Festival favourite Alex Preston in conversation with Vaseem Khan about his new novel, A Stranger in Corfu – a tense, masterfully spun literary work of espionage, shadowy morality and unravelled secrets, based on the true history of the British Intelligence Service.

Alex Preston is an award-winning author of five novels including Winchelsea; In Love and War; The Revelations: This Bleeding City; also a book of non-fiction, As Kingfishers Catch Fire. He writes regularly for the New York Times, the Economist and the Observer, and is co-founder of the Corfu Literary Festival.

Vaseem Khan is the author of several award-winning crime series including the Baby Ganesh Agency novels, set in modern Mumbai, and the Malabar House historical series, set in 1950s Bombay. His novel Midnight at Malabar House won the Crime Writers’ Association Historical Dagger.