- Published: 15 May 2008
- ISBN: 9780099506171
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $29.99
The Hounding of David Oluwale
- Published: 15 May 2008
- ISBN: 9780099506171
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $29.99
David Oluwale’s story has a raw power, even five decades on, and Kester Aspden makes it compelling and relevant for the reader of today
Mishal Husain
Kester Aspden's brave book finally puts the life and death of David Oluwale where it always should have been: centre-stage in the criminal, political and social history of postwar England
David Peace
Aspden's painstaking research, empathetic approach and ability to weave together a vivid wider social critique show Oluwale was done a terrible disservice... This tenderly compiled book will still make you weep
Metro
Aspden writes compassionately of his character, weaving information into a gripping narrative and attempting, with a novelist's skill, to give a heartbeat to the dry statistics on his life
Independent
This is a shocking and engrossing story... A true story with all the material of a novel, the book is a kind of In Cold Blood set in Leeds
Jonathan Sale, Financial Times
Aspden's meticulous work does justice to a largely forgotten case
New Statesman
The New David Peace, we're saying
Arena
Incisive, provocative and haunting
Lucy Caldwell, Independent