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Piers Paul Read
Published by arrangement with J.B. Lippincott Company, Inc. –T.p. verso.
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A plane has crashed in the Andes mountains. The passengers are hopelessly lost in one of the most isolated places on earth. Almost three months later, two of the survivors…
A history of the Catholic Church
Drawn from hundreds of letters and private and unpublished private diaries, Read–a close friend of Sir Alec Guinness–presents a brilliant, controversial, and often surprising and shocking biography of one of…
On Thursday August 8, 1963, fifteen masked men stopped the night train from Glasgow to London and robbed it of GBP2,500,000 (the equivalent of GBP41 million today).
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Juan Uriarte, a handsome and outspoken Spanish ex-priest, seems to be the model of nonviolence and compassion for the poor and downtrodden. So why is he on trial, accused of…
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Based on one of the central figures from Tosca, Puccini’s classic opera, Scarpia is a powerful story of love and political intrigue set in Rome after the French Revolution.
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‘A remarkable novel. Witty, even cynical, observation leads to a conclusion profoundly moving.’ - Graham Greene ‘Read is undoubtedly one of the most talented novelists of our generation.’ - Francis…
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Piers Paul Read is one of England’s most accomplished novelists, and Scarpia is among his finest novels. –The Wall Street Journal
Describes the ordeal of the survivors of an airplane crash in 1972 in the Andes wilderness in which over half of the forty-five passengers died, discussing the challenges the men…
A compelling, new and highly accessible account of one of the most high-profile and influential miscarriages of justice in French history: The Dreyfus Affair
1 New York Times Bestseller
No one will come away unmoved by the book, and no one will be able to put it down…. There is no way of reading…
The tragic history of the Knights Templar, the largest and most powerful military order of the Crusades.
True story about how a group of people who survived an airplane crash in the Andes had toresort to cannibalism in order to stay alive.
For use in schools and libraries only. Records the struggles and sufferings of the young Uruguayans during the ten weeks following an airplane crash in the Andes.
