A Stranger in Corfu

A Stranger in Corfu

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Review Quotes: "The depth of characterization and the wealth of stunning descriptions hold this espionage thriller together. A heart-wrenching way to show spy lives."-- Booklist, starred review Biographical Note: Alex Preston is an award-winning author...

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Review Quotes:
"The depth of characterization and the wealth of stunning descriptions hold this espionage thriller together. A heart-wrenching way to show spy lives."-- Booklist, starred review

Biographical Note:
Alex Preston is an award-winning author of five novels published in Britain, including This Bleeding City, The Revelations, In Love and War, and Winchelsea, as well as the nonfiction book As Kingfishers Catch Fire. He writes regularly for The New York Times, The Economist, and Harper's Bazaar. He reviews books for The Observer's New Review, Financial Times, and The Spectator. Alex is co-founder of the Corfu Literary Festival and Patron of Oxford Literary Festival. He lives in England.

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Early praise for A Stranger in Corfu:

"A beautiful, devastating, and multi-layered tour de force which brings Greece vividly to life."-- Charles Cumming, author of The Moroccan Girl and Box 88

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"John le Carré meets The Durrells. A Stranger is Corfu is a brilliantly atmospheric thriller. Suspenseful, vivid, and impossible to put down."-- Tom Holland, author of Pax, Dominon, and Millenium

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"Imagine the Slow Horses had parents who were also spies. Imagine those parents were on a small island, just off Corfu. Imagine that their chequered pasts might be catching up with them. And then realise you don't need to imagine it because Alex Preston has done it for you with this beautifully taut, clever, classy thriller."-- Natalie Haynes, author of A Thousand Ships and No Friend to This House

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"Taut, tense and utterly gripping: Preston evokes a wonderfully thrilling story from the dreamy Ioanian. Nothing short of brilliant."-- Adam Rutherford, author of The Book of Humans

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"A beautiful, taut novel laced with the thrills of lives half-lived and never escaped; of friendship, love and relentless betrayal beneath Corfu's blazing sun and the restless, dark sea--where secrets threaten to drown them all. A story that haunts long after the last page."-- Evie Wyld, author of The Echoes

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"A stylish literary spy novel in which Agatha Christie meets the Cambridge Five, set on a sun-soaked island off Corfu. Sophisticated and stylishly self-aware, it weaves political intrigue with lyrical prose in an artful reimagining of the classic spy story."-- Sarah Churchwell, author of The Wrath to Come

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"A gripping thriller that explores the lives shaped--and shattered--by Cold War politics in Europe's southern fringe. Preston captures the fractured legacy of British intelligence and the ghosts it leaves behind with haunting precision. I was captivated from start to finish."-- Peter Frankopan, author of The Earth Transformed and The New Silk Road

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"Gripping, dark and clever: spies with troubled backstories; a small island off Corfu; Albania just across the water. It will be huge."-- Sofka Zinocieff, author of The House on Paradise Street

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"I read it in one breathless sitting. A Stranger in Corfu is vivid and compulsive, elegant and clever. I loved it."-- Francesca Segal, author of Island Calling

Review Citations:

  • Booklist 05/01/2026 (EAN 9798897101603, Hardcover) - *Starred Review
  • Library Journal 06/01/2026 pg. 63 (EAN 9798897101603, Hardcover)
  • Publishers Weekly 06/01/2026 (EAN 9798897101603, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:Preston, Alex
Alex Preston is an award-winning author of five novels published in Britain, including This Bleeding City, The Revelations, In Love and War, and Winchelsea, as well as the nonfiction book As Kingfishers Catch Fire. He writes regularly for The New York Times, The Economist, and Harper's Bazaar. He reviews books for The Observer's New Review, Financial Times, and The Spectator. Alex is co-founder of the Corfu Literary Festival and Patron of Oxford Literary Festival. He lives in England.