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The funny and the tragic are melded in a world of high finance and savage familial betrayal, in this story of a media despot's fall from grace conveyed with the powerful prose of an author hailed by Alan Hollinghurst as 'The most brilliant English novelist of his generation'.

A powerful reflection on pain, acceptance, and the treacheries of family, "At Last" is the stunning culmination of the Melrose books, a work of glittering dark comedy and profound emotional truth.

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Winner of the Betty Trask Award, Never Mind is the first in Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick.At his mother's 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 fathe...

Bad News is the second of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick.Twenty-two years old and in the grip of a massive addiction, Patrick Melrose is forced to fly to New York to collect his father's ashes. Over the course of a weekend, Patrick's remorseless search for drugs on the avenues of Manhattan, haunted by old acquainta...

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Mit seinem furiosen fünfteiligen Romanzyklus um sein Alter Ego Patrick Melrose hat sich Edward St Aubyn weltweit in die erste Riege der zeitgenössischen Literatur geschrieben: Die Romane erzählen Patrick Melroses Geschichte von seiner Kindheit bis zum späten Tod seiner Mutter und schildern dabei so elegant wie unnachsichtig das Erwachsenwerden eines begabten, sensiblen Jungen, das in einer aristokratisch privilegierten Umgebung eine schwarze H...

Hilarious, elegant and written with effortless insight' GuardianEach of the judges of the Elysian Prize for literature has a reason for accepting the job: the bored politician, the media personality, the Oxbridge academic and the civil servant with literary ambitions of her own. Meanwhile, a host of authors are desperate for Elysian glory, including serial heart-breaker Katherine Burns, lovelorn existentialist Sam Black, and Sonny, convinced t...

The first four novels in this outstanding literary sequence are published together with the first paperback publication of "At Last", to make a beautiful collection. 'So good - so fantastically well-written, profound and humane...it is heart-stopping' "Observer

Some Hope is the third of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical series, The Patrick Melrose Novels, filmed for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick.Patrick Melrose, cleaned-up and world-weary, is a reluctant guest at a glittering party deep in the English countryside. Amid a crowd of flitting social dragonflies, he finds his search for redemption and capacity for forgiveness challenged by his observa...

The culmination of the "Melrose" sequence of novels, that included the Booker shortlisted "Mother's Milk". It follows Patrick Melrose as he attends his mother's funeral, and reflects on his life, finding that orphanhood isn't necessarily the liberation he had for so long imagined it would be.

Sono i giorni dell'Elysian Prize a Londra, e l'intera società letteraria del Commonwealth è in fermento. Benché sia confinato al mucchio di ceneri imperiali di un'istituzione cara forse soltanto alla Regina, il Premio è uno dei riconoscimenti più ambiti negli illustri salotti letterari londinesi, in quelli altrettanto nobili di Edimburgo e tra i notabili di Nuova Delhi. Sponsorizzato dalla Elysian, un'industria agricola che annovera tra i suoi...

Il ciclo narrativo contenuto in queste pagine, composto da quattro romanzi (il quinto conclusivo, "At Last", apparirà in seguito), ha destato enorme scalpore nei paesi in cui è apparso. Edward St Aubyn, rampollo di un'antica e nobile famiglia che "viveva in Cornovaglia fin dai tempi della conquista normanna" (Guardian), è stato accostato dalla critica britannica e statunitense a Evelyn Waugh e Oscar Wilde per la sua sferzante descrizione dell'...

I lineamenti del viso rigidi e ritoccati, le dita ossute che stringono una rosa bianca artificiale sopra un cuore che non batte più: così Eleanor Melrose appare per l'ultima volta a suo figlio Patrick. Un figlio al funerale della madre diventa, è noto, una figura dominante. Dopo il doveroso omaggio alla bara, la processione di parenti e amici termina puntualmente al suo cospetto. Hanno tutti ben visibile sul volto l'impatto psicologico della r...

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.

A New York Times Notable Book of 2012One of The Telegraph's Best Fiction Books 2011One of Esquire's Best Books of 2012One of TIME's Top 10 Fiction Books of 2012Here, from the writer described by The Guardian as "our purest living prose stylist" and whom Alan Hollinghurst has called "the most brilliant English novelist of his generation, " is a work of glittering social comedy, profound emotional truth, and acute verbal wit. At Last is also the...

St Aubyn's attention to detail and comic dialogue make this a must-read' The TimesCharlie Fairburn, successful screenwriter, ex-husband and absent father, has been given six months to live. As he heads for the south of France, he resolves to stake half his fortune on a couple of turns of the roulette wheel and, to his agent's disgust, to write a novel - about consciousness. In the casino, he meets his muse.Ricocheting helplessly from writing t...

Shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction AwardSabine 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-banker's 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 elu...

A beautifully modulated novel that shows Edward St. Aubyn at his sparkling bestCharlie 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 agent's 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...

Edward St. Aubyn is "great at dissecting an entire social world" (Michael Chabon, Los Angeles Times)Edward St. Aubyn's Patrick Melrose novels were some of the most celebrated works of fiction of the past decade. Ecstatic praise came from a wide range of admirers, from literary superstars such as Zadie Smith, Francine Prose, Jeffrey Eugenides, and Michael Chabon to pop-culture icons such as Anthony Bourdain and January Jones. Now St. Aubyn retu...