Alex Preston
Author and Critic at Freelance
Novelist. Reviews for @ObsNewReview. Writes for @TheEconomist @BazaarUK and @TelegraphMag. Oxford, Wealden & Corfu Lit Fests.
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1 week 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.
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3 weeks 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.
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1 month ago |
msn.com | Alex Preston
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Alex Preston
Raja 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. His first non-academic book, When the Bulbul Stopped Singing, chronicled the 2002 siege of his hometown, Ramallah, while Palestinian Walks, which won the Orwell prize, traced how Israel’s de facto occupation of the West Bank had fundamentally altered both its geography and its history.
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pax-intl.com | Alex Preston
April 10 2025 | Seating By Alex Preston in Hamburg, Germany All Nippon Airways (ANA) has extended its 35-year relationship with Recaro Aircraft Seating with the selection of the new R3 Economy Class and R4 Premium Class seats, designed specifically for its next-generation 787-9 cabins on international routes. The R4 premium class seats is designed with the latest technology and ergonomics to provide the highest level of comfort and usability.
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A miraculous book. Brings dinosaurs to life better than Jurassic Park.
Shortlisted for the @DuffCooperPrize A Book of the Year in @TheTLS, @TheEconomist, & @Bloomberg Described as "marvellous" (@GuardianBooks), "beautifully written" (@HistoryExtra) & "everything that popular scholarly history should be" (@Lit_Review) ... and now in paperback! https://t.co/1BNsSZCVZf
RT @anthony_mcgowan: Here's a little thing I wrote for @RathbonesGroup about becoming, late in the day, a dog person. https://t.co/nK6ybfQS…
Hadn’t read Joseph O’Connor since Redemption Falls. Loved Ghosts of Rome. So elegant and atmospheric. My review in @NYTimes https://t.co/I0cts3jUSY
