Alex Preston
@alexpreston.bsky.social
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Novelist: Winchelsea, In Love and War, This Bleeding City. Words in Observer, FT and Harper’s.
It comes around faster each year... Time to hmu with your novels of 2026 for the Observer New Review look-ahead. No debuts (done in the best debut fiction feature on the planet) stone cold bangers only pls. Nove(l)mber reading marathon here we go.
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I am so looking forward to this. The book is extraordinary and he’s obviously a ledge.
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/seb...
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Sebastian Faulks: A Life in Writing | Southbank Centre
https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/sebastian-faulks-a-life-in-writing/
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Canongate
3 months ago
Excited to reveal the cover for A Stranger in Corfu - a spy novel with a difference! Following former MI6 agents, who are living in enforced retirement in Corfu when their pasts come back to haunt them, it’s a vivid reimagining of a true slice of British Intelligence history, told with huge skill.
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So thrilled that
@canongate.co.uk
will be publishing A Stranger in Corfu in February. A retirement home for spies, secrets that rise up from the past, the beauty of Greece.
@waterstones.bsky.social
are offering a big preorder discount on the hardback here:
buythebook.online/astrangerinc...
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This is very exciting. Michael has done a wonderful job of pulling together the memoirs and letters of my great-great-great grandfather. Massive ledge, obvs.
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Loved the courage-giving expansiveness of Lifelines by
@julianhoffman.bsky.social
- here’s my review in The Observer.
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
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Why Julian Hoffman left London for a wild Greek lake | The Observer
Born of a spontaneous decision to up sticks for the Grecian wilderness, Julian Hoffman’s poetic memoir is an inspiring call to throw caution to the wind
https://observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/a-new-start-in-a-strange-land
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9 months ago
This by
@alexpreston.bsky.social
on the great Raja Shehadeh is good.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials review – existence is resistance
In mapping the Palestinian history and culture that persists despite Israeli suppression, Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson display a strength of purpose and a promise of hope
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/13/forgotten-searching-for-palestines-hidden-places-and-lost-memorials-review-existence-is-resistance
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Reading
@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social
on the life and beauty of rivers while sailing towards Aswan on the Nile.
10 months ago
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This was a fascinating book. Full of deep research and righteous anger…
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Just loved Ben Markovits’s latest. A peculiar, ultimately uplifting midlife Odyssey. Massive recommendation. Here are my thoughts in the Observer.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits review – a triumphant twist on the great American road novel
Fleeing a failing marriage and culture war battles, a man drives away from the wreckage of his past
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/11/the-rest-of-our-lives-by-ben-markovits-review
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Oliver
10 months ago
Are you sure you don't mean Scandinavian Airlines,
@theguardian.com
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Lofoten is pretty close to heaven. Love it so much here.
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First Bluesky post - green sky! In Lofoten, Norway.
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