Background
Preston was born on 18 January 1979, in the seaside town of Worthing in West Sussex, in Southern England.
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Preston was educated at Lancing College, a boarding independent school on the South Downs, near the village of Lancing in West Sussex, followed by at the University of Oxford.
Career
Preston"s first novel, This Bleeding City, was published by Faber and Faber in March 2010. lieutenant has been translated into twelve languages. His second novel, The Revelations was published in February 2012.
Preston reviews books for a number of national newspapers and magazines and is a regular panelist on BBC2"s The Review Show.
Alex Preston is the brother of Samuel Preston, the former singer of The Ordinary Boys and Celebrity Big Brother contestant. He is the grandson of Princeton University English professor and literary critic, Samuel Hynes.
Preston appears for the Authors Cricket Club. He became notable as player-umpire for asking of fellow novelist Richard Beard, "Do you think you were out?" to a bellowed LBW appeal.
