Alex Starritt

Author of Drayton and Mackenzie, We Germans and The Beast.

Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Listed for FT book prize, Prix Femina and Prix Medicis

[Swift Press @_SwiftPress]

Drayton and Mackenzie has been chosen as Hatchard’s June Book of the Month!

Drayton and Mackenzie is out in paperback on June 4th, pre-order your copy now: https://t.co/FGFWFHC3eX 🌊

@StarrittAlex
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[Swift Press @_SwiftPress]

An epic of ambition, chaos, and the friendship that survives it.

A Times, Sunday Times, GQ, Financial Times and Bloomberg BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

'Very moving' GQ Books of the Year

Coming soon in paperback: https://t.co/TkO3Lm9i2W

[Fergus Butler-Gallie @_F_B_G_]

“The lamb bhuna looks nice.”

[Jordan Ritter Conn @jordanconn]

It would appear the critics agree that you should read my damn book. https://t.co/IwszNVDCHR

[Jordan Ritter Conn @jordanconn]

My book, AMERICAN MEN, is out today. It's an intimate, immersive work of narrative nonfiction that interweaves the stories of four vastly different men, grappling with their relationship to masculinity. I'd love for you to read it.

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

In the state of Wyoming in the USA lies a real hydrological oddity. It's a small stream (creek) that is thought to be the only one of very few examples in the world. It is placed so precariously and perfectly that it's hard to believe it is able to exist.

1/n

[Alex Starritt @StarrittAlex]

@HugoGye @jamespriceglos Thank you so much! Very glad you enjoyed it

[Adrian Wooldridge @adwooldridge]

One week until publication!
Pre-orders will be delivered on pub date

[Peter Innes @misplacedscot]

More than a book about business. Has the breadth of a 19th century Russian novel. ⁦@StarrittAlex⁩

[Hiroshi Suzuki @AmbJapanUK]

A wee swally!!🍺👍

[Josh Glancy @joshglancy]

I try to avoid being melodramatic about cultural decline.

Then I read that, when the BBC adapted Anthony Trollope’s Palliser novels in 1974, the Radio Times published an *84* page illustrated special on its historical context.

Unimaginable today.

[Alexander Linklater @ARLinklater]

Times obituaries are meant to be anonymous, but this is so good I need to boast that it was written by my father, Magnus Linklater, who has penned hundreds of such mini-biographies over the years, but few as important to Scottish culture as this one.

https://t.co/NbOpDUTZqs

[Alex Starritt @StarrittAlex]

@LMethv @icod Lovely to hear. Thank you

[Lindsay Methven @LMethv]

So.

Finished this last night and still unable to articulate HOW much I loved this book. I feel bereft.

An exquisite portrait of humanity and friendship. Utterly authentic. It’s my entire career too.

So so glad @icod tweeted 👇🏻

Outstanding @StarrittAlex

[Supriya Sharma @lightfooting101]

Finished reading Drayton & Mackenzie last night. It leaves you dealing with so much, you feel like you stepped out of a whirlwind. It took me a day to gather what I actually felt about the book.

Books about startups usually tend to be advice for founders. It’s rare to find a good fiction anchored about startups.

And then, there is this one. Each part, each theme so laboriously researched and dealt with. The tech development slows down the pace but then it is exactly how it is for founders.

The beautiful treatment of the messy, loopy, multi-threaded journey makes you feel frustrated. Exactly what founders go through!

And, what’s often not talked about enough - life. The ping-pong of love-hate between founders, feeling responsible and then wanting to run away, hiring people, being let down and letting them down, homes, families, friends, love, loss…

If you’re into good fiction and/or startups - you must pick it up.

@StarrittAlex 👏

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

This will forever be the greatest email.

[John Pye @JohnPye7]

A TIMES/SUNDAY TIMES, GQ, FINANCIAL TIMES AND BLOOMBERG BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025

'A big, bustling novel about love, friendship, money, ambition and the 21st century, packed with humour & intelligent observations.

Come to our first book event of 2026
https://t.co/PsfPYzqgTj

[Alex Starritt @StarrittAlex]

@HugoGye @alexmassie He's a legend and I am very very honoured to get a mention

[Alex Starritt @StarrittAlex]

@LiamMcIlvanney one of the all time great collections, and one of its finest poems. I also find that much of "Stephen Boyd" leaks into my subconscious. "A Hebrew melody gone underground: the trace note of some fellow in the faith"