Alex Peake-Tomkinson is a London-based freelance journalist writing for the Spectator, the Financial Times, the Guardian, The Economist, Prospect, the Times Literary Supplement and many others. She has also written for The Times, the Telegraph, the Observer, the i paper, the Independent, the Daily Mail, the Mail on Sunday, Conde Nast Traveller, Time Out, Metro, 1843 and Stylist. She writes about culture, lifestyle and travel and is happy to conduct interviews on almost any subject.

She has chaired events at Edinburgh International Book Festival, the London Book Fair, the Southbank Centre, Primadonna Festival, Daunt Books Festival, Dulwich Festival, Waterstones Gower Street and Tottenham Court Road as well as at many independent bookshops with authors including Sebastian Faulks, Michael Rosen, Hari Kunzru, Robert Harris, Jessie Burton, Julie Myerson, Matt Haig, Lisa Jewell, Scarlett Thomas, Francis Spufford, Charlotte Mendelson, Tessa Hadley, Paul Lynch, Diana Evans, Nick Harkaway, Jenny Eclair, Christy Lefteri, William Clegg QC, Susie Boyt, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Louise Candlish, Carys Davies, Arifa Akbar, Rebecca Perry, Whitney Scharer, Tom Grant KC, Kenny Imafidon, Clare Chambers, Jyoti Patel, Claire Powell, Jon Doyle, Manesh Chauhan, Roxy Dunn, Camilla Barnes, Gabriella Zalapi, The Midult, Chikodili Emelumadu, Elizabeth Lovatt, Roisin Dunnett and Emma Flint.

She's available for journalism and copywriting commissions as well as speaking and chairing events. 

View fullsize I can’t pretend that I think the world needed my take on the ins and outs of Rachel Cusk apparently writing a novel about Natalie Portman but it nonetheless exists! Thank you to @prospect_magazine for asking me to write the piece and brilliant
View fullsize It was my honour to interview the incredible Siri Hustvedt about Ghost Stories, her memoir of her life with Paul Auster and also now, her life as a widow. As @louisecc.reads said to me a while ago, she just has a really great brain. She also bore out
View fullsize I genuinely missed my tube stop when I first read @clairemegpowell’s All In @chattobooks back in February and ended up in Bromley by Bow. You don’t have to do that but do read it — it’s even better than her first book, At the
View fullsize I was so happy to chair @clairemegpowell and Camilla Barnes this evening @bricklanebookshop, where I was a bookseller nearly two decades ago. Discussing their novels, All In @chattobooks and The Usual Desire to Kill @scribneruk, was a great opportuni
View fullsize I seem to be on a roll reviewing novels that aren’t quite for me, sadly! This time it’s Claire Fuller’s Hunger and Thirst, which I’ve covered for @ft_weekend. I’ll be interested to read other reviews when they start appe
View fullsize Looking and feeling not unlike a proud parent after chairing three cracking debut novelists @brightonfestival! L-R @jon.e.doyle, author of Communion, @poorsasquatch, author of May We Feed the King and @mcintheworld, author of Belgrave Road. Thank you
View fullsize I’ve reviewed Boyhood by David Keenan for this week’s edition of @spectatorlife, alongside @emilyrhodeswriter on a reissue of a creepy Caroline Blackwood novel and the inimitable Lynn Barber on a biography of the Rolling Stones. I didn&rs
View fullsize Happy publication day to Gwendoline Riley, whose seventh novel, The Palm House is out today. Riley is the first author I interviewed, 20 years ago, when I emailed her publicist and then promptly bought a tape recorder and a ticket to Manchester after
View fullsize Booker-longlisted Yvvette Edwards was a new author to me but I was very glad to review her latest novel Good Good Loving for the current issue of @spectator1828, alongside Artemis Cooper on a new biography of Jan Morris. Bernardine Evaristo and Dian

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