Edward St Aubyn

For more than twenty years, acclaimed author Edward St. Aubyn has chronicled the life of Patrick Melrose, painting an extraordinary portrait of the beleaguered and self-loathing world of privilege. This single volume collects the first four novelsNever Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mothers Milk, a Man Booker finalistto coincide with the publication of At Last, the final installment of this unique novel cycle.By turns harrowing and hilarious, these beautifully written novels dissect the English upper class as we follow Patrick Melroses story from child abuse to heroin addiction and recovery. Never Mind, the first novel, unfolds over a day and an evening at the familys chateaux in the south of France, where the sadistic and terrifying figure of David Melrose dominates the lives of his five-year-old son, Patrick, and his rich and unhappy American mother, Eleanor.From abuse to addiction, the second novel, Bad News opens as the twenty-two-year-old Patrick sets off to collect his fathers ashes from New York, where he will spend a drug-crazed twenty-four hours. And back in England, the third novel, Some Hope, offers a sober and clean Patrick the possibility of recovery.The fourth novel, the Booker-shortlisted Mothers Milk, returns to the family chateau, where Patrick, now married and a father himself, struggles with child rearing, adultery, his mothers desire for assisted suicide, and the loss of the family home to a New Age foundation.Edward St. Aubyn offers a window into a world of utter decadence, amorality, greed, snobbery, and crueltywelcome to the declining British aristocracy.

For Patrick Melrose, 'family' is more than a double-edged sword. As friends, relations and foes trickle in to pay final respects to his mother, Eleanor - an heiress who forsook the grandeur of her upbringing for 'good works', freely bestowed upon everyone but her own child - Patrick finds that his transition to orphanhood isn't necessarily the liberation he had so long imagined. Yet as the service ends and the family gather for a final party, as conversations are overheard, danced around and concertedly avoided, amidst the social niceties and the social horrors, the calms and the rapids, Patrick begins to sense a new current. And at the end of the day, alone in his rooftop bedsit, it seems to promise some form of safety, at last.

Après Peu importe et Mauvaise Nouvelle, voici Après tout, le temps pour Patrick Melrose den finir totalement avec son passé et de faire un dernier pied de nez à la gentry anglaise.« La comtesse Grave

« Edward St Aubyn fait partie des quelques géants de la fiction anglaise contemporaine, qui se comptent sur les doigts d’une main. Il a toujours élaboré avec talent une forme de satire qui n’exclut p

PRIX FEMINA 2007 La famille Melrose est en péril. Patrick, la petite quarantaine, se sent délaissé par sa femme Mary, depuis la naissance de leur second enfant. Celle-ci, bien décidée à ne pas com

From the bestselling author of the Patrick Melrose novels, this is a thought-provoking and entertaining insight into a sniping world of literature, celebrity culture and ambition.

« Enfin est incontestablement la fin de léducation de Patrick Melrose, de ses conséquences désastreuses et de ses tentatives désespérées pour se libérer de ces conséquences. Cette histoire est finie,

El jurat del Premi Literari Elisi ha de llegir centenars dobres per tal de trobar el millor llibre de lany. Al mateix temps, una colla descriptors estan desesperats per captar latenció daquest jurat: la brillant escriptora i trencacors Katherine Burns, el novel·lista debutant malalt damor Sam Black i en Sonny, convençut que el seu magnum opus, Lelefant morat, arrasara el mon literari com una tempesta.Ens revelara, St Aubyn, el funcionament dels premis literaris? Com arriben, algunes obres, a ser seleccionades entre les finalistes? Quines son les motivacions per escollir la novel·la guanyadora? No tinc paraules es una satira enginyosa i fabulosament entretinguda que, duna banda, va al gra quan tracta algunes de les questions mes profundes sobre el paper de lart en una cultura obsessionada per la celebritat, i, de laltra, es pregunta com podem esperar reconeixer el talent real quan tothom te interessos personals.Ironicament, aquesta obra tambe va guanyar un premi literari.

El jurat del Premi Literari Elisi ha de llegir centenars d’obres per tal de trobar el millor llibre de l’any. Al mateix temps, una colla d’escriptors estan desesperats per captar l’atenció d’aquest j

Henry Dunbar a décidé de s’enfuir du foyer pour personnes âgées où ses filles l’ont placé en Cumbria, dans la région montagneuse du nord-ouest de l’Angleterre. Son acolyte dans l’aventure est un anci

Brought to you by Penguin.From the author of the internationally acclaimed Patrick Melrose books: a major new novel exploring some of the biggest ideas and most pressing questions of our times. Double Blind follows three close friends and their circle through a year of extraordinary transformation. Set between London, Cap d'Antibes, Big Sur and a re-wilded corner of Sussex, this thrilling, ambitious novel is as compelling about ecology, psychoanalysis, genetics and neuroscience as it is about love, fear and courage.When Olivia meets a new lover, Francis, just as she is welcoming her dearest friend, Lucy, back from New York, her life expands precipitously. Her connection to Francis, a committed naturalist living off-grid, is immediate and startling. Eager to involve Lucy in her joy, Olivia introduces the two - but Lucy has news of her own that binds the trio unusually close. Over the months that follow, Lucy's boss, Hunter, Olivia's psychoanalyst parents and a young man named Sebastian are pulled into the friends' orbit and not one of them will emerge unchanged. Expansive, playful and compassionate, Double Blind investigates themes of inheritance, determinism, freedom, consciousness and the stories we tell about ourselves. Most of all, it is a perfect expression of the interconnections it sets out to examine and a moving evocation of an imagined world that is deeply intelligent, often tender, curious and very much alive.

I really did have an empire, you know,' said Dunbar. `Have I ever told you the story of how it was stolen from me?' Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he hands over care of the corporation to his two eldest daughters, Abby and Megan, but as relations sour he starts to doubt the wisdom of past decisions... Now imprisoned in a care home in the Lake District with only a demented alcoholic comedian as company, Dunbar starts planning his escape. As he flees into the hills, his family is hot on his heels. But who will find him first, his beloved youngest daughter, Florence, or the tigresses Abby and Megan, so keen to divest him of his estate? Edward St Aubyn is renowned for his masterwork, the five Melrose novels, which dissect with savage and beautiful precision the agonies of family life. His take on King Lear, Shakespeare's most devastating family story, is an excoriating novel for and of our times - an examination of power, money and the value of forgiveness.

From the author of the Patrick Melrose novels, now a major Sky Atlantic television series starring Benedict CumberbatchHenry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he handed over care of the corporation to his two eldest daughters, Abby and Megan. But relations quickly soured, leaving him to doubt the wisdom of past decisions. Now imprisoned in a care home in the Lake District with only a demented alcoholic comedian as company, Dunbar starts planning his escape. As he flees into the hills, his family is hot on his heels. Who will find him first, his beloved youngest daughter, Florence, or the tigresses Abby and Megan, so keen to divest him of his estate?

I was gripped by it IAN McEWANThree lives collide, not one of them will emerge unchanged - the exhilarating new novel from the author of the Patrick Melrose series.When Olivia meets a new lover, Francis, just as she is welcoming her dearest friend Lucy back from New York, her life expands dramatically. Her connection to Francis, a committed naturalist living off-grid, is immediate and startling. Eager to involve Lucy in her joy, Olivia introduces the two - but Lucy has news of her own that binds the trio unusually close. Over the months that follow, Lucys boss Hunter, Olivias psychoanalyst parents, and a young man named Sebastian are pulled into the friends orbit, and not one of them will emerge unchanged.Moving and so funnyObserver, Books of the YearHeroic and astonishingSunday TimesClever and compassionate... A novel with heartSpectatorEntertaining... Immensely pleasurableDaily Mail

Winner of the Betty Trask Award, Never Mind is the first in Edward St Aubyns semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick.At his mothers family house in the south of France, Patrick Melrose has the run of a magical garden. Bravely imaginative and self-sufficient, five-year-old Patrick encounters the volatile lives of adults with care. His father, David, rules with considered cruelty, and Eleanor, his mother, has retreated into drink. They are expecting guests for dinner. But this afternoon is unlike the chain of summer days before, and the shocking events that precede the guests arrival tear Patricks world in two.Never Mind was originally published, along with Bad News and Some Hope, as part of a three book omnibus , also called Some Hope.

Edward St. Aubyns On The Edge is a witty and philosophical satire about New Age soul-searchers.Sabine is the most mercurial woman Peter Thorpe has ever known. Such is his desire for her that he overturns his whole life his disillusioned merchant-bankers life and leaves everything behind, not caring that his lover is of no fixed address, nor that his search for her will take him to the beating heart of New Ageism in northern California. Each of his fellow seekers is in hot pursuit of that elusive something (happiness?), and in their eccentric company Peter stumbles across vistas he had never before dared to imagine . . .

Charlie Fairburn, successful screenwriter, ex-husband and absent father, has been given six months to live. He resolves to stake half his fortune on a couple of turns of the roulette wheel and, to his agents disgust, to write a novel about death. In the casino he meets his muse. Charlie grows as addicted to writing fiction as she is to gambling. His novel is set on a train and involves a group of characters who are locked in a debate about the nature of consciousness. As this train gets stuck at Didcot, and Charlie gets more passionately entangled with the dangerous Angelique, A Clue to the Exit comes to its startling climax. Exquisitely crafted, witty and thoughtful, Edward St Aubyns dazzling novel probes the very heart of being. Perhaps the most brilliant English novelist of his generation Alan Hollinghurst