JOE THOMAS was born in Hackney in 1977. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Sao Paulo quartet - Paradise City, Gringa, Playboy, and Brazilian Psycho - and Bent, which was a Guardian Best Book of 2020 and an Irish Times pick of the best crime fiction of 2020. His new novel, White Riot, the start of a trilogy set in Hackney in the 1970s and 1980s, is to be published by Arcadia in January 2023, and will be followed by Red Menace and True Blue. Joe lives in London with his partner and son, and teaches at City, University of London.
Stylish and pacy, White Riot throbs with a restless, punky energy,
bringing Hackney of the late 70s and early 80s compellingly and
disturbingly to life. A full-throated, swaggering roar of a
book
*Lucy Caldwell*
White Riot is an electrifying novel of politics, the
counterculture, and music as a powerful force. In Suzi Scialfa,
Thomas has given us a pioneering character - a female journalist,
forging her way in a man's world; you believe in her, root for her,
want to hear more. I loved this book
*Laura Barton*
Police and thieves, punks and spycops. White Riot captures the raw
energy of the times in spectacular fashion, evoking a visceral
narrative of power and corruption
*Jake Arnott*
Joe Thomas takes on the inflammable end of the Seventies, when Rock
Against Racism took the National Front head on and Margaret
Thatcher turned the Winter of Discontent into her own Springtime .
. . Like Daniel Rachel's Walls Come Tumbling Down meets David
Peace's GB84 in a dark labyrinth of bent coppers, sleeping
policemen, political polarity and the greatest sounds of the
dirtiest decade
*Cathi Unsworth*
This book does not mess about. Punchy pithy prose page to page.
Thrilling, entertaining, expertly crafted - a winner in every way.
Loved it
*Ashley Hickson-Lovence*
Enthralling
*Sunday Times*
Gripping . . . Deeply moving . . . A love letter to London,
seething with outrage, that leads you keen to read its planned
sequels
*The Times*
A propulsive crime novel. Thomas ably captures local community
anger, interracial tensions and especially the foreboding
atmosphere . . . This ambitious work on a big canvas is an
admirable attempt at portraying a fraught and fracturing nation
*Guardian*
Captures the searing energy and polarised nature of the capital in
the late 1970s and early 1980s . . . Thomas creates a potent drama
from the counterculture of a period when Rock Against Racism and
the Anti-Nazi League were battling prejudice. White Riot adroitly
blends fact and fiction.
*Independent*
With real life and fictional characters rubbing shoulders in a
turbo-charged and multi-layered narrative, this is truly a State of
Britain thriller . . . A genuine, undiluted 'punk' epic, with a
ready-made soundtrack and I can't wait for the next instalment
*Crime Time*
A timely, powerful and gorgeously readable novel that represents
everything that is good and important about the crime fiction
genre
*Irish Times*
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