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Dunbar

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9781784701697

  • Length: 224  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 197g

  • RRP: £8.99

Dunbar

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?

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9781784701697

  • Length: 224  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 197g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • St Aubyn has a natural talent for keeping you on the edge of your seat… His prose has an easy charm that masks a ferocious, searching intellect

    The Times

  • Malevolently enjoyable… A fable of fatherly neglect and daughterly cruelty

    Financial Times

  • Deeply affecting…and funny

    Observer

  • Powerful… Entertaining

    Spectator

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About the Author

Edward St Aubyn

Edward St Aubyn was born in London. His superbly acclaimed Patrick Melrose novels are Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, Mother's Milk (winner of the Prix Femina étranger and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize), and At Last. The series was made into a BAFTA-award winning Sky Atlantic TV series starring Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role. St Aubyn is also the author of A Clue to the Exit, On the Edge (shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize), Lost for Words (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), and Dunbar, his re-imagining of King Lear for Hogarth Shakespeare.

Edward St Aubyn

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Double Blind, by Edward St Aubyn, to be published on 18 March 2021

Edward St Aubyn’s much-anticipated new novel, Double Blind, is to be published in March 2021 and is his first major work since At Last, which concluded the internationally acclaimed Patrick Melrose series in 2011.
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Extracts

Dunbar by Edward St Aubyn

Despotism, finance and family clash in the savage and heartbreaking new novel from Edward St Aubyn, author of the Patrick Melrose novels that inspired the Sky Atlantic TV series starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Read on for the first chapter of Dunbar.

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