Tait Memorial Prize, The Damned Utd and Red or Dead, shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. In 2003, he was named as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. Presented in partnership with the Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester. Sponsored by Weightmans.

Hosted by Katy Shaw, Professor of 21st Century writing and publishing at Northumbria University and author of Crunch Lit, Hauntology and David Peace (Writers and Their Work).