Paul Read

#1 New York Times Bestseller: The true story behind Netflix’s Society of the Snow—A rugby team resorts to the unthinkable after a plane crash in the Andes.
Spirits were high when the Fairchild F-227 took off from Mendoza, Argentina, and headed for Santiago, Chile. On board were forty-five people, including an amateur rugby team from Uruguay and their friends and family. The skies were clear that Friday, October...

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 suffered deprivations beyond imagining, confronting nature head-on at its most furious and inhospitable. And to survive, these men and women not only had to keep their faith, they had to make an impossible decision:...

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 from an archaeological dig in Israel--and not long after, he's found dead, hanged in his room. It's only the first shocking discovery for his assistant, Andrew Nash, a young friar. The second is the reason...

Qu'est-ce que le taichi ? Pourquoi est-il enseigné comme un art martial par certains et comme une pratique de santé ou une façon de vivre par d'autres ? Quelles sont les origines de cet art et d'où viennent ses différents styles ? Qu'est-ce que la forme et combien de temps faut-il pour l'apprendre ? Voilà quelques-unes des 50 questions, à la fois simples et importantes, qui trouvent leur réponse dans ce livre fascinant, rempli d'anecdotes,...

Imagínese que la ciudad de Málaga es evacuada durante la noche. 150.000 personas caminando 200 kilómetros a lo largo de la carretera de la costa N-340 en busca de un refugio seguro, mientras eran perseguidos por tanques italianos y bombardeados tanto por la aviación alemana como por los buques de los sublevados. Hombres desarmados, mujeres y niños fueron disparados desde los aviones o asesinados por las explosiones desde los barcos que los persiguen...

The Manual of Bean Curd Boxing is a curious book, for unlike most writings on mindfulness, Tai Chi, or oriental philosophy, this humble manual shows you how to move beyond the words on the page. So many practices promise happiness, security, health, wisdom, or enlightenment, but so few deliver. Yet, when you fuse together an ancient eastern practice with a thoroughly 21st-century take - you create something beautifully intriguing and inspiringly...

Life has a habit of throwing obstacles in your path for a good reason: They arise to challenge the undaunted, or deter the uncommitted. Either way, when you stumble into a town that the guide books warn you away from, you must choose between quickly moving on, or staying to see what the obstacles conceal. When one man and his faithful hound turn their backs on the Mediterranean Sea and set out on a journey into the interior of Andalusia, they go in...

In 1937, George Orwell spent six months witnessing the rise and fall of a popular revolution on the streets of Barcelona and Catalonia. Alone amongst his contemporaries, Orwell understood what the success or failure of that Spanish Revolution would mean for the rest of the world. 1984 And The Spanish Civil War explores the background to the Civil War and the hidden anarchist revolution within a revolution. As Orwell arrives in Catalunya, he observes...

Bestseller #1 de The New York Times: La verdadera historia de un equipo de rugby que recurre a lo inimaginable cuando su avión se estrella en los Andes. Reinaba el buen ánimo cuando el Fairchild F-227 despegó desde Mendoza, Argentina, con rumbo a Santiago, Chile. Había cuarenta y cinco pasajeros a bordo, entre ellos un equipo de rugby amateur uruguayo y los amigos y parientes de los jugadores. El cielo estaba despejado ese viernes 13 de octubre...

Patrick Owen managed seven years at Highfields Secondary School without punching a pupil in the face. Unknowingly drawn into a war against his own pupils, Patrick's patience finally snaps as he finds himself the number one target with the boy the school just can't seem to expel. When one of his art students needs his help, she unwittingly pulls Patrick further into the line of fire, altering their lives forever. With the media circling and rumors...