Edward St Aubyn

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

A brother and sister lost and found, in a novel that seizes your heart and enthrals your mind, from the author of the Patrick Melrose series.Perhaps the most brilliant English novelist of his generation Alan HollinghurstWe set off in opposite directions and walked around the world until we met, and Im very pleased we haveSebastian is in treatment following a breakdown that has left him with a fragile hold on reality and a hunger to connect with the mother who abandoned him. His therapist, Martin, also faces challenges, including his adopted daughter Olivias tenuous relationship with her biological mother. Olivia, meanwhile, is producing a radio series on natural disasters, which itself seems to be running parallel to the events unfolding in her personal life.Over a year, their fates collide and each of their destinies is revealed in a marvellous new light.A tale of art and familybrimming with wordplay Financial TimesSentences that whoosh past like arrows St Aubyns talents are mighty New York TimesI love Edward St Aubyn Donna Tartt

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

« 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,

« 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

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

Des années 1960 aux années 2000, du sud de la France à la Grande-Bretagne en passant par New York, l’auteur raconte, dans une histoire semi-autobiographique, la vie de Patrick Melrose, qui naît dans

At Last is a miraculously wrought piece of art Suzi Feay, Financial TimesA terrifying, spectacularly entertaining saga James Lasdun, The GuardianAt Last is the fifth instalment in Edward St Aubyns semi-autobiographical series, The Patrick Melrose novels.As friends, relatives and foes trickle in to pay their final respects to his mother Eleanor, Patrick Melrose finds himself questioning whether a life without parents will be the liberation he has so long imagined. Yet as the memorial service ends and the family gathers one last time, amidst the social niceties and the social horrors, the calms and the rapids, Patrick begins to sense a new current: the chance of some form of safety at last.Remarkable. St Aubyns books are at once extremely dark and extremely funny Francine Prose, The New York TimesThe pinnacle of a series that has plunged into darkness and risen towards light. At Last is both resounding end and hopeful beginning Philip Womack, The TelegraphPart of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

Olivia, une jeune Londonienne, vient de rencontrer Francis. Elle se surprend à être séduite par ce naturaliste qui ne jure que par la vie à la campagne. Au même moment, elle sapprête à publier son pr

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