A Stranger in Corfu

Alex Preston

• Publisher: Canongate Books
• eBook ISBN:
  9781837263943
• Year: 2026

'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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Also by Alex Preston
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• PROLOGUE: Sarandë, Albania, May 1952
• PART 1: Vidos, Corfu, November 1995
• PART 2: Oxford, November 1945
• PART 3: Corfu, May 1996
• PART 4: Oxford, May 1948
• PART 5: Corfu, September 1996
• PART 6: Ajaltoun, near Beirut, September 1957
• PART 7: Corfu, October 1996
• PART 8: London, March 1974
• EPILOGUE: Corfu, May 1997
• Acknowledgements