Drayton and Mackenzie

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>A big bustling novel about love friendship money ambition and the 21st century packed with humour and intelligent observations ... I finished it tear-stained' <em>Sunday Times</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>'Will have you hooked ... an ode to the enduring power of male friendship' <em>The Times</em> Best Summer Books</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>'My book of the summer' Janice Turner</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>'Thrilling' <em>Guardian</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Longlisted</strong><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> </em><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>for the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025</strong></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>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...</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>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 him.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Roland Mackenzie on the other hand is an impulsive risk-taker a charismatic drifter with boundless enthusiasm but a knack for derailing his own attempts to get started in life.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>When a chance encounter in a pub reunites these old acquaintances it sets them on an unpredictable course through the upheavals of the 21st century and triggers an unlikely alliance. Against the backdrop of the financial crash and its aftermath they strive to create something that outlasts them something that will matter.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Drayton and Mackenzie </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>is a stunningly ambitious immediately engaging and ultimately deeply moving novel both about trying to make your mark on the world and about how a friendship might be the most important thing in life.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>THE MUCH-ANTICIPATED NOVEL FROM AN AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>CAN FRIENDSHIPS CHANGE THE WORLD?</strong></p><p></p>