Mario Gilbert Priester-Reading (10 August 1953 – 29 January 2017) was a British
author
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.
Reading was born in
Bournemouth
Bournemouth ( ) is a coastal resort town in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole unitary authority area, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. At the 2021 census, the built-up area had a population of 196,455, making it the largest ...
in 1953, son of Gordon and Lieselotte Reading. He was brought up in England, Germany, and the South of France, and educated at
Rugby School
Rugby School is a Public school (United Kingdom), private boarding school for pupils aged 13–18, located in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire in England.
Founded in 1567 as a free grammar school for local boys, it is one of the oldest independ ...
and at the
University of East Anglia
The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a Public university, public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus university, campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and twenty-six schools of ...
, where he studied Comparative Literature under
Malcolm Bradbury
Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury, (7 September 1932 – 27 November 2000) was an English author and academic.
Life
Bradbury was born in Sheffield, the son of a railwayman. His family moved to London in 1935, but returned to Sheffield in 1941 wit ...
and
Angus Wilson
Sir Angus Frank Johnstone-Wilson (11 August 191331 May 1991) was an English novelist and short story writer. He was one of England's first openly gay authors. He was awarded the 1958 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for '' The Middle Age of Mrs ...
.
His novels include ''The Music-Makers'', and the bestselling Antichrist Trilogy (which has sold more than a million copies in 39 countries), comprising ''The Nostradamus Prophecies'', ''The Mayan Codex'', and ''The Third Antichrist''. His newest series of novels features photojournalist John "The Templar" Hart: ''The Templar Prophecy'' came out in 2014, ''The Templar Inheritance'' in April 2015, and ''The Templar Succession'', appeared in April 2016.
After years of battling cancer, Reading died on 29 January 2017.
Novels
*''The Music-Makers''
*''The Nostradamus Prophecies''
*''The Mayan Codex''
*''The Third Antichrist''
*''The Templar Prophecy''
*''The Templar Inheritance''
*''The Templar Succession''
*''The Occupation Secret''
Non-Fiction
*''The Dictionary Of Cinema''
*''The Movie Companion''
*''The Watkins Dictionary Of Dreams''
*''Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies For The Future''
*''Nostradamus: The Good News''
*''The Complete Prophecies Of Nostradamus''
*''Nostradamus: The Top 100 Prophecies''
References
External links
Official Website
1953 births
2017 deaths
People educated at Rugby School
Alumni of the University of East Anglia
Writers from Bournemouth
Mensans
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