The best books of 2025, and the ones we can’t wait to read
Zadie Smith, Jon Fosse and Patricia Lockwood are among the authors still to drop novels and memoirs this year
'A big book, and almost Dickensian in its scope ... very moving'
#DraytonandMackenzie by Alexander Starritt is a @gqmagazine.bsky.social Book of the Year.
Read the full review: shorturl.at/P5yxE
06.08.2025 13:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
THE HISTORY OF SOUND | Official Trailer | In Theaters September 12
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Have you seen #TheHistoryofSound trailer? 🎞️
We're delighted to be publishing Ben Shattuck's 'triumphant' (The Times) collection of 'exquisite' (Sunday Post) stories that inspired the film in paperback this September.
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25.07.2025 09:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The cover of DRAYTON & MACKENZIE by Alexander Starritt
90pp in and enjoying this immensely.
18.07.2025 20:09 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Leading political commentators @iaindale.bsky.social and
@steverichards.bsky.social discuss two of the most influential British Prime Ministers at Henley Lit Fest.
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21.07.2025 13:54 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Have you ever been curious about how people live when nobody is watching?
Pre-order #EverythingWillSwallowYou by @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social shorturl.at/eJkSB with @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social 🎉
21.07.2025 10:11 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Swift Press is set to publish What’s With Baum?, a debut novel by Woody Allen about a middle-aged Jewish novelist
www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article... (£)
18.07.2025 10:30 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
'This tale of two very different young men who together build a company is sweeping, clever, deeply researched and very funny' @thetimes.com
#DraytonandMackenzie by Alexander Starritt is Janice Turner's 'book of the summer'🌞
Read more: shorturl.at/FdbJw
16.07.2025 11:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Crossed destinies
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,
Here's my review of Drayton and Mackenzie, Alexander Starritt's capacious, elegantly written novel of entrepreneurship and bromance in this week's
@thetls.bsky.social @swiftpress.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/literature/f...
10.07.2025 10:48 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Alexander Starritt's Favourite Books on Friendship
Love affairs and the issue of who marries whom has been the number one fixation of Western literature since troubadours were plucking their lutes in medieval France and warbling about courtly love. Bu...
'The greatest novel ever written (if you don’t believe me, ask Virginia Woolf) is of course War and Peace'
Author of #DraytonandMackenzie Alexander Starritt lists his favourite books on friendship with @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social
Find out more: shorturl.at/yQWix
04.07.2025 08:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Sunday Times Bestseller #TheSeventhFloor by David McCloskey is out now in paperback.
Find out more: bit.ly/SeventhFloor #DamascusStation #MoscowX @restisclassified.bsky.social
03.07.2025 10:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
'An epic tale of ambition and male friendship' @thetimes.com
#DraytonandMackenzie by @StarrittAlex is out now.
Find out more: bit.ly/DraytonMackenzie
03.07.2025 09:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#GreenInk by @stephenmay1.bsky.social is an Apple Books deal 📖
'Clever and playful' @thetimes.com
Read for £1.99: shorturl.at/btmt2
02.07.2025 09:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
'A breathtaking conspectus of the 21st century, an exciting rags-to-riches adventure and a deeply moving story of male friendship ... I don’t know how Starritt is going to top this one'
@financialtimes.com
Read the full review of #DraytonandMackenzie by Alexander Starritt: shorturl.at/BBpIT
27.06.2025 12:28 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
'Will have you hooked ... an ode to the enduring power of male friendship' @thetimes.com
#DraytonandMackenzie by Alexander Starritt is a
@thetimes.com Best Summer Book 🌊
Read the full review: shorturl.at/SBVQ6
Pre-order: bit.ly/DraytonMacke...
26.06.2025 10:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
‘Offers a remarkable new view of a remarkable and still under-appreciated leader’ Simon Jenkins
#TheIncidentalFeminist by Tina Gaudoin publishes this September.
Available now to pre-order: bit.ly/IncidentalFe...
24.06.2025 13:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The best new crime and thriller books to read this year
The standout titles of 2025 so far span inter-war espionage, gritty violence in modern Glasgow and the return of a cult writer
'Sprightly, elegantly written mystery'
#TheMysteryatRakeHall by Maureen Paton has been selected in @telegraphnews.bsky.social as one of the best new crime and thriller books to read this year.
Read the review: shorturl.at/eHrxM
24.06.2025 09:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Joe McLaren's cover for my third novel Everything Will Swallow You. The book will be published on September 11th.
THREAD. After a tough few months (involving my ex-publisher Unbound ceasing to pay their authors, then disintegrating) I am enormously relieved to reveal Joe McLaren's fantastic cover for my 3rd novel.
The book will be published on September 11th.
I believe it's the best thing I've ever written.
22.06.2025 06:44 — 👍 1071 🔁 162 💬 50 📌 32
'I shall be taking Alan Johnson's short biography of #HaroldWilson. I really like the Swift Press series on prime ministers (short enough to read at one sitting, no getting bogged down)' @wmarybeard.bsky.social @thetls.bsky.social
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Read the book: bit.ly/HaroldWilson
23.06.2025 09:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
'I want to force people to read things and think and feel and change and talk and believe that literature can still be great' James Frey, author of #NextToHeaven in @thetimes.com
Read the feature: shorturl.at/21gSW
Read the book: bit.ly/NextToHeaven
20.06.2025 15:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This punchy satire is Dickens meets The Big Short
Drayton and Mackenzie, Alexander Starritt’s new novel, takes on the world of Oxbridge, McKinsey and tech bros with brio
A big, bustling novel about love, friendship, money, ambition and the 21st century, packed with humour and intelligent observations … I finished it tear-stained' @thetimes.com
Read the full review of #DraytonandMackenzie by Alexander Starritt 🌊 shorturl.at/KAmZT
19.06.2025 07:59 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
'The novel on every beach towel this summer' #Esquire
'A deliriously over-the-top portrait of decadence on the brink'
#Bustle
'A Connecticut sex romp-cum-murder mystery' @vanityfair.com
The thrilling #NexttoHeaven by James Frey is out now 👄 bit.ly/NextToHeaven
19.06.2025 07:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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