Nicbolas Wroe has a wonderful article in The Guardian UK about prolific Catholic writer and novelist Piers Paul Read. Read’s latest novel, The Misogynist, will be published this month by Bloomsbury.
Besides giving a nice little biographical sketch of Read, Wroe also writes at some length on the development of Read’s sometimes controversial social and political opinions, and quotes notable friends, such as playwright Tom Stoppard, who had this to say about Read:
I considered him one of the gang of really good novelists. And this commentator role he has assumed for himself is sort of admirable in that he writes with such confidence and conviction from a position that very few intellectual contemporaries would be able to take up. In other words absolute faith in God. And that’s the central fault line between him and many other people. Their view is that the here and now is all we’ve got. He says this is not all we’ve got.
For the rest of the article, click here.
To read Christine Sunderland’s review of Death of a Pope, click here.
Following “Catholic Fiction” proved its worth when you posted this link to Nicholas Wroe’s excellent article of Piers Paul Read. I discovered his “Death of a Pope” through my connection with Ignatius Press, who was fortunate enough to publish one of his novels. As a newcomer to the genre of Catholic literature, I was well rewarded in reading this novel, and prompted by the thoroughness in Wroe’s article, now have renewed hope of find others like Read.