Piers Paul Read

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books
  • First Book:
    September 1977
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • Polonaise

  • Train Robbers

    This is a gripping look at Britain's great train robbery. One night in August, 1963, robbers stopped a freight/mail train north of London and grabbed a then-record 2.6 million British pounds - worth over $40 million pounds ($60 million dollars) at th...

  • Upstart

    Hilary Fletcher is the clever son of a humble vicar. When his father takes up the living at Lasterby in Yorkshire, Hilary finds himself equally ill-at-ease in both the grand drawing rooms of the manor house and the earthy kitchen of his farmer uncle....

  • The Professor's Daughter

    This is a novel about a daughter of a high-powered Harvard professor who gets involved with one of her father's political students and with a plot to assassinate the local senator who also happens to be her mother's lover. Piers Paul Reed also wrote ...

  • Villa Golitsyn

  • Married Man

    A story by Tolstoy convinces John Strickland that he is not what he wants to be, and, blaming his wife for smothering his socialist ideas, he embarks on a career in politics and falls in love with a young woman...

  • Junkers

    He first saw the beautiful green-eyed girl in a cafe in Berlin. Months later, the young British diplomat met her again, and fell in love. But the more he learned about her past, and the aristocratic German Family from which she came, the more he wa...

  • Free Frenchman

  • A Season in the West

    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 trans...



  • On the Third Day

    Archaeologists in Jerusalem make a revolutionary discovery in this “beautifully written” thriller from a #1 New York Times"bestselling author (Ruth Rendell). John Lambert, Catholic priest and professor of biblical archaeology, returns to London...

  • The Patriot

    The author of Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors draws from a palette of love, theft, politics, and murder to create a thrilling new novel. Set in 1991, after the fall of the Wall, and one year later in Moscow, The Patriot tells of a Russian sec...

  • Anne Atkins Recommends: On the Third Day

  • Alice in Exile

    By critically acclaimed author Piers Paul Read, Alice in Exile is an exquisite historical novel featuring Alice Fry--a free-thinking and independent-minded woman in a world ruled by men--and the two men who love her. It is 1913 when Alice, the daught...

  • The Death of a Pope

    Juan Uriarte, a handsome and outspoken Spanish ex-priest, seems to be the model of nonviolence and compassion for the poor and downtrodden. So why is he on trial, accused of terrorist activities? His worldwide Catholic charitable outreach program is ...

  • The Dreyfus Affair

    July 20, 1894. The German Military Attache in Paris. Colonel Maximillien von Schwarzkoppen received a visit from a seedy-looking middle-aged Frenchman who would not give his name. He told Schwarzkoppen that he was a French army officer serving on the...

  • Monk Dawson

    'A remarkable novel. Witty, even cynical, observation leads to a conclusion profoundly moving.' - Graham Greene

    'Read is undoubtedly one of the most talented novelists of our generation.' - Francis King

    '[A] profoundly serious conte...

  • Knights of the Cross

    Michael Latham, once a leading expert on Soviet affairs, finds himself becalmed at the age of thirty-seven transcribing Russian language broadcasts at the BBC’s monitoring service in Caversham. His wife has left him; he is having an affair with a c...

  • Scarpia

    It is the late 18th century and Sicilian nobleman Vitello Scarpia finds himself penniless and in disgrace on the streets of Rome. After leaving his home in pursuit of a military career, his fiery passion has seen him expelled from the Spanish royal g...

  • The Misogynist



  • The Templars

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    The internationally bestselling author of Alive explores the rise, the catastrophic fall, and the far-reaching legacy of Knights of the Temple of Solomon.“This is an engrossing and beautifully written work of popular history that unfolds like a wel...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Piers Paul Read has published 20 books.

Piers Paul Read does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Misogynist, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Piers Paul Read, Polonaise, was published in September 1977.

No. Piers Paul Read does not write books in series.
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