David Peace was born and brought up in Yorkshire. He attended Manchester Polytechnic from 1988-91 and got a BA in English. He taught English in Istanbul from 1992-1993 and then moved to Tokyo - where he has lived ever since.
His work to date has concerned itself the Yorkshire of the 70s and 80s - the place and time in which he grew up.
During the course of writing GB84, he found out that his great-great-grandfather, his great-grandfather and his brothers were all miners. He also found out that many of them were killed in the Thornhill Mining disaster of 1983 - when 139 men were killed.
He is the author of the Red Riding Quartet as well as GB84 and was included on Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2003.