A Stranger in Corfu
- 12 Feb 2026
- 9781837263936
- £18.99
- 304 pp
- 141×220mm
- 12 Feb 2026
- 9781837263943
- £15.19
- 304 pp
- 12 Feb 2026
- 9781837263950
- £25
- 8 hrs 56 min
In a few words
A tense, masterfully spun novel about espionage, shadowy morality and unravelled secrets set on the sun-drenched Greek island of Vidos
In a few words
A tense, masterfully spun novel about espionage, shadowy morality and unravelled secrets set on the sun-drenched Greek island of Vidos
In a few words
A tense, masterfully spun novel about espionage, shadowy morality and unravelled secrets set on the sun-drenched Greek island of Vidos
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
Le Carré meets The Durrells - A Stranger is Corfu is a brilliantly atmospheric thriller. Suspenseful, vivid and impossible to put down
Tom Holland
Le Carré meets The Durrells - A Stranger is Corfu is a brilliantly atmospheric thriller. Suspenseful, vivid and impossible to put down
Tom Holland
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
Le Carré meets The Durrells - A Stranger is Corfu is a brilliantly atmospheric thriller. Suspenseful, vivid and impossible to put down
Tom Holland
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
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‘Suspenseful, vivid and impossible to put down’ TOM HOLLAND
‘Laced with thrills’ EVIE WYLD
‘Utterly gripping’ ADAM RUTHERFORD
On the Greek island of Vidos the past lingers like salt in the air. The inhabitants – former members of MI6 – are sent here to be forgotten. Exiled. Either too damaged or too compromised to be allowed to live freely.
For years, residents make the best of their fate – old enemies reconcile, long-lost friends swim together in the warm sea and estranged lovers share a bed once more. But secrets bind tightly. And when one of their own washes up dead, alliances fracture and a tide of suspicion begins to rise.
A vivid reimagining of a real, hidden slice of the British Intelligence Service’s history, A Stranger in Corfu is an exquisitely tense and masterfully spun novel about shadowy morality, unravelled secrets and the futility of trying to outrun the past.
More about
the book
‘Suspenseful, vivid and impossible to put down’ TOM HOLLAND
‘Laced with thrills’ EVIE WYLD
‘Utterly gripping’ ADAM RUTHERFORD
On the Greek island of Vidos the past lingers like salt in the air. The inhabitants – former members of MI6 – are sent here to be forgotten. Exiled. Either too damaged or too compromised to be allowed to live freely.
For years, residents make the best of their fate – old enemies reconcile, long-lost friends swim together in the warm sea and estranged lovers share a bed once more. But secrets bind tightly. And when one of their own washes up dead, alliances fracture and a tide of suspicion begins to rise.
A vivid reimagining of a real, hidden slice of the British Intelligence Service’s history, A Stranger in Corfu is an exquisitely tense and masterfully spun novel about shadowy morality, unravelled secrets and the futility of trying to outrun the past.
More about
the book
‘Suspenseful, vivid and impossible to put down’ TOM HOLLAND
‘Laced with thrills’ EVIE WYLD
‘Utterly gripping’ ADAM RUTHERFORD
On the Greek island of Vidos the past lingers like salt in the air. The inhabitants – former members of MI6 – are sent here to be forgotten. Exiled. Either too damaged or too compromised to be allowed to live freely.
For years, residents make the best of their fate – old enemies reconcile, long-lost friends swim together in the warm sea and estranged lovers share a bed once more. But secrets bind tightly. And when one of their own washes up dead, alliances fracture and a tide of suspicion begins to rise.
A vivid reimagining of a real, hidden slice of the British Intelligence Service’s history, A Stranger in Corfu is an exquisitely tense and masterfully spun novel about shadowy morality, unravelled secrets and the futility of trying to outrun the past.
A cracker from Alex Preston: a lovely, sun-drenched conceit, deftly executed
Taut, tense and utterly gripping: Preston evokes a wonderfully thrilling story from the dreamy Ioanian. Nothing short of brilliant
Adam Rutherford
A sunlit version of the purgatory of Mick Herron’s Slough House . . . This story of betrayal, disillusionment and the terrible cost of adherence to ideology is both compelling and humane
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
Taut, tense and utterly gripping: Preston evokes a wonderfully thrilling story from the dreamy Ioanian. Nothing short of brilliant
Adam Rutherford
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
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
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
Taut, tense and utterly gripping: Preston evokes a wonderfully thrilling story from the dreamy Ioanian. Nothing short of brilliant
Adam Rutherford
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
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
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