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Alex George

Biography

Alex George

A native of England, Alex George read law at Oxford University and worked for eight years as a corporate lawyer in London and Paris. He has lived in the Midwest of the United States for the last 16 years. He is the founder and director of the Unbound Book Festival, and is the owner of Skylark Bookshop, an independent bookstore in downtown Columbia, Missouri.

Alex is the author of THE PARIS HOURS, A GOOD AMERICAN and SETTING FREE THE KITES.

Alex George

Books by Alex George

The Paris Hours
by Alex George - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Told over the course of a single day in 1927, THE PARIS HOURS takes four ordinary people whose stories, told together, are as extraordinary as the glorious city they inhabit.

A Good American
by Alex George - Fiction, Historical Fiction

It is 1904. When Frederick and Jette must flee her disapproving mother, where better to go than America, the land of the new? Originally set to board a boat to New York, at the last minute, they take one destined for New Orleans instead ("What’s the difference? They’re both new"), and later find themselves, more by chance than by design, in the small town of Beatrice, Missouri. Not speaking a word of English, they embark on their new life together.