Wonderful to see my novel FOR EMMA included in Allan Massie's literary "Highlights of 2025" in The Scotsman, alongside @SueHLawrence @LiamMcIlvanney @StarrittAlex and @OlgaWojtas. Many thanks to @leamingtonbooks & @TheScotsman

Delighted to be one of Allan Massie's highlights of the year in @TheScotsman magazine, and doubly delighted to be alongside fabulous fellow authors @SueHLawrence, @LiamMcIlvanney, @MrEwanMorrison and @StarrittAlex. Thank you, @SarabandBooks!

My latest: I can’t think of 5 novels from 2025 that merit extravagant praise. I���d go with Fredrik Backman’s mystical, near fairy-tale Among Friends, for the top slot, and Alexander Starritt’s Drayton and MacKenzie. After that, I'm stumped.

A strong reading recommendation as Christmas approaches. Alexander Starritt's "Drayton & Mackenzie" is an enthralling first novel in the same league as Dickens's "Dombey & Son" or Balzac's "La Maison Nucingen." It's a portrait of a business partnership that unites an odd couple.

Two books to enhance any bookshelf: the Strong Words Book of the Year – NYC restaurants king Keith McNally's I Regret Almost Everything – and the Strong Words Novel of the Year, Alexander Starritt's Drayton and Mackenzie. (Just as good without the help of this talented model.)

The cover of my new book. Out in March from Allen Lane

.@simonakam reports on how an attempt to standardize Switzerland’s least known national language ignited quarrels that engulfed classrooms, newspapers, and eventually local politics. https://t.co/VlfXGNn4K3

Great interview with @StarrittAlex in the FT about his brilliant book Drayton and Mackenzie: https://t.co/kxzX4zPzKe "Obviously it’s a scathing critique of late-stage capitalism," one TV exec told him - because clearly that's what any novel about business must be getting at🤪

“This whole thing is just a no: a book about business [and] privileged white guys making lots of money” - many publishers rejected the novel Drayton and Mackenzie. I talked to author @StarrittAlex about why fiction only sees the bad in business https://t.co/ZfK1BOIGoQ #BBYA25

Cannot tell you how much I adore this clip from 1941 of women from the Western Isles of the Outer Hebrides singing as they work their Harris Tweed. It was shot by the great JACK CARDIFF.

Lovely review of Bone Valley by Mariko Hewer. https://t.co/B1FQNN16Ll

Equator is here! Spread the word! Our launch issue: https://t.co/SKa1VBg8k8 Follow us at @Equatormag Buy tickets for our launch event this Friday: https://t.co/mqmLaQulQh

‘In Drayton and Mackenzie, his ambitious third novel, Alexander Starritt has accomplished something few, if any, of his millennial generation have even attempted’

I was a little unsure at first about a novel centred on two posh boys who go to Oxford but Drayton & Mackenzie turned out to be one helluva great read.

I wrote a new book. It’s called American Men. It’s about men, in America. You can preorder it here.

I’m very proud to be running to be elected to the Management Committee of the Society of Authors. You can read my full statement here: https://t.co/WVNOg7RdLe Voting is for SoA members and is done by post. Votes must arrive by 22 October.

An outstanding novel. In times when masculinity is under huge scrutiny, this is such a positive, uplifting book about (amongst many other things) what it can mean to be a man. But the ending - oh my heart. It absolutely should be Booker long-listed

New today on Susan's Bookshelves.

Tune in to @jazzfm’s Summer Book Club this Saturday from 9 to hear @StarrittAlex discussing #DraytonandMackenzie with @TheTomWatters Listen on your DAB radio, smart speaker, on the Rayo app or online https://t.co/2rZrdYeP2r

Congratulations to our top 16: @Birdyword, @SaabiraC, @doctorow, @evadou, @edwardfishman, @dgelles, @_KarenHao, @GardinerHarris, @ezraklein, @DKThomp, @helenlewis, @tim_minshall, @StarrittAlex, @danwwang, @JoanCWilliams, @stephenwitt @NikkeiAsia