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The brilliant culmination of the Melrose novels. As friends, relations and foes trickle in to pay final respects to his mother, Eleanor, Patrick Melrose finds that orphanhood isn't necessarily the liberation he had for so long imagined. Yet is it possible that as the service ends... and the family gather for a final party, amidst the social niceties and the social horrors, the calms and the rapids, Patrick begins to sense a new current - even a form of safety? A powerful, glittering novel of the treacheries of family, At Last is the brilliant and profoundly moving culmination of the Melrose books.
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Bad News is a brilliant portrait of socialite Manhattan and its dark avenues, and of a hallucinatory, desperate attempt to hide from the encroaching past. Twenty-two years old and in the grip of a massive addiction, Patrick Melrose is forced to fly to New York to collect his fath...er's ashes. Over the course of a weekend, Patrick's remorseless search for drugs on the avenues of Manhattan, haunted by old acquaintances and insistent inner voices, sends him into a nightmarish spiral. Alone in his room at the Pierre Hotel, he pushes body and mind to the very edge - desperate always to stay one step ahead of his rapidly encroaching past.
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The first Patrick Melrose novel. In the deep south of France, Patrick Melrose has the run of his parents' house and magical garden, and the company of his vivid imagination. Yet his tyrannical father rules this world with considered cruelty, while his mother makes her escape into... alcoholism. The life of the house is intense and unpredictable, and never more so than on this particular day. David and Eleanor are to host a dinner party, and the shocking events that precede the guests' arrival will shape the rest of Patrick's life. Never Mind is the first of the Melrose novels. Moving between heartbreak and devastating wit, it explores the damaging reach of parenthood and introduces an unforgettable cast of characters.
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The first Patrick Melrose novel. In the deep south of France, Patrick Melrose has the run of his parents' house and magical garden, and the company of his vivid imagination. Yet his tyrannical father rules this world with considered cruelty, while his mother makes her escape into... alcoholism. The life of the house is intense and unpredictable, and never more so than on this particular day. David and Eleanor are to host a dinner party, and the shocking events that precede the guests' arrival will shape the rest of Patrick's life. Never Mind is the first of the Melrose novels. Moving between heartbreak and devastating wit, it explores the damaging reach of parenthood and introduces an unforgettable cast of characters.
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Bad News is a brilliant portrait of socialite Manhattan and its dark avenues, and of a hallucinatory, desperate attempt to hide from the encroaching past. Twenty-two years old and in the grip of a massive addiction, Patrick Melrose is forced to fly to New York to collect his fath...er's ashes. Over the course of a weekend, Patrick's remorseless search for drugs on the avenues of Manhattan, haunted by old acquaintances and insistent inner voices, sends him into a nightmarish spiral. Alone in his room at the Pierre Hotel, he pushes body and mind to the very edge - desperate always to stay one step ahead of his rapidly encroaching past.
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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 g...ood writing. But for Penny Feathers of the Foreign Office, it's all just getting in the way of writing her own thriller.
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A New York Times Bestselling Author Be Careful What You Wish For opens with Harry and Emma Clifton rushing to the hospital to learn the fate of their son' who has been involved in a fatal car accident. But who died' Sebastian or his best friend Bruno?
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A New York Times Bestselling Author Archer delivers another page-turning' heart-stopping saga ...readers will surely wait for the next with bated breath. - Publishers Weekly
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A New York Times Bestselling Author Archer delivers another page-turning' heart-stopping saga ...readers will surely wait for the next with bated breath. - Publishers Weekly
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A New York Times Bestselling Author Be Careful What You Wish For opens with Harry and Emma Clifton rushing to the hospital to learn the fate of their son' who has been involved in a fatal car accident. But who died' Sebastian or his best friend Bruno?
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