Alex Preston Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Alex Preston

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

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This time last year I began reading for the @ObsNewReview Debut Novelists of the Year feature. The first book I came to was @Doug_D_Stuart’s ‘Shuggie Bain’. Mind blown. 2021’s crop has a lot to live up to.

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This novel... contains all the exuberance and eccentricity, all the deep thought and resounding mythology of [Garner's] best work... cramming into its 150-odd pages more ideas and imagination than most authors manage in their whole careers.

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This is a really wonderful, hopeful piece by ⁦@kamilashamsie⁩. What an extraordinary writer she is. Feel so lucky to have had an early read of her AMAZING new novel, Best of Friends. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/23/hostile-environment-theresa-may-priti-patel-rwanda-deportation?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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A masterly tale... Sure-footed, comfortably managing at once to deliver all the pleasures of the genre while also subtly undercutting and questioning them... I'm not sure that there's a more reliably entertaining novelist working today.

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Jonathan Coe’s recent run of absolute stunners continue. Adored this - warm hearted and sharp-witted and brilliant on how we live now. My review of Bournville in today’s ⁦@ObsNewReview⁩. https://t.co/LoniQg6R3S

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…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.

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I reviewed Ali Smith’s glorious Companion Piece in ⁦@ObsNewReview⁩. What a wonderful, warm-hearted writer she is. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/27/companion-piece-by-ali-smith-review-scintillating-tales-across-the-centuries?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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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

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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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