Books by Alex Preston
Alex Preston is an award-winning author of five novels, including This Bleeding City, The Revelations, In Love and War and Winchelsea, as well as a book of nonfiction, As Kingfishers Catch Fire. He writes regularly for the New York Times, the Economist and Harper’s Bazaar. He reviews books for the Observer’s New Review, Financial Times and Spectator. Alex is co-founder of the Corfu Literary Festival and Patron of Oxford Literary Festival.
“This is by a banker who is an English literature graduate and has the narrative here that shows what it was like to be in the thick of it, on the frontline, during the credit crunch, what it was like on the inside. But, more than that, it’s a good book because it’s a real proper novel. It starts off at university and it is part of that not-very-much-discussed problem that is the shift from having been part of a happy group of students to suddenly being in the world of work.” Read more...
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Interviews with Alex Preston
The Best Literary Spy Novels, recommended by Alex Preston
The best spy fiction combines the genre’s thrills and intrigue with profound moral and existential questions about what it means to be human, argues novelist Alex Preston. Here, he discusses five of his favourite literary spy novels, ranging from colonial Vietnam to contemporary London.
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The best books on Why We Live in a Mad World, recommended by Oliver James
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