| 词条 | John Preston (author, born 1953) |
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John Preston (born 1953) is an English journalist and novelist. CareerJohn Preston worked as the Arts Editor of The Evening Standard and The Sunday Telegraph. He was The Sunday Telegraph's television critic for ten years and one of its chief feature writers.[1] Preston wrote four novels between 1996 and 2007. All are set in the recent past: Ghosting in the world of radio and television in the 1950s; Ink in the dying days of Fleet Street's importance in journalism in the 1980s; Kings of the Roundhouse in strife-torn London in the 1970s; and The Dig in the 1930s. Preston wrote The Dig, a novelised account of the Sutton Hoo archaeological dig, after discovering that his aunt had been one of the key participants.[2] A Very English Scandal, Preston's non-fiction account of the Jeremy Thorpe affair of the 1970s, was adapted into a television miniseries in 2018. Critical assessmentsThe Sunday Times reviewer of Ink said, "With a rare gift for both humour and desolation, Preston is a brilliant new player in the field of serious comedy." [3] Reviewing Kings of the Roundhouse in The Guardian, Harry Ritchie called it "that unusual thing – an intelligent comic novel that really is very funny".[4] The Labour politician Chris Mullin said A Very English Scandal was "probably the most forensic, elegantly written and compelling account of one of the 20th century's great political scandals ... a real page-turner" and an "entertaining mix of tragedy and farce".[5]Books
References1. ^{{cite web | url = http://clivedenliteraryfestival.org/john-preston | title = John Preston | publisher = Cliveden Literary Festival | accessdate =20 July 2018}} 2. ^{{cite news| work=The Telegraph | first=John |last=Preston |accessdate=20 July 2018| title=My buried history|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3664803/My-buried-history.html|date=29 April 2007}} 3. ^[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=xDW7AZhsxgEC&pg=PA333 John O'Farrell, This Is Your Life, Random House, London, 2012, p. 333.] 4. ^{{cite news| work=The Guardian | first=Harry|last=Ritchie |accessdate=20 July 2018| title=Fast and loose|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/oct/23/featuresreviews.guardianreview21|date=23 October 2004}} 5. ^{{cite news| work=The Guardian | first=Chris|last=Mullin |accessdate=20 July 2018| title=A Very English Scandal review – Jeremy Thorpe’s fall continues to fascinate|url= https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/09/very-english-scandal-jeremy-thorpe-john-preston |date=9 May 2016}} External links
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