As a child, his family moved to Kent, where Paraskos attended a secondary modern school in Canterbury[2] Paraskos claimed in The Guardian that those who attend secondary modern schools "are condemned to a lifetime of social exclusion and crippling self-doubt".
[4] After becoming a vegetarian, he left butchery and enrolled in evening classes at Canterbury College of Technology to study for university entrance examinations.
At Nottingham University, he gained his doctorate in 2015 on the aesthetic theories of the anarchist poet and art theorist Herbert Read.
[6] As a freelance reviewer of books and exhibitions, he has worked for The Spectator magazine, and the London edition of the Epoch Times newspaper.
[9] Although de Sanctis was not an anarchist, in Paraskos this statement, equating the creation of a new reality through the artistic destruction of an old one, seems to have sparked a particular interest in the relationship between anarchism and art.
Notably, Paraskos ended this essay, written in Greek and English, with the slogan "Ζήτω η αναρχική επανάσταση!
"[10] Paraskos's first novel, In Search of Sixpence, was described by the critic Paul Cudenec as an example of anarchist literature, with its "dizzying hall of mirrors, where reflected moments bounce around in a loop and end up staring each other in the face."
These elements, which undermine the division between fiction and non-fiction writing, form what Paraskos has described as a kind of disruptive anarchist literature, although the subject matter of the book is not overtly concerned with political anarchism.