Alex Preston

How the beaches, culture and people of Corfu hit me for six A cricket match kindled my love affair with the Greek island, inspiring both a literary festival and my new novel

Lovely tribute to the island of Corfu, its generous hospitality and its magical literary festival by @alexpreston.bsky.social. So looking forward to his new book, A Stranger in Corfu, that's out now!
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Little Atoms 986 - Alex Preston's A Stranger in Corfu | Little Atoms

On today's new Little Atoms podcast @alexpreston.bsky.social on his brilliant new novel A Stranger in Corfu. Out now from @canongate.co.uk. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here:

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‘Preston captures the fractured legacy of British Intelligence and the ghosts it leaves behind with haunting precision. I was captivated from start to finish.’ Peter Frankopan

A STRANGER IN CORFU is out today @alexpreston.bsky.social

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.

Sebastian Faulks: A Life in Writing | Southbank Centre

I am so looking forward to this. The book is extraordinary and he’s obviously a ledge. www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/seb...

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.

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...

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.

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

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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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

This by @alexpreston.bsky.social on the great Raja Shehadeh is good.

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Reading @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social on the life and beauty of rivers while sailing towards Aswan on the Nile.

This was a fascinating book. Full of deep research and righteous anger…

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

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...

Are you sure you don't mean Scandinavian Airlines, @theguardian.com ?

Lofoten is pretty close to heaven. Love it so much here.

First Bluesky post - green sky! In Lofoten, Norway.