Bøger af Alex Preston

De jonge en ambitieuze Charlie Wales kan niet wachten om zijn dromen waar te maken met zijn nieuwe baan bij hedgefonds Silverbirch in hartje Londen. Al gauw wordt hij de keiharde zakenwereld ingezogen en behoren drugs, drank en prostituees tot zijn nieuwe werkelijkheid. Is dit waar hij altijd van gedroomd had? Als in 2007 de financiële crisis uitbreekt, ziet hij een uitweg om zijn verstikkende carrière vol corruptie achter zich te laten. Maar is er nog wel een weg terug voor Charlie? ‘Deze bloedende stad’ is het grote debuut van schrijver Alex Preston en ontving maar liefst twee gerenommeerde Britse debuutprijzen in 2010. Inmiddels is zijn boek in meer dan twaalf talen vertaald. Een fantastisch debuut - WaterstonesEen boek dat laat zien wat de financiële crisis met emoties kan doen - The GuardianHet eerste insidersverslag over het leven van een trader tijdens de crisis - Evening StandardAlex Preston (1979) is een Britse auteur en journalist met een achtergrond in de financiële zakenwereld, waar hij onder meer bij ABN AMRO werkzaam was. In zijn geprezen debuut ‘Deze bloedende wereld’ beschrijft hij het leven van een jonge bankier in Londen die getergd wordt door de financiële crisis in 2007. Dat boek is in meer dan twaalf talen verschenen en won twee belangrijke Britse debuutprijzen in 2010. Preston is regelmatig te horen en te zien op BBC radio en televisie. .

As Kingfishers Catch Fire: Birds and Books is an illustrated and visually stunning exploration of birds in literature, from Ovid to Ted Hughes.

In Love and War weaves fact and fiction to create a sweeping portrait of a city at war. The novel is told through the eyes, letters and journals of Esmond Lowndes, who comes to Italy a lost and lonely young man in the shadow of his politician father. Through his friendships with a striking cast of contemporary characters, from the poet Ezra Pound to Alice Keppel, a former royal mistress, Esmond begins to leave his early disappointments behind him. On the cobbles of Florence's many-storied streets, he deepens his appreciation of art and literature, and falls in love.With the coming of war, Esmond finds himself stranded in a city of enemies, hunted by the malevolent Mario Carita, head of the Fascist secret police. He retreats into the hills above Florence, taking with him a painting that has come to assert a profound hold over him. When the Nazis arrive, Esmond is drawn into Giustizia e Liberta, the Resistance movement, and is soon helping to spirit refugees to safety, to hide the city's Jews. With his lover, Ada, at his side, he is at the centre of assassination plots, shoot-outs and car chases, culminating in a final mission of extraordinary daring.In Love and War is a novel that will take you deep into the secret heart of history, meticulously researched and full of period detail. It is a novel of art and letters, of bawdy raconteurs and dashing spies. With Esmond Lowndes you will see the beauty of Florence as never before, and feel the horror of war as it sweeps over the city's terracotta rooftops. Inspired by a host of real-life stories, In Love and War is both epic and intimate, harrowing and heartwarming.

A group of young people are searching for meaning in a dark and directionless world. The Course, a religious movement led by a charismatic priest, seems at first to offer everything the friends have been looking for: a community of bright, thoughtful, beautiful people. But as they are drawn deeper into the Course, money, sex and God collide, threatening to rip them apart. This gripping novel of ideas lays bare a world where the advancement of a movement becomes more important than the lives of its followers.

Charlie Wales is a young man who wants everything. Fresh from University he's seduced by the excitement of a new life in London that promises sex, sophistication and lots of money. There's Vero, the beautiful French girlwho might finally fall for him. Unemployed, there's the lure of art but also the promise of fast money in the City. And his friends are all spiralling into a world of drink, drugs and selfish greed. But as the choices begin to tear him apart, there's also the danger that all the things he desires are on the brink of crashing around him... This debut novel, written by a 30-year-old bond trader, does not merely pick over the carcass of the financial markets in the wake of the recent crash. It is also a heartbreaking love story, a withering study of the years of excess, and a touching contemplation of how good people end up doing terrible things.