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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read
Category: Non-Fiction
On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Out of the forty-five original passengers and crew, only sixteen made it off the mountain alive. For ten excruciating weeks they suffered deprivations beyond imagining, confronting nature head ...Show more
Alive: The True Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read
Category: Biography
Lost: 1972. A plane has crashed in the Andes mountains. The passengers are hopelessly lost in one of the most isolated places on earth. Abandoned: Almost three months later, two of the survivors, emaciated and frozen, reach the authorities and lead a rescue team to the remaining fourteen passengers. Ali ...Show more
Monk Dawson by Piers Paul Read
Category: Fiction
'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 King ' A] profoundly serious contemporary writer whose merits . . . are consistently underrated.' - D. J ...Show more
Scarpia by Piers Paul Read
Category: Fiction
Man is a delicate mechanism. he can easily be set off course. It is the late 18th century and a young Sicilian nobleman, Vitellio Scarpia, finds himself penniless and in disgrace on the streets of Rome. After leaving his home to pursue a military career, his impulsive and undisciplined nature has led to ...Show more
Scarpia by Piers Paul Read
Category: Fiction
Man is a delicate mechanism. he can easily be set off course. It is the late 18th century and nobleman Vitellio Scarpia finds himself, penniless and in disgrace, on the streets of Rome. After leaving his home, on a quest for a successful military career, his fiery passion has seen him expelled from the ...Show more
The Dreyfus Affair by Piers Paul Read
Category: Non-Fiction
Intelligent, ambitious and a rising star in the French artillery, Captain Alfred Dreyfus appeared to have everything: family, money, and the prospect of a post on the General Staff. But his rapid rise had also made him enemies - many of them aristocratic officers in the army's High Command who resented ...Show more
The Dreyfus Affair: The Story of the Most Infamous Miscarriage of Justice in French History by Piers Paul Read
Category: History
Intelligent, ambitious and a rising star in the French artillery, Captain Alfred Dreyfus appeared to have everything: family, money, and the prospect of a post on the General Staff. But his rapid rise had also made him enemies - many of them aristocratic officers in the army's High Command who resented ...Show more
The Misogynist by Piers Paul Read
Category: Fiction
Jomier has reached the age of retirement, his children are grown up and his wife, after having an affair, has left him. Embittered and humiliated, he lives alone in London, mourning the disintegration of his marriage as he broods about the past and the present. When he falls for Judith, things begin to ...Show more
The Templars by Piers Paul Read
Category: History
Read reveals the Templars - in their white tunics with red crosses over chainmail - as the first uniformed standing army in the Western world, as well as pioneers of international banking. He examines their fall at the hands of a greedy French king, who extracted confessions of heresy and immorality by ...Show more
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