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Piers Paul Read


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Novelist and playwright Piers Paul Read was born in Beaconsfield, England on March 7, 1941. He was educated by Benedictine Monks at Ampleforth College, York and also at St. John's College, Cambridge.

Piers Paul Read is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a member of the Council of the Society of Authors. He has also written a number of television plays, and several of his novels have been adapted for film and television. He lives in London.
 

Awards: James Tait Black (1988), SoA (1970)  see all

Genres: Inspirational
 
Novels
   Game in Heaven with Tussy Marx (1966)
   The Junkers (1968)
   The Free Frenchman (1968)
   Monk Dawson (1969)
   The Professor's Daughter (1971)
   The Upstart (1973)
   Polonaise (1976)
   A Married Man (1979)
   The Villa Golitsyn (1981)
   A Season in the West (1988)
   On the Third Day (1990)
   A Patriot in Berlin (1995)
     aka The Patriot
   Knights of the Cross (1997)
   Alice in Exile (2001)
   The Death of a Pope (2009)
   The Misogynist (2010)
   Scarpia (2015)
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Non fiction show
 
Awards
1988 James Tait Black Memorial Prize : A Season in the West
1970 Somerset Maugham Award : Monk Dawson

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How to Betray Your Country (2021)
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The Society of Others (2004)
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"A novel I would dearly love to have written... Exciting, funny, wise, and beautifully written... Nicholson has to my mind established himself with this first work of adult fiction as one of the best novelists around."

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