Piers Paul Read, Author . St. Martin's/Dunne $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-30398-3
Delicately nuanced and stylish, this work of historical fiction from prolific Londoner Read (The Templars,
etc.) elegantly captures the life and loves of strong-willed, free-spirited Alice Fry, a suffragette in early 20th-century Britain. As the...
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Piers Paul Read, Author . Simon & Schuster $35 (632p) ISBN 978-0-7432-4498-5
When Guinness died in 2000, his widow designated Read (Alive!
) as the actor's authorized biographer, and the results are mixed. Read doesn't allow his friendship with Guinness to interfere with an honest account of some unsavory aspects of...
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Piers Paul Read, Author . Ignatius $21.95 (215p) ISBN 978-1-58617-295-4
Centered on the final days of Pope John Paul II, Read's uneven thriller will appeal mainly to those interested in Catholic theology. British journalist Kate Ramsey, who's covering the Old Bailey trial of three men accused by MI6 of...
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Piers Paul Read, Author St. Martin's Press $27.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-26658-5
The Knights Templar are not very well known today; but many of those who know them consider them as a corrupt order of monks who administered a citadel in Jerusalem during the Crusades. Arguing that the Templars deserve a better reputation than this,
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Piers Paul Read, Author Random House (NY) $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-394-57530-8
Set in London, Read's latest novel is a morality tale reminiscent of his memorable A Married Man . Defecting from Czechoslovakia, writer Josef Birek is taken under the wing of Laura Morton, the wife of a wealthy banker, who works part-time as a...
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Piers Paul Read, Author Random House (NY) $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-40819-2
Read's taut, riveting probe of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant explosion and its aftermath reveals the full magnitude of the disaster as perhaps no other book has done. The English journalist ( Alive ) spent months in Russia, Byelorussia and...
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Piers Paul Read, Author Random House (NY) $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-44544-9
Read (Game in Heaven with Tussy Marx) is a fine, sometimes masterful, novelist--but a savvy thriller-writer he's not, as evidenced by this plunge into the genre set amongst spies and revolutionaries in the Berlin and Moscow of the early 1990s. As...
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Piers Paul Read. Bloomsbury Press, $30 (416p) ISBN 978-1-60819-432-2
The wrongful 1895 conviction of French-Jewish army captain Alfred Dreyfus as a German spy was based on fabricated evidence. But though innocent, according to Read, a British writer known for Catholic-themed novels who sees the Dreyfus affair as a...
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Piers Paul Read. Bloomsbury, $27 (384p) ISBN 978-1-63286-324-9
Read's galloping story follows the history of Italy and the rest of Europe during the time of the French Revolution. The plot hangs lightly on the tale told in Giacomo Puccini's renowned opera Tosca. But Puccini's work was based on a play by an anti-
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