Edward St Aubyn

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.

NEVER MIND

Patrick Melrose Volume 1 contains the first three novels in Edward St Aubyn's BAFTA award-winning and Emmy nominated semi-autobiographical series, filmed for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic Patrick. Benedict Cumberbatch awarded the BAFTA for Best Actor 2019 for his portrayal of Patrick Melrose. 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 . . . Searingly funny and deeply humane, Patrick Melrose Volume 1 contains the first three novels in the Patrick Melrose series, Never Mind, Bad News and Some Hope. Patrick Melrose Volume 2 is also available, containing the final two novels in the series, Mother’s Milk and At Last.

Never Mind, Bad News and Some Hope

Patrick Melrose Volume 1

Some Hope

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, both respected psychoanalysts, adopted her as a baby. The fate of her twin birth-brother is unknown. 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. But just as Olivia is daring to fall in love, Lucy receives devastating news which requires her friends to become her family. At the same time, Olivia's father has started to treat a struggling, clever man of his daughter's age whose story sets off unnerving echoes, ethical dilemmas, and the possibility of a shattering encounter . . . Moving from London to Provence to California and back to a beautiful woodland entirely off the grid, Double Blind is a breathtaking, kaleidoscopic novel exploring friendship, love, consciousness and the natural world, and pushing against many of the received orthodoxies of popular science. It is about nature, nurture, enquiry, perception, and the myriad ways we try to understand what it means to be alive.

Double Blind

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 his chair and sprawled in front of the view. He noticed how his tears cooled as they ran down his cheeks. Washed eyes and a tired and empty feeling. Was that what other people meant by peaceful? Collected here together in a single volume are the complete Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St Aubyn, Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, Mother's Milk, and At Last. 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.

Picador Classic

The Patrick Melrose Novels

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 acquaintances and insistent inner voices, sends him into a nightmarish spiral. Alone in his room at the Pierre Hotel, he pushes body and mind to the very edge – desperate always to stay one step ahead of his rapidly encroaching past. Bad News was originally published, along with Never Mind and Some Hope, as part of a three book omnibus also called Some Hope.

Bad News

At Last

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 father, David, rules with considered cruelty, and Eleanor, his mother, has retreated into drink. They are expecting guests for dinner. But this afternoon is unlike the chain of summer days before, and the shocking events that precede the guests’ arrival tear Patrick’s world in two. Never Mind was originally published, along with Bad News and Some Hope, as part of a three book omnibus , also called Some Hope.

Never Mind

Bundeling van de vijf autobiografisch getinte romans met als hoofdfiguur Patrick Melrose.

De Patrick Melrose-romans / druk 3

Melrose

At Last is the fifth and final instalment of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick. 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.

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Mother's Milk is the fourth of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick. The once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril. Caught up in the wreckage of broken promises, child-rearing, adultery and assisted suicide, Patrick finds his wife Mary consumed by motherhood, his mother in thrall to a New Age foundation, and his young son Robert understanding far more than he should. But even as the family struggles against the pull of its ever-present past, a new generation brings a new tenderness, and the possibility of change.

Mother's Milk

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 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. ‘Perhaps the most brilliant English novelist of his generation’ Alan Hollinghurst

A Clue to the Exit

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, Abby and Megan. But relations quickly soured, leaving him 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. Who will find him first, his beloved youngest daughter, Florence, or the tigresses Abby and Megan, so keen to divest him of his estate?

King Lear Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)

Dunbar

Edward St Aubyn is de auteur van de alomgeprezen roman Moedermelk. In Wat heet hoop volgen we de belevenissen van Patrick Melrose, de hoofdpersoon van Moedermelk, in zijn jonge jaren. Hij probeert los te komen van de gruwelijkheden uit zijn jeugd met een tirannieke vader en een alcoholische moeder en van zijn verleden als drugsverslaafde. Van de Provence naar Gloucestershire volgen we Patricks wanhopige zoektocht naar bevrijding te midden van een menigte omhooggevallen leeghoofden wier smakeloosheid het mikpunt is van zijn meest stekelige en gedenkwaardige spot. Wat heet hoop is een op autobiografische feiten gebaseerd verhaal over misbruik, verslaving en herstel, en een aangrijpende en hilarische beschrijving van een reis naar de uiterste grenzen van de menselijke ervaring. Edward St Aubyn is een van de origineelste, intelligentste en geestigste stemmen in de hedendaagse literatuur.

Wat heet hoop

Een sprankelende zwarte komedie over een man die zich probeert te bevrijden van zijn pijnlijke jeugdherinneringen om zo de verlossing te vinden waar hij al jaren van droomt.Patrick Melrose is eindelijk wees geworden. Jarenlang heeft hij uitgekeken naar de crematie van zijn moeder. Nadat zijn vader hem ernstig mishandelde keerde zijn moeder, een rijke erfgename, hem de rug toe.Maar terwijl vrienden, kennissen, en vijanden binnenstromen voor de afscheidsdienst groeit in Patrick de angst dat zijn nieuwe status als wees misschien niet die bevrijding zal geven waar hij naar uitkeek. Zijn moeder heeft al die jaren een zware stempel gedrukt op zijn dagelijkse bestaan en ineens twijfelt hij of hij ooit echt van haar los zal komen.

Eindelijk

Edward St Aubyns meisterhafter Roman über einen machtbesessenen und eitlen Despot am Ende seines Lebens Sein ganzes Leben lang hat Henry Dunbar auf nichts und niemanden Rücksicht genommen, besessen von der Vision, seinen kleinen Zeitungsverlag zu einem Medienkonzern auszubauen. Auf dem Zenit seiner Macht hat nur noch einen einzigen, aber mächtigen Feind: das Alter. Dunbar weiß, er muss sein Reich in die Hände seiner Töchter legen. Nur zwei der Kinder hält er für geeignet. Doch das Leben erteilt ihm eine bittere Lektion. In seinem neuen Roman, inspiriert von Shakespeares König Lear, seziert Edward St Aubyn gekonnt innerfamiliäre Beziehungen. "Dunbar und seine Töchter" ist ein brillantes Lehrstück über Egoismus, Starrsinn und die Erkenntnis, wie leicht einem am Ende des Lebens alles Erreichte aus den Händen gleiten kann.

Roman

Dunbar und seine Töchter

I fem självrannsakande romaner följer vi Patrick Melrose från barndom till vuxenliv; från övergrepp och överdoser till överlevnad. Efter faderns roll i hans liv är turen nu kommen att skärskåda modern. Edward St Aubyn har länge setts som en klassiker i hemlandet England. När de tre första delarna kom ut på svenska 2016 höjdes de till skyarna av en enig kritikerkår: ”Alldeles fantastisk; ett fantastiskt språk, en skakande historia och en humor som befriar”, sa t ex Yukiko Duke i SVT Gomorron Sverige. Översättare: Erik Andersson

Romanerna om Patrick Melrose

Es waren nur drei Tage und Nächte mit Sabine, aber Peter, ein Londoner Banker wie aus dem Bilderbuch, kann sie nicht mehr vergessen. Auf eine beiläufige Bemerkung von ihr folgt er der Spur der flüchtigen Geliebten bis nach Kalifornien. Dort trifft er auf Amerikaner in unterschiedlichen Phasen der Selbstfindung. Beim Sermon eines Anti-guru-Gurus auf die spirituelle Freiheit oder Problemen beim tantrischen Sex beginnt auch er allmählich, sein altes Leben radikal in Frage zu stellen ...

Am Abgrund

”Det är helt enkelt exceptionellt bra. Så skarpt att orden skär ner till hjärtat, så medryckande sorgset och samtidigt så underhållande och roligt att den här recensenten vid upprepade tillfällen störde omgivningen med att skratta högt”.[Politiken] I fem självrannsakande romaner följer vi Patrick Melroses resa från barndom till vuxenliv; från övergrepp till överdoser och sedan till överlevnad. Edward St Aubyn har hyllats av en rad författare – bland andra Zadie Smith, Jonathan Franzen, Alan Hollinghurst – och har i sin giftiga skildring av den brittiska överklassen ofta jämförts med Oscar Wilde och Evelyn Waugh. Romanerna om Patrick Melrose – ”Glöm det”, ”Dåliga nyheter” och ”Visst hopp”. Översättare: Erik Andersson

Edward St Aubyn

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