FT Business Book of the Year

Best business books

All the books longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award

Drayton and Mackenzie by Alexander Starritt

Drayton and Mackenzie

Alexander Starritt’s best novel yet follows the lives of two entrepreneurial graduates against a backdrop of the 2008 crash to Covid and beyond — Read the complete FT review

Synopsis

James Drayton has always found things too easy, and he’s searching for a challenge worthy of his ambitions, one that will fulfil the destiny he thinks awaits him.
Roland Mackenzie is a charismatic, impulsive risk-taker with boundless enthusiasm but a knack for derailing his own attempts to get started in life.
When a chance encounter reunites these old acquaintances, it sets them on an unpredictable course through the upheavals of the 21st century. Against the backdrop of the financial crash and its aftermath, they strive to create something that outlasts them, something that will matter.