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Nationality: Wog – The Hounding of David Oluwale

nw.jpg Northern England in the seventies has been written about much more realistically and darker by David Peace in his Red Riding Quartet and The Damned United, and in the so-called ‘kitchen-sink’ dramas of the period and the years after that were more interested in the relationship between man and urban than the petty politics of the domestic home. If the relationships between crime and the cities of the seventies have been explored widely in fiction, non-fiction has, concerning the same subject, struggled to find its narrative voice.

Pete Carvill reviews Kester Aspden’s Nationality: Wog — The Hounding of David Oluwale.