Edward St Aubyn Book order (chronological)

When Olivia meets Francis, a young naturalist rewilding a corner of Sussex, and is reunited with her best friend Lucy, recently returned from a high- flying career in New York, her life expands in exciting and disorienting ways.

Čtvrtý a pátý díl ironické ságy o Patricku Melroseovi. V Mateřském mléce se s naším smutným hrdinou setkáváme jako s otcem. Patrickova minulost ovlivňuje jeho manželství, které je směsicí zmatků, příkoří, naschválů a nedorozumění. Určitá naděje se snad skrývá v jeho synkovi Robertovi. V posledním pátém dílu Konečně se příbuzní a přátelé sjíždějí na pohřeb Patrickovy matky Eleanor a Patrick jako už tolikrát zpytuje a bilancuje svůj život. Hledá odpověď na otázku, zda teď, když jsou oba rodiče po smrti, pro něj konečně přijde vysvobození a zacelení starých ran. Podle románů autor napsal scénář k pětidílné televizní minisérii nazvané podle jména hlavního hrdiny. Titulní roli bravurně ztvárnil Benedict Cumberbatch.

První tři díly částečně autobiografické pětidílné série románů o Patricku Melroseovi, která sloužila jako předloha televizní minisérie, nás zavádějí do života hlavního hrdiny. V prvním díle, Na tom nesejde (1992), se setkáváme s Patrickem a jeho rodiči, Eleanor a Davidem Melroseovými, na večeři s anglickými přáteli v provensálském městečku Lacoste. David provede svému pětiletému synovi Patrickovi několik nehorázností, které ho poznamenají na celý život. V druhém díle, Špatné zprávy (1992), je Patrickovi dvaadvacet let. Přiletěl do New Yorku pro popel svého zchudlého otce, s nímž se Eleanor rozvedla. V hotelovém pokoji se potýká s ambivalentními pocity k otci a utápí se v drogách, zatímco se snaží zvládnout smutnou záležitost s odvozem popela. Třetí díl, V Troše naděje (1994), sleduje Patricka, který se zbavil drogové závislosti a účastní se společenského večírku s princeznou Margaret. Kromě ostré konverzace a vtipných her Oscara Wildea dojde k nečekanému faux pas, kdy je princeznina róba potřísněna omáčkou. Autor mistrovsky odhaluje mravy vyšších středních vrstev a nižší šlechty s temným humorem, přičemž se vyrovnává s traumatizovaným dětstvím a odpudivými rodiči.

Moving from Provence to New York to Gloucestershire, from the savageries of a childhood with a cruel father and an alcoholic mother to an adulthood fraught with addiction, Patrick Melrose is on a mission to escape himself. But the drugs don't make him forget his past, and the glittering parties offer him no redemption.

'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.

Gjennom mer enn tjue år har Edward St. Aubyn beskrevet den engelske overklassen i bøkene om Patrick Melrose. Denne boken omfatter alle fem bøkene om Patrick Melrose.

Patrick Melrose is now a husband and father, but his family's dark past still stalks his present and threatens his hope for the future.

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 Penny Feathers of the Foreign Office, it's all just getting in the way of writing her own thriller. Over the next few weeks they must read hundreds of submissions to find the best book of the year, and so the judges spar, cajole and bargain in order that their chosen title gets the recognition it deserves. Meanwhile, a host of authors are desperate for Elysian glory, including brilliant writer and serial heart-breaker Katherine Burns, lovelorn debut novelist Sam Black, and Sonny, convinced that his magnum opus, The Mulberry Elephant, will take the literary world by storm. Lost for Words is razor-sharp and fabulously entertaining. It cuts to the quick of some of the deepest questions about the place of art in our celebrity-obsessed culture, and asks how we can ever hope to recognize real talent when everyone has an agenda.

Follows the life of Patrick Melrose, a member of an upper class English family, through his traumatic childhood with an abusive father, drug addiction, fatherhood, and the possible loss of his family home.

The narrative has been adapted into a five-part limited series on Showtime, featuring performances by Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe Danner. It delves into complex themes and character dynamics, showcasing a compelling story that captivates audiences. The adaptation promises to bring the original material to life with a fresh perspective, highlighting the emotional depth and intricate relationships within the plot.

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 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 . . . 'St Aubyn has achieved a comic novel which is more than a send-up and carries the message that love is not quite all you need' Independent 'An intellectually informed, richly insightful and vigorously funny take on the modern condition' Sunday Times 'Pierced with goodwill, tenderness and a new kind of thoughtfulness' Spectator 'His satire is unfailingly funny and immensely satisfying' Guardian

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 addicted to writing fiction as she is to gambling. His novel is set on a train and involves a group of characters (familiar to readers of St Aubyn's earlier work) 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 Aubyn's dazzling novel probes the very heart of being.

In the deep south of France, Patrick Melrose has the run of his parents' house and magical garden and the company of his vivid imagination. Yet his tyrannical father rules this world with considered cruelty while his mother makes her escape into alcoholism.

A story of abuse, addiction and recovery, this is a haunting yet funny depiction of a journey to and from the furthest limits of the human experience. This work offers what the title suggests, a conclusion and the reconciliation between the quest for forgiveness and redemption.

An up-to-the-minute dissection of the mores of child-rearing, marriage, adultery, and assisted suicide, 'Mother's Milk' is a complex family portrait that examines the shifting allegiances between mothers, sons and husbands.

'Bad News' takes Patrick into his early 20s. Constrained to fly to New York to collect his monstrous father's ashes, fully in the grip of massive addiction, he endures a weekend hunting for drugs and attempting to avoid figures from David Melrose's life.