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Canongate @canongate.co.uk · 1d

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.

Alex Preston @alexpreston.bsky.social · 1d

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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Alex Preston @alexpreston.bsky.social · 1d

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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Alex Preston @alexpreston.bsky.social · Jun 2

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.

Michael Taylor @mhtaylor.bsky.social · Jun 2

It's (online) publication day!

Delighted to have edited the latest volume in @royalhistsoc.org's Camden Series for @cambridgeup.bsky.social

@alexpreston.bsky.social

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Latest volume | Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series | Cambridge Core

Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series

www.cambridge.org

Alex Preston @alexpreston.bsky.social · May 27

Loved the courage-giving expansiveness of Lifelines by @julianhoffman.bsky.social - here’s my review in The Observer. observer.co.uk/culture/book...

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

observer.co.uk

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Alex Preston @alexpreston.bsky.social · Apr 14

Thanks!

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katewebb-uk.bsky.social @katewebb-uk.bsky.social · Apr 13

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

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

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

www.theguardian.com

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Alex Preston @alexpreston.bsky.social · Apr 3

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

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Alex Preston @alexpreston.bsky.social · Mar 31

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

Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · Mar 30

Paul Lashmar’s ‘Drax of Drax Hall’ isn’t just a look into the dark sources of one family’s fortune; it’s an indictment of a nation’s refusal to reckon with its past. Review by @alexpreston.bsky.social @paullashmar.bsky.social

Drax of Drax Hall by Paul Lashmar review – forensic exposé of a British dynasty built on slavery

This timely and important book reveals Barbados plantation owner James Drax to be the equal of Robert Clive or Cecil Rhodes in his profiteering from human misery

www.theguardian.com

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Alex Preston @alexpreston.bsky.social · Mar 21

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...