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AVAILABLE NOW FOR PRE-ORDER For the first time since university, James and Roland's paths through life - one drawn in straight lines, the other squiggled and meandering - began to cross... James Drayton has always found things too easy. By the time he leaves university, he's still searching for a challenge worthy of his ambitions, one that will fulfil the destiny he thinks awaits him. Roland Mackenzie, on the other hand, is an impulsive risk-taker, a charismatic drifter with boundless enthusiasm but a knack for derailing his own attempts to get started in life. When a chance encounter in a pub reunites these old acquaintances, it sets them on an unpredictable course through the upheavals of the 21st century, and triggers an unlikely alliance. Against the backdrop of the financial crash and its aftermath, they strive to create something that outlasts them, something that will matter. Drayton and Mackenzie is a stunningly ambitious, immediately engaging and ultimately deeply moving novel both about trying to make your mark on the world, and about how a friendship might be the most important thing in life. THE MUCH-ANTICIPATED NOVEL FROM AN AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR CAN FRIENDSHIPS CHANGE THE WORLD?

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'A romp through the 21st century via two bright young people - but beyond all the money and success Drayton and Mackenzie is really about friendship' - Laura Hackett, Sunday Times ‘A big, bustling novel about love, friendship, money, ambition and the 21st century, packed with humour and intelligent observations … picture Great Expectations meets The Big Short … I finished it tear-stained ... An epic tale of ambition and male friendship’ - Sunday Times

'A romp through the 21st century via two bright young people - but beyond all the money and success Drayton and Mackenzie is really about friendship' - Laura Hackett, Sunday Times ‘A big, bustling novel about love, friendship, money, ambition and the 21st century, packed with humour and intelligent observations … picture Great Expectations meets The Big Short … I finished it tear-stained ... An epic tale of ambition and male friendship’ - Sunday Times 'Will have you hooked ... an ode to the enduring power of male friendship' - The Times Best Summer Books 'Outstanding ... James Drayton is a powerhouse brain unable to connect with others, while Roland Mackenzie is charm-positive but can't quite get his act together. Without ever really intending, they entwine their lives to defy their business detractors, create an extraordinary friendship and pursue the enigma of tidal power to a pioneering conclusion. A novel like no other – awards await' - Strong Words 'A heart-warming story of a friendship that is very much of its times' - Mail on Sunday

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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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