John Preston.
john preston
fall: the mystery of robert maxwell (2020)
Winner of the 2021 Costa Prize.
Shortlisted for the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize.
Ian Robert Maxwell MC (1923 – 1991) was a British media proprietor, politician and fraudster. Of Jewish descent, he escaped the Nazi occupation of his native Czechoslovakia and joined the Czechoslovak Army in exile during World War II. He was decorated after active service in the British Army. In He founded Pergamon Press, which became a major academic publisher. After six years as a Labour Member of Parliament during the 1960s, he successively bught the British Printing Corporation, Mirror Group Newspapers and Macmillan Publishers. He died in mysterious circumstnces after disappearing overboard from his yacht; it emerged that he had seriously defrauded his companies’ pension funds.
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John Preston (born 1953) has had a distinguished and varied career as an author of both fiction and non-fiction, and as the writer of television docudrama. His television work includes ‘A Very English Scandal’ about Jeremy Thorpe’s political disgrace, and ‘Stonehouse’ about the disappearance of the Labour politician. His journalistic career included being Arts Editor of the Evening Standard and the Sunday Telegraph, where he was their TV critic for ten years.
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