Alex Starritt
@StarrittAlex
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Winner of the 2021 Dayton Peace Prize. Author of We Germans and The Beast. New novel Drayton and Mackenzie out in July
London
Joined March 2015
RT @marcuschown: Few write a novel about management consultants, the 2008 financial crash & tidal power. But these are the topics of Alexan….
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RT @OlgaWojtas: Excellent review in @TheScotsman by #AllanMassie of @StarrittAlex's "Drayton and Mackenzie."
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RT @kitgrier: Can’t believe I’ve lived far enough into the future to learn the first slur for robots.
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RT @spectator: An unlikely alliance: Drayton and Mackenzie, by Alexander Starritt, reviewed. ✍️ Susie Mesure.
spectator.co.uk
Alexander Starritt has form with satire. His 2017 debut The Beast skewered the modern tabloid press, drawing comparisons with Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop. For his third novel, Drayton and Mackenzie, he is...
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RT @TheScotsman: Drayton and Mackenzie by Alexander Starritt review: 'a richly enjoyable novel of ideas'.
scotsman.com
Ambitious in terms of both scale and scope, this new novel from Alexander Starritt is so good it invites a second reading, writes Allan Massie
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RT @adwooldridge: I highly recommend Alexander Starritt's Drayton and Mackenzie: that rare thing a novel about business that captures both….
bloomberg.com
Capitalism may have gone out of literary fashion. This summer’s Drayton and Mackenzie offers a glowing reminder of why it deserves more fiction.
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RT @sajithpai: Just ordered. Lots of buzz about this book (return of the 'big business novel' etc.) by @StarrittAlex
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RT @judecook_: Made it, ma. First time on the cover of the TLS for my review of @StarrittAlex's wonderful new novel Drayton and Mackenzie i….
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RT @judecook_: Here's my review of Drayton and Mackenzie, @StarrittAlex's capacious, elegantly written novel of entrepreneurship and broman….
the-tls.com
Drayton and Mackenzie – not a gentleman’s outfitters, but a novel – is an example of a genre that has become vanishingly rare of late: the capacious,
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RT @EODHappyCaptain: Calm. Cool. Collected. Named everyone else on his crew. Said “anyone else would have done the same,” and then saved cl….
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RT @aled_mj: Wrote about Alexander Starritt’s excellent Drayton and Mackenzie, Anglofuturist fiction, and whether the novel can help us ima….
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RT @OlgaWojtas: Really looking forward to this - the greatest newspaper novel ever written is of course @StarrittAlex's "The Beast.".
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RT @_SwiftPress: 'The greatest novel ever written (if you don’t believe me, ask Virginia Woolf) is of course War and Peace'. Author of #Dra….
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RT @_SwiftPress: Tune into @BBCRadioScot this afternoon where @StarrittAlex will discuss his latest novel #DraytonandMackenzie out today.….
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RT @_SwiftPress: 'An epic tale of ambition and male friendship' @thetimes. #DraytonandMackenzie by @StarrittAlex is out now. Find out more….
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RT @_SwiftPress: 'A breathtaking conspectus of the 21st century, an exciting rags-to-riches adventure and a deeply moving story of male fri….
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RT @_SwiftPress: 'Will have you hooked . an ode to the enduring power of male friendship' @thetimes . #DraytonandMackenzie by @StarrittAl….
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RT @_SwiftPress: ‘A big, bustling novel about love, friendship, money, ambition and the 21st century, packed with humour and intelligent ob….
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