Alex Preston

Alex Preston was born in 1979. He lives in Kent. He is the prize-winning author of five novels and a book of nature writing. He writes for the Financial Times, The Economist and Harper’s Bazaar, and reviews books for The Observer’s New Review and The New York Times.

He co-founded the Corfu Literary Festival and is patron of Oxford and Wealden Literary Festivals. He studied English under Tom Paulin at Hertford College, Oxford, and holds a PhD on Violence in the Modern Novel from UCL.