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A Clue to the Exit by Edward St.Aubyn
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
At Last by Edward St. Aubyn
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Patrick Melrose Novels 5 | Reading Level: very good
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 2012 Here, from the writer described by The Guardian as "our purest living prose stylist" and whom Alan Hollinghurst has called "the most brilliant ...Show more
At Last: Patrick Melrose Novels # 5 by Edward St. Aubyn
$24.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is the eagerly anticipated new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Mother's Milk. 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 upbringi ...Show more
Bad News: Patrick Melrose Novels # 2 by Edward St. Aubyn
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Patrick Melrose Novels Ser. | Reading Level: 16
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 ...Show more
Double Blind by Edward St Aubyn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
Double Blind by Edward St Aubyn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
Dunbar: King Lear Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) by Edward St. Aubyn
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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: Fiction | 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
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
Lost for Words by Edward St. Aubyn
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'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
Mother's Milk by Edward St Aubyn
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Short-listed for the 2006 Man Booker Prize. The once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril. Caught in the wreckage of broken promises, child-rearing, adultery and assisted suicide, Patrick finds his wife consumed by motherhood, his mother consumed by a New Age foundation, and his five-year-old ...Show more
Mother's Milk by Edward St.Aubyn
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
This book is the Winner of the 2006 South Bank Literature Award. The once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril. Caught in the wreckage of broken promises, child-rearing, adultery and assisted suicide, Patrick finds his wife consumed by motherhood, his mother consumed by a New Age foundation, ...Show more