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Piers Paul Read

December 2015

  • Maria Callas with Renato Cioni in Franco Zeffirelli’s 1964 production of Tosca at Covent Garden, London.

    Scarpia by Piers Paul Read review – an Italian tour from an old master

    A reworking of Tosca sees the knife-wielding diva as a victim of divine providence

October 2012

  • Alive by Piers Paul Read - review

    By Victoria Segal

February 2012

  • Innocent At Last

    Book of the week
    The Dreyfus Affair by Piers Paul Read - review

    David A Bell on the Dreyfus affair told from the Catholic point of view

June 2011

  • Great train robbers Roger Cordrey, Buster Edwards and Bruce Reynolds in 1979

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 9 June 1978: Train robbers face student apathy

    Originally published in the Guardian on 9 June 1978: The Great Train Robbers went to the Cambridge Union yesterday and turned out to be a flop. Only about a hundred students heard their words of wisdom and a speech from their shepherd and biographer, Piers Paul Read

August 2010

  • Digested read
    The Misogynist by Piers Paul Read

    Bloomsbury, £16.99

July 2010

  • The Misogynist by Piers Paul Read

  • Piers Paul Read

    Women are happy to let feminists get bashed

    Hannah Betts
  • Piers Paul Read

    The Misogynist by Piers Paul Read

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    A life in ...
    A life in books: Piers Paul Read

May 2009

  • Billy Graham Crusade

    Where would we be without God?

    Review: God Is Back by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge and Reason, Faith and Revolution by Terry Eagleton
    Despite the vocal objections of crusading atheists, religion is a resurgent force across the world, finds Piers Paul Read

October 2003

  • Guinness: the black stuff

    Great actor, tormented human being, oblique biography. Rachel Cooke assesses Piers Paul Read's authorised biography of Alec Guinness

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