Piers Paul Read
Piers Paul Read, the son of poet and art critic Sir Herbert Read, was raised in North Yorkshire, was educated by Benedictine monks at Ampleforth College, and was a student of history at Cambridge University. Before publishing his first novel, Game in Heaven, he worked as a subeditor on the Times Literary Supplement. His fiction and nonfiction has won many awards, and several of his works have been adapted for television or film.
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Alive
- By: Piers Paul Read
- Narrator: Paul Ansdell
- Length: 11 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: May 16, 2017
- Language: English
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On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Out of the forty-five original passengers and crew, only sixteen made it off the mountain alive. For ten excruciating weeks, they... Read more
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