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Globe and Mail, May 18, 2012
...Chief Inspector Armand Gamache mystery, The Beautiful Mystery, is to be published in August. A Married Man, by Piers Paul Read, was published in 1980. I keep talking about this book, hoping that someone will reissue it; it is out of print. Its a...
Londonist, March 21, 2012
...get together at The Book Club for some ‘zine poetry and an open mic lucky dip (8pm, free). Piers Paul Read tells you everything you ever wanted to know about the Dreyfus Affair, at Daunt Books in Marylebone (7pm, £8). Poetry in Translation puts...
Guardian.co.uk, February 16, 2012
...to a rigid and even intolerant secularism whose damaging consequences are felt to this day. In this company, Piers Paul Read's The Dreyfus Affair feels somewhat poorly timed and redundant, and all the more so since it is based on a very thin job of...
Jewish Chronicle, February 9, 2012
...Piers Paul Read, the writer of a new book about the 1894 Dreyfus Affair, was criticised this week after saying that the French soldier's treatment could be linked to Jews...
Spectator, February 9, 2012
...had divided France half a century before Maurras was put on trial in Lyon. The division between what Piers Paul Read, in this masterly and eminently balanced account of the Affair, calls ‘the France of St Louis and the France of Voltaire’ had never...
The Independent, February 3, 2012
...been vindicated. The Dreyfus saga calls for the arts of the novelist, and it has found one in Piers Paul Read. With 600 previous volumes on the topic, he has no new discoveries. Nor does he do much to project Dreyfus against the ideological clashes of...
The Independent, March 2, 2012
...their responsibility for any hatred of which they are the object? "If I was Jewish," the writer Piers Paul Read said on Front Row the other week, "I would want to know why people were anti-Semitic." Piers Paul Read is the author of The Dreyfus Affair, the...
Telegraph, February 21, 2012
...any other food, they ate the dead bodies of their fellow passengers. In extreme situations like this, says Piers Paul Read, the novelist who interviewed those who were eventually rescued for his book, Alive, it is often strong family ties that give...
Telegraph, February 21, 2012
...any other food, they ate the dead bodies of their fellow passengers. In extreme situations like this, says Piers Paul Read, the novelist who interviewed those who were eventually rescued for his book, Alive, it is often strong family ties that give...
Guardian.co.uk, February 16, 2012
...to a rigid and even intolerant secularism whose damaging consequences are felt to this day. In this company, Piers Paul Read's The Dreyfus Affair feels somewhat poorly timed and redundant, and all the more so since it is based on a very thin job of...
Jewish Chronicle, February 9, 2012
...Piers Paul Read, the writer of a new book about the 1894 Dreyfus Affair, was criticised this week after saying that the French soldier's treatment could be linked to Jews...
Spectator, February 9, 2012
...had divided France half a century before Maurras was put on trial in Lyon. The division between what Piers Paul Read, in this masterly and eminently balanced account of the Affair, calls ‘the France of St Louis and the France of Voltaire’ had never...
The Independent, February 3, 2012
...been vindicated. The Dreyfus saga calls for the arts of the novelist, and it has found one in Piers Paul Read. With 600 previous volumes on the topic, he has no new discoveries. Nor does he do much to project Dreyfus against the ideological clashes of...
