Browse by category
A Clue to the Exit by Edward St.Aubyn
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
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 addi ...Show more
At Last by Edward St Aubyn
$30.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: The\Patrick Melrose Novels Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A "New York Times" Notable Book of the YearA "Time Magazine" Best Book of the YearAn "Esquire" Best Book of Year "Beautifully wrought . . . Brutally funny and sad."--Vanity Fair Here, from the writer described by "The Guardian" as "our purest living prose stylist" and whom Alan Hollinghurst has called " ...Show more
At Last by Edward St. Aubyn
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: The Patrick Melrose Novels 5 | Reading Level: very good
A New York Times Notable Book of 2012One of The Telegraph's Best Fiction Books 2011One of Esquire's Best Books of 2012One of TIME's Top 10 Fiction Books of 2012 Here, from the writer described by The Guardian as "our purest living prose stylist" and whom Alan Hollinghurst has called "the most brilliant ...Show more
At Last: Patrick Melrose Novels # 5 by Edward St. Aubyn
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
This is the eagerly anticipated new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Mother's Milk. For Patrick Melrose, 'family' is more than a double-edged sword. As friends, relations and foes trickle in to pay final respects to his mother, Eleanor - an heiress who forsook the grandeur of her upbringi ...Show more
Double Blind by Edward St Aubyn
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
Following three friends and their circle through a year of transformation, Double Blind is about the headlong pursuit of knowledge - for pleasure, revelation, money, sanity, survival - and the consequences of fleeing what we already know about others and ourselves. When Olivia meets a new lover, Franci ...Show more
Lost for Words by Edward St. Aubyn
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Each of the judges of the Elysian Prize for literature has a reason for accepting the job. For the chairman, MP Malcolm Craig, it is backbench boredom, media personality Jo Cross is on the hunt for a 'relevant' novel, and Oxbridge academic Vanessa Shaw is determined to discover good writing. But for Pen ...Show more
Mother's Milk by Edward St.Aubyn
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
This book is the Winner of the 2006 South Bank Literature Award. The once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril. Caught in the wreckage of broken promises, child-rearing, adultery and assisted suicide, Patrick finds his wife consumed by motherhood, his mother consumed by a New Age foundation, ...Show more
Mother's Milk: Patrick Melrose Novels # 4 by Edward St. Aubyn
$28.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Patrick Melrose Novels | Reading Level: 16
THE FOURTH PATRICK MELROSE NOVEL 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 Rober ...Show more
On the Edge by Edward St.Aubyn
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Sabine is the most mercurial woman Peter Thorpe has ever known. Such is his desire for her that he overturns his whole life -- his disillusioned merchant-banker's life -- and leaves everything behind, not caring that his lover is of no fixed address, nor that his search for her will take him to the beat ...Show more
Patrick Melrose Volume 1: Never Mind, Bad News and Some Hope by Edward St Aubyn
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Patrick Melrose Volume 1 contains the first three novels in Edward St Aubyn's Emmy nominated semi-autobiographical series, filmed for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic Patrick.Moving from Provence to New York to Gloucestershire, from the savageries of a childhood with a crue ...Show more
Patrick Melrose Volume 2: Mother's Milk and At Last by Edward St Aubyn
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Patrick Melrose Volume 2 contains the final two novels in Edward St Aubyn's Emmy nominated semi-autobiographical series, filmed for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic Patrick.The once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril, and Patrick Melrose, now a husband and fath ...Show more
The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St Aubyn
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
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 h ...Show more