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Drayton and Mackenzie: 'An ode to the enduring power of male friendship' The Times Best Book of the Year

Alexander Starritt

  • An astonishingly ambitious but incredibly engaging and ultimately very moving novel. It marries the sweep of Caledonian Road with the emotional heart of One Day
  • The hardback has sold over 4,000 copies TCM, and Swift have sold over 12,000 copies in all editions
  • Longlisted for the FT Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025, the first novel in over 15 years
  • Picked as a Book of the Year in 9 places, including the Sunday Times, the FT, and the Express
  • Alexander Starritt is half-Scottish and grew up in Scotland; and a good proportion of this novel is set there (in Aberdeen and Orkney)

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : JUN 4, 2026
  • Imprint : Swift Press
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  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781800755284
  • Price : INR 999
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Alexander Starritt

Alexander Starritt’s debut novel The Beast was a 2017 Spectator book of the year; his second novel, We Germans, was published in 2020 and translated into six languages. It won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize in the United States, and was nominated for the Prix Femina, Prix Médicis and Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. Drayton and Mackenzie is his third. Starritt was born and brought up in Scotland, and now lives in London.

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