Alexander Starritt

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...

Shortlisted for the Tom Wolfe Prize for Fiction 2026 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "A big, bustling novel about love, friendship, money, ambition and the 21st century, packed with humor and intelligent observations . . . I finished it tear-stained." -- The Sunday Times (UK) Longlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year--the...

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...

'Will have you hooked ... an ode to the enduring power of male friendship' - The Times Best Summer Books 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...