Edward St Aubyn

Edward St Aubyn

Edward St Aubyn was born in London in 1960. He is the author of the novels A Clue to the Exit and On the Edge, and the trilogy Some Hope. Mother's Milk was the winner of the Prix Femina Etranger 2007. 

Read extracts from Picador's featured books, including Solace by Belinda McKeon, winner of the Irish Book of the Year 2011, and At Last by Edward St Aubyn, the fifth novel in the critically acclaimed Patrick Melrose series.

Joseph Marren
 
On 12th April Picador will publish the reissued At Last, the fifth and final novel in the Patrick Melrose saga.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the writing of the man the Guardian called 'our purest living prose stylist' we've provided the opening chapters of each of the five books below. 

Enjoy!

Joseph Marren
 
Listen to Edward St Aubyn reading from his novel At Last, the fifth and final book of the Melrose saga.

Joseph Marren
 

Read the opening chapter of Some Hope, the third book from the Melrose novels by Edward St Aubyn. 

Joseph Marren
 

Read the opening chapter of Bad News, the second of five Melrose novels by Edward St Aubyn.