Alex Preston

1 week ago | pax-intl.com | Alex Preston

June 18 2025  |  Airline & Terminal News By Alex Preston This is a special feature from the June/July 2025 Seating & IFEC issue of PAX Tech on page 10. Riyadh Air, Saudi Arabia’s newest national airline, may well consider itself a digital start-up, but in wanting to disrupt the aviation industry it has clearly paid attention to the subtle hard and soft product touches that define a premium international airline.

1 week ago | pax-intl.com | Alex Preston

June 18 2025  |  Seating By Alex Preston This is a special feature from the June/July 2025 Seating & IFEC issue of PAX Tech on page 12. Influenced by evolving passenger preferences, there has been a shift onboard toward premium products and differentiation, and airlines are increasingly investing in premium seating solutions. Air New Zealand is a recent case in point.

1 month ago | observer.co.uk | Alex Preston

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 In the summer of 2000, Julian Hoffman and his wife, Julia, read a book review in an RSPB magazine and it changed their lives. The book was Prespa, by the Greek biologist Giorgos Catsadorakis, a paean to a remote lake in the high borderlands of northern Greece, where pelicans and bee-eaters soar and wolves come down to drink at dusk.

1 month ago | observer.co.uk | Alex Preston

The Magpie River in Quebec, Canada. ‘Macfarlane’s words become the stream, pouring forth without interruption.’ Traversing four water systems around the world, Robert Macfarlane calls for rivers to be recognised as living beings in a powerful confluence of environmentalism and sublime prose Is a River Alive? Robert MacfarlaneHamish Hamilton, £25, pp384Two or three times a week, I run down from the hill on which I live in the Sussex Weald to swim in the River Rother.

2 months ago | portside.org | Penny Johnson |Alex Preston

Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials Published April 23, 2025 ForgottenSearching for Palestine's Hidden Places and Lost MemorialsRaja Shehadeh and Penny JohnsonOther PressISBN: 978-1-63542-474-4Raja Shehadeh – lawyer, activist and Palestine’s greatest prose writer – has long been a voice of sanity and measure in the fraught, tendentious world of Arab-Israeli politics.