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Hardcover ISBN: 9781408805657 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC reviewed by Roy Peachey The Misogynist is well-written, psychologically astute and wryly amusing. It also has a clever twist at the end which I won’t give away here. However, what it is not is the straightforward story of a misogynist. Misogyny is there but it is not the [...]
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 [...]
San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2009), 215 pages. Reviewed by Christine Sunderland This thoughtful literary thriller addresses weighty and timely themes: not only challenges to belief in an unbelieving world, but the devastation of AIDS and sexual license, the disparity between first and third worlds, rich and poor, and the role of a Church guided by [...]
National Catholic Register journalist Tim Drake has published an interview with Catholic novelist Piers Paul Read, author of Death of a Pope (which is on my to-read-next pile). The article is online at the Register site, but you need to be a subscriber to read it. Here’s my favorite quote: Are there ways that you [...]
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