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Edward St. Aubyn Books in Order

Edward St. Aubyn has written 11 books, published between 1992 and 2025. The first book is Bad News (1992) and the newest is Parallel Lines (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
11
Published
1992–2025
Confirmed
1 of 11 titles
Pages on record
1,469 in 6 of 11 books
Reading time
24–37 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,469 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 6 of 11 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Edward St. Aubyn, author of the Patrick Melrose series

Edward St Aubyn is an English author and journalist born in 1960. The St Aubyn catalogue includes the semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, and Mother's Milk (2005) reached the Booker Prize shortlist in 2006. The catalogue counts 11 books, opening with Bad News and Never Mind (both 1992) and continuing through Lost for Words (2014), Dunbar (2017) and Double Blind (2021) to Parallel Lines (2025). Subjects include fathers and sons, the upper class, drug addicts and England.

How many Edward St. Aubyn books are there?

Edward St. Aubyn has 11 books, released between 1992 and 2025. 5 of them belong to the Patrick Melrose series.

Edward St. Aubyn Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 11 Edward St. Aubyn books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Bad News by Edward St. Aubyn, book 1 of the Patrick Melrose series (1992)
  2. Cover of Never Mind by Edward St. Aubyn, book 2 of the Patrick Melrose series (1992)
  3. Cover of Some Hope by Edward St. Aubyn, book 3 of the Patrick Melrose series (1994)
  4. Cover of On the Edge by Edward St. Aubyn (1998)
  5. Cover of A Clue to the Exit by Edward St. Aubyn (2000)
  6. Cover of Mother's Milk by Edward St. Aubyn, book 4 of the Patrick Melrose series (2005)
  7. Cover of At Last by Edward St. Aubyn, book 5 of the Patrick Melrose series (2011)
  8. Cover of Double Blind by Edward St. Aubyn (2021)
  1. 1
    Bad NewsPatrick Melrose #11992 · confirmed 1/4
    1992–
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  2. 2
    Never MindPatrick Melrose #21992 · confirmed 1/4
    1992–
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  3. 3
    Some HopePatrick Melrose #31994 · confirmed 1/4
    1994–
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  4. 4
    On the Edge1998 · 260 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1998260
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  5. 5
    A Clue to the Exit2000 · 185 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2000185
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  6. 6
    Mother's MilkPatrick Melrose #42005 · confirmed 1/4
    2005–
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  7. 7
    At LastPatrick Melrose #52011 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2011272
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  8. 8
    Lost for Words2014 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014272
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  9. 9
    DunbarHogarth Shakespeare #62017 · 224 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2017224
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  10. 10
    Double Blind2021 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2021256
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  11. 11
    Parallel Lines2025 · confirmed 1/4
    2025–
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Edward St. Aubyn books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Patrick Melrose in order

5 books
  1. 1. Bad News
  2. 2. Never Mind
  3. 3. Some Hope
  4. 4. Mother's Milk
  5. 5. At Last

Hogarth Shakespeare in order

1 book
  1. 6. Dunbar

Standalone books

5 books

5 Edward St. Aubyn titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Edward St. Aubyn books in order?

You only need to read Edward St. Aubyn books in order within the Patrick Melrose series, which holds 5 of the 11 Edward St. Aubyn books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Edward St. Aubyn

Start with Bad News (1992), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Edward St. Aubyn book?

Parallel Lines (2025) is the newest Edward St. Aubyn book released so far.

Is there a new Edward St. Aubyn book coming?

No next Edward St. Aubyn book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Awards Edward St. Aubyn has won

Wikidata records 2 awards and 1 nomination for Edward St. Aubyn. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize2014Won
  • Prix Femina étranger2007Won
  • Booker Prize2006Shortlistedfor Mother's Milk

Edward St. Aubyn at a glance

Still publishing
Edward St. Aubyn published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Edward St. Aubyn books have appeared about one every 3 years on average.
Length
1,469 pages across the 6 of 11 books with a recorded length, a median of 258 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Edward St. Aubyn books, 4 of 11, were published in the 1990s.

What the Edward St. Aubyn books are about

10 of the 11 Edward St. Aubyn books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: coming of age is tagged on 3 of 10. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.