Piers Paul Read's Books
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Moviehole, January 20, 2013
...she dies, he vows to escape. I have not read the book that the film is based on, Piers Paul Read’s “Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors,” but after reading some reviews of another book, Nando Parrado’s “Miracle in the Andes,” I can’t...
The Independent, January 19, 2013
...the police investigation failed to provide forensic evidence. Few crimes have provoked such prolonged scrutiny. When the author Piers Paul Read met with seven of the robbers before writing his account, the man he described as the most sinister of the...
Spectator, January 10, 2013
...recollection from received myth — what he calls ‘the product’. Some of which he created himself, as with Piers Paul Read’s excellent 1976 book The Train Robbers (to be republished later this year), a collaboration with the gang members, flogged...
Irish Examiner, November 23, 2012
...might wonder why bother write another book on Alfred Dreyfus. Some 600 have already been published. The novelist Piers Paul Read, however, brings a sweeping historical perspective and literary verve to The Dreyfus Affair: The Story of the Most Infamous...
Telegraph, November 17, 2012
...Interviewing the survivors of the Andes plane crash was difficult and at times painful It is now 40 years since the Fairchild aircraft chartered from the Uruguayan Air Force by a team of amateur rugby players disappeared in the Andes and was given up for...
Telegraph, October 23, 2012
...Steps; Joyce Cary: A House of Children; Evelyn Waugh: Men At Arms; Anthony Powell: At Lady Molly’s; Piers Paul Read: A Season In The West; and John Le Carré: The Honourable Schoolboy. As a lollipop I would add England, Their England, if only for the...
Guardian.co.uk, October 2, 2012
...By Alive: The True Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read Buy it from the Guardian bookshopTell us what you think: Star-rate and review this book It is unsurprising that some of the 16 Uruguayan rugby players who survived...
Catholic Herald, January 16, 2013
...Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, about what we must do, or not do, to be saved? Piers Paul Read is a novelist, historian and biographer...
Spectator, January 10, 2013
...recollection from received myth — what he calls ‘the product’. Some of which he created himself, as with Piers Paul Read’s excellent 1976 book The Train Robbers (to be republished later this year), a collaboration with the gang members, flogged...
Belfast Telegraph, December 29, 2012
...the age bracket, the sex scenes are tasteful and rather in contrast with another old-age romance written by Piers Paul Read - The Misogynist - which describes the excruciating embarrassment of timing the Viagra exactly to coincide with the planned...
Irish Examiner, November 23, 2012
...might wonder why bother write another book on Alfred Dreyfus. Some 600 have already been published. The novelist Piers Paul Read, however, brings a sweeping historical perspective and literary verve to The Dreyfus Affair: The Story of the Most Infamous...
Telegraph, November 17, 2012
...Interviewing the survivors of the Andes plane crash was difficult and at times painful It is now 40 years since the Fairchild aircraft chartered from the Uruguayan Air Force by a team of amateur rugby players disappeared in the Andes and was given up for...
Business Recorder, October 12, 2012
...necessary confidence, even in the most adverse circumstance," says Canessa, now a 59-year-old paediatric cardiologist. British writer Piers Paul Read in 1974 gave the first extensive account of the ordeal in his book, "Alive: The Story of the Andes...
Guardian.co.uk, October 2, 2012
...By Alive: The True Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read Buy it from the Guardian bookshopTell us what you think: Star-rate and review this book It is unsurprising that some of the 16 Uruguayan rugby players who survived...
