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A Clue to the Exit by Edward St. Aubyn
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
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 agent's disgust, to write a novel - about death. In the casino he meets his muse. Charlie grows as addi ...Show more
Double Blind by Edward St Aubyn
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
Three friends encounter the limits of love, life and science in this mesmerising new novel from the author of the Patrick Melrose series.Olivia is a talented geneticist with a personal stake in her field. She thinks deeply about who she is and why -- more deeply than many, perhaps, because her parents, ...Show more
Double Blind by Edward St Aubyn
$32.99 AUD
Category: General
Following three friends and their circle through a year of transformation, Double Blind is about the headlong pursuit of knowledge - for pleasure, revelation, money, sanity, survival - and the consequences of fleeing what we already know about others and ourselves. When Olivia meets a new lover, Franci ...Show more
Dunbar: King Lear Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) by Edward St. Aubyn
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Hogarth Shakespeare Ser.
From the author of the Patrick Melrose novels, now a major Sky Atlantic television series starring Benedict Cumberbatch Henry 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, Abb ...Show more
Dunbar - King Lear retold by Edward St. Aubyn
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Hogarth Shakespeare | Reading Level: very good
A reimagining of one of Shakespeare's most well-read tragedies, by the contemporary, critically acclaimed master of domestic drama Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he hands over care of the corporation to his two eldest dau ...Show more
Lost for Words by Edward St. Aubyn
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
'Belly-achingly hilarious' Sunday Times 'Written with restless wit ...a pleasure.' Observer 'What makes you smile, and smile, and smile is the elegance of the writing. Seldom was so much pretentiousness skewered so stylishly.' Novel of the Week, Mail on Sunday 'Everything St. Aubyn writes is worth readi ...Show more
Lost for Words by Edward St. Aubyn
$34.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Each of the judges of the Elysian Prize for literature has a reason for accepting the job. For the chairman, MP Malcolm Craig, it is backbench boredom, media personality Jo Cross is on the hunt for a 'relevant' novel, and Oxbridge academic Vanessa Shaw is determined to discover good writing. But for Pen ...Show more
On the Edge by Edward St. Aubyn
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
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-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 beatin ...Show more
Patrick Melrose Volume 1: Never Mind, Bad News and Some Hope by Edward St Aubyn
$19.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Patrick Melrose Volume 1 contains the first three novels in Edward St Aubyn's Emmy nominated semi-autobiographical series, filmed for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic Patrick.Moving from Provence to New York to Gloucestershire, from the savageries of a childhood with a crue ...Show more
The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St. Aubyn
$49.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: good-very good
Acclaimed for their searing wit and their deep humanity, this magnificent cycle of novels - in which Patrick Melrose battles to survive the savageries of his childhood and lead a self-determined life - is one of the major achievements in English fiction.
The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St Aubyn
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
Filmed for Sky Atlantic, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, The Patrick Melrose Novels is the complete collection of Edward St Aubyn's award-winning novels of childhood trauma and aristocratic decadence. This Picador Classics edition features an introduction by author Zadie Smith.Patrick slid back down in h ...Show more
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