About
Alex Preston was born in 1979. He lives in London with his wife and two children. He used to work as a trader for The Carlyle Group and is now studying for his PhD full-time. This Bleeding City is his first novel, and is published by Faber in the UK, Allen and Unwin in Australia, People’s Literature Publishing House in China, Elliot Edizioni in Italy and Prometheus in Holland. Alex also writes a fortnightly column in the New Statesman and the lyrics of some of his brother’s songs. He studied English under Tom Paulin at Hertford College, Oxford.