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Alex Preston
(b.1979)Alex Preston was born in 1979. He lives in London with his wife and two children. His first novel, This Bleeding City, won the Spear's and Edinburgh Festival first book prizes. Alex is a regular panelist on the BBC Review Show and writes a fortnightly column in the New Statesman. He studied English under Tom Paulin at Hertford College, Oxford.
Genres: Historical, Mystery
Novels
Novellas and Short Stories
Exquisite Corpse (2013) (with Naomi Alderman, Stella Duffy, Joe Dunthorne, Stuart Evers, Vanessa Gebbie, Matt Haig, Kamila Shamsie, Marcel Theroux and G Willow Wilson)
Anthologies edited
Alex Preston recommends
Pet (2023)
Catherine Chidgey
"A dark and compelling story of guilt and betrayal. Add to it a near-perfect plot twist and you have a novel that lives long in the mind."
These Days (2022)
Lucy Caldwell
"A novel of enormous heart; full of luminous passages of prose, this tale of the Belfast blitz is breathtakingly good."
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