Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 and intelligent observations ... I finished it tear-stained' Sunday Times'Will have you hooked ... an ode to the enduring power of male friendship' The Times Best Summer Books'My book of the summer' Janice Turner'Thrilling' GuardianLonglisted for the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025For 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 waiting for a challenge worthy of his ambitions. Roland Mackenzie, on the other hand, is an impulsive risk-taker, a charismatic drifter with 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 twenty-first century, and sparks an unlikely alliance. Sent to Aberdeen during the financial crisis to lay off hundreds of workers, James and Roland begin to wonder: what if they were made for more than this? What if together they could build something grand and lasting - something that might even change the world?

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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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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 and intelligent observations ... I finished it tear-stained' Sunday Times'Will have you hooked ... an ode to the enduring power of male friendship' The Times Best Summer Books'My book of the summer' Janice Turner'Thrilling' GuardianLonglisted for the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025For 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 waiting for a challenge worthy of his ambitions. Roland Mackenzie, on the other hand, is an impulsive risk-taker, a charismatic drifter with 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 twenty-first century, and sparks an unlikely alliance. Sent to Aberdeen during the financial crisis to lay off hundreds of workers, James and Roland begin to wonder: what if they were made for more than this? What if together they could build something grand and lasting - something that might even change the world?