Articles By Piers Paul Read
March 2013
Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation surprised the world, but the elderly pontiff leaves office having accomplished his mission
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May 2012
As dissenters are labelled bigots and homophobes in the same-sex marriage debate; has Britain become too intolerant for free speech?
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April 2012
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January/February 2012
Zola inspired other writers and artists to defend the jailed Jewish officer. Yet he himself was not free of the taint of anti-Semitism
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July/August 2011
Book review of G.K. Chesterton: A Biography by Ian Ker
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May 2011
A.C. Grayling's not-so-good book just reinforces quite how special are other holy texts
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July/August 2010
Men are living for longer than ever and their late-life crises provide a rich seam for the novelist to mine
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July/August 2009
‘In the 1950s, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene wrote triumphalist Catholic novels with miracles as part of the story — Brideshead Revisited, The End of the Affair. They were bestsellers. Since Vatican II, however, the tenor of Catholic fiction has been doubt, dissent and disillusion.’
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June 2009
Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor by Eamon Duffy
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September 2008
Our Times. The Age of Elizabeth II by A.N. Wilson
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About Piers Paul Read
Piers Paul Read is the author of reportage (Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors), history (The Templars), biography (Alec Guinness), collected journalism and fiction. His latest book is The Dreyfus Affair (Bloomsbury, 2012).
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