Edward St Aubyn

the-patrick-melrose-novels

For the latest books, recommendations, author interviews and more

source_10558

By signing up, I confirm that I'm over 16. To find out what personal data we collect and how we use it, please visit our <a href="/company/about-us/notices/privacy-policy/">Privacy Policy</a>

Keep an eye out for a confirmation in your inbox

Stories, ideas and giveaways to help you spark young imaginations

source_10972

The latest books, activities and tips to help you grow little readers

source_10975

About us

About Us (Header 4)

john-le-carre-a-legacy-of-spies-960-2.jpg

Margaret Atwood

Richard Osman

Malorie Blackman

George Orwell

marian_keyes_mobile_320x200px.png

Elif Shafak

shonfaye

Authors (Header 3)

Books (Header 2)

Company

Features (Header 1)

Penguin Shop (Header 5)

Useful links

A Room of One’s Own

Lady Chatterley's Lover

The House on Mango Street

Byron's Travels

Novels, Tales, Journeys

The Essential Harlem Detectives

The White Guard

Orlando

The Intuitionist

Hope Against Hope

The Best of Tagore

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Lives of the Painters Boxed Set

Passing. Quicksand. And the Stories

The Complete Fiction

Never Let Me Go

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

The King Must Die / The Bull from the Sea

Reunion

Love in a Cold Climate & The Pursuit of Love

Rebellion

The Patrick Melrose Novels

I read the five Patrick Melrose novels in five days. When I finished, I read them again

Nothing about the plots can prepare you for the rich, acerbic comedy of St. Aubyn’s world or—more surprising—its philosophical density

If something has kept you from reading this great novel in five parts, let it keep you no more.

Perhaps the most brilliant English novelist of his generation

The Patrick Melrose Novels hilariously dissect the English upper class, conjuring a world of decadence, amorality, greed, snobbery, and cruelty, but never without the possibility of grace. Taken together, they are one of the most thrilling reading experiences in contemporary fiction.

EDWARD ST. AUBYN was born in London in 1960. His acclaimed Patrick 
Melrose novels are Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, Mother's Milk (winner of the Prix Femina étranger and shortlisted for the Booker Prize), and At Last. He is also the author of A Clue to the Exit, On the Edge (short-listed for the Guardian Fiction Prize), Lost for Words (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), Double Blind, and Dunbar, his reimagining of King Lear for the Hogarth Shakespeare project.

The Patrick Melrose Novels

Select a format:

Pre-order:

Summary

Reviews

About the author

Edward St Aubyn

More in this series

Sign up to the Penguin Newsletter