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 Solaceby Belinda McKeon, winner of the Irish Book of the Year 2011, and At Lastby Edward St Aubyn, the fifth novel in the critically acclaimed Patrick Melrose series.
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.