1989
- Published
- 1 January 2022
- Pages
- 448
- ISBN-13
- 9780751583106
- Type
- novel
About this book
1989 picks Allie's career up a decade later exactly as its title promises, running 448 pages -- well over the first book's 320 -- as she's pulled into the AIDS crisis and the Eastern Bloc's collapse.
Key facts about 1989
1989 is a novel by Val McDermid. Readers have had it since 2022. It runs to 448 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of 1989. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780751583106 to find the main one.
1989 is book 2 of 2 in the Allie Burns series. The series has 2 published books. However, the series starts with 1979 (2021).
Additionally, Val McDermid writes Lindsay Gordon, Kate Brannigan and Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, plus 1 more series. Those series sit on our crime fiction shelf. Meanwhile, This Door of the Seas is the latest published Val McDermid book on file, from 6 August 2026.
About Val McDermid
Val McDermid is a Scottish crime writer whose career spans nearly four decades and five distinct series, making her one of the most prolific and structurally ambitious authors working in British crime fiction. See every Val McDermid book in order.
Its place in Allie Burns
1989 is book 2 in the Allie Burns series. It follows 1979. See the full Allie Burns reading order.
Val McDermid's newest series follows Allie Burns, a young Scottish journalist breaking into a newsroom that doesn't want her there, across a planned run of decade-spaced novels that double as a history of British investigative journalism from the late 1970s onward. 1979 opens with Allie fighting for bylines at a Glasgow paper on the eve of Thatcherism and stumbling into a story about drug trafficking and political corruption that nobody wants published; 1989 picks her up a decade later, further into her career…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780751583106
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780751583113
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780751583137