Event Start Date: 23 September 2025

This year’s informal networking event for recent Somerville graduates and new alumni will feature Alex Starritt (History and Mod. Langs.) and Rebecca Jones (History) Please join us on Tuesday 23rd September from 6.30pm for what promises to be a lively discussion about Alex’s new book Drayton and Mackenzie. We will be hosted, once again, by Dan Mobley (1994, PPE) at Diageo’s Soho Office . This is an excellent opportunity to tap into the wealth of knowledge and experience across our alumni network in a great venue, and we hope you’ll be able to join us.

Booking is now closed.

“Drayton and Mackenzie is simultaneously a breathtaking conspectus of the 21st century, an exciting rags-to-riches adventure and a deeply moving story of male friendship. A novel has not done so much so well since Michael Chabon’s friendship epic, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000).”
https://www.ft.com/content/cb545da6-0b61-4048-bbe4-6608c0981cb2

“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.
https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/drayton-mackenzie-alexander-starritt-review-k99fg7xz0

 

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