Piers Paul Read

Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors is a 1974 book by the British writer Piers Paul Read documenting the events of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571.

Every August, barrister John Strickland leaves London for the annual holiday at his wife Clare s family home in Norfolk. This year, on a lazy summer s afternoon Strickland, reads something that changes his life for good. All that Strickland has accepted as the way things are, for good or bad, is turned on its head. In …

Life for the aristocracy was difficult, thier land was falling into the hands ofthe aristocracy.The Kornowski family have to make there ends meat...