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Alex Preston Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Alex Preston is an author and journalist Novelist. Reviews for @ObsNewReview. Writes for @TheEconomist @BazaarUK and @TelegraphMag. Oxford, Wealden & Corfu Lit Fests.

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Book Cover for: Jamie Macgillivray: The Renegade's Journey, John Sayles

Jamie Macgillivray: The Renegade's Journey

John Sayles
Alex PrestonAlex Preston

I reviewed @john_sayles magnificent 'Jamie MacGillivray' for @nytimes: https://t.co/MQLJfqwK6b

Hardcover, 2023

$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: All Fours, Miranda July

All Fours

Miranda July
Alex PrestonAlex Preston

A future classic about motherhood and mid-life sex for fans of Lorrie Moore and Sheila Heti. July – a celebrated film-maker – has written a novel that thrills at the level of the sentence and in its riot of ideas.

Hardcover, 2024

$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Glory

Noviolet Bulawayo
Alex PrestonAlex Preston

I so look forward to the annual email from @norcrosscricket in which he asks me to recommend novels as gifts for a well-read pal. This year I went for: Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer, To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara and Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo.

Paperback, 2023

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Istanbul: Memories and the City, Orhan Pamuk

Istanbul: Memories and the City

Orhan Pamuk
Alex PrestonAlex Preston

The first draft of Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence. In the museum of the same name in Istanbul. Brings the novel to life in such a rich and fascinating way. https://t.co/wACZsIxwhW

Paperback, 2006

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Dogs of the Deadlands: Shortlisted for the Week Junior Book Awards, Anthony McGowan

Dogs of the Deadlands: Shortlisted for the Week Junior Book Awards

Anthony McGowan
Alex PrestonAlex Preston

“Every so often a story comes along that makes you its prey, takes you in its jaws, shakes you — and you have no option but to go limp and submit
 a classic.” Here’s the first review of @anthony_mcgowan’s superb Dogs of the Deadlands. Yes! https://t.co/bfDZIrsnbP

Hardcover, 2022

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Birnam Wood, Eleanor Catton

Birnam Wood

Eleanor Catton
Alex PrestonAlex Preston

Birnam Wood is a dark and brilliant novel about the violence and tawdriness of late capitalism. Its ending, though, propels it from a merely very good book into a truly great one.

Paperback, 2024

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Crook Manifesto, Colson Whitehead

Crook Manifesto

Colson Whitehead
Alex PrestonAlex Preston


a delight, bringing depth and complexity to familiar characters, not least New York itself. Few writers combine depth of insight and compassion with exquisite prose; Whitehead is one of them. I’d rather read his novels than those of just about any other writer alive.

Paperback, 2024

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Dark Earth

Rebecca Stott
Alex PrestonAlex Preston

I adored @RebeccaStott64's Dark Earth. Full of wonderful writing and just such a brilliant concept. Like a dark and beautiful dream. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jun/12/dark-earth-by-rebecca-stott-review-magical-mythical-historical-fiction

Paperback, 2023

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Red Shift

Alan Garner
Alex PrestonAlex Preston

Amazing to listen to @ozekiland at @canongatebooks last night. I discovered, though, that neither she nor Karen Joy Fowler had heard of, let alone read, Alan Garner. They asked where to start
 Weirdstone? Red Shift? @prasifcat suggested Owl Service. @EricaWgnr @BacklistedPod https://t.co/28zsjFnr2O

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Book Cover for: Learwife, J. R. Thorp

Learwife

J. R. Thorp
Alex PrestonAlex Preston

Fab review of a book I loved. We selected this as one of our debuts of the year for ⁊@ObsNewReview⁩ - so glad others are falling under the spell of Learwife. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/dec/09/learwife-by-jr-thorp-review-out-of-shakespeares-shadows?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Paperback, 2023

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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