Xandra Bingley

Xandra Bingley rode and trained horses before she started work at the age of seventeen for MI5. She then worked for the Atlantic Monthly Review in Boston and the Kennedy Institute of Politics at Harvard. Subsequently in London she became a publisher's reader and then a commissioning editor at Jonathan Cape before she started her own literary agency. Her childhood wartime memoir Bertie, May and Mrs Fish was published to great acclaim in 2005. She lives in London.

  • Ways of Telling
    Ways of Telling
    Ways of Telling Xandra Bingley
    Publication Date: Apr 28, 2026
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