Alex Preston was born in 1979. He lives in London with his wife and two children. His first novel, This Bleeding City, won the Spear's and Edinburgh Festival first book prizes, was selected as one of Waterstone'sNew Voices 2010 and has been translated into twelve languages. Alex is a regular panelist on the BBC Review Show and writes a fortnightly column in the New Statesman, as well as journalism for GQ, The Observer, The Independent and The Telegraph. He studied English under Tom Paulin at Hertford College, Oxford