The fifth and final triumphant conclusion to St Aubyn's sequence about boyhood traumas and adult tribulations which 'fizzes with his astringent verbal flair and lethal ear for dialogue.' - Peter Kemp, Sunday Times. As friends, relatives and foes trickle in to pay their final respects to his mother Eleanor, Patrick Melrose finds himself questioning whether a life without parents will be the liberation he has so long imagined. Yet as the memorial service ends and the family gathers one last time, amidst the social niceties and the social horrors, the calms and the rapids, Patrick begins to sense a new current - the chance of some form of safety, at last. 'Urgent emotional intensity, brilliant social satire...' this entertaining saga reaches its conclusion in this 264 page paperback.

22 years old and in the grip of a massive addiction, Patrick Melrose is forced to fly to New York to collect his father's ashes. Over the course of the weekend his 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 of heroin addiction, alcoholism, marital infidelity and self-destructive behaviour. Open to old or young, vicious, and excruciatingly honest, this popular modern author is highly praised 'as an analyser of broken minds and tired hearts he is as energetic, careful and creative as the perfect shrink.' 'The wit of Wilde, the lightness of Wodehouse and the waspishness of Waugh. A joy.' - Zadie Smith. 242pp, paperback.

The fourth in the series. 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 Robert understanding far more than he should. But even as the family struggles against the pull of its ever-present past, a new generation brings new tenderness and the possibility of change. 'With the piercing funniness of St Aubyn at his brilliant best' this is a big and openhearted novel in the series. 279pp, paperback.

The third in the series. Now cleaned up and world weary, Patrick Melrose is a reluctant guest at a glittering party deep in the English countryside. Amid a crowd of flitting social dragonflies he finds his search for redemption and capacity for forgiveness challenged by his observation of the cruelties around him. Armed with his biting wit and a newly fashioned openness, can Patrick, who has been to the furthest limits of experience, drug addiction and alcoholism and back again, find release from the savageries of his childhood? Blackly comic, crisp and light brimming with sardonic perceptiveness and literary finesse. 209pp, paperback.

The novel shares the stories of 12 different lives which at times intersect and won the 2019 Booker Prize and its author, Bernardine Evaristo who became the first black woman to receive the award. The book starts on opening night at the National Theatre where Amma anticipates the debut of her new play, 'The Last Amazon of Dahomey' which is based around the life of a Dahomey Amazon, an all-female military regiment in what is today Benin, which existed from 1600s until late 1800s. Spend time with Carole who lives with her Nigerian-born mother Bummi in a south London flat and excels in school to become a successful banker, with the help of her teacher Shirley King. A couple visits Hattie on her farm which has been in her family for 200 years and later Hattie will face revelations over how her family came to make their fortune and buy the farm. The book transports the reader, whether to Carole's flat in London, Bummi's youth in Lagos, life in Plymouth, a commune on the Spirit Moon ranch in America and the life of three girls at university. The story is one of intergenerational experiences, moving from the 1960s to the UK we are familiar with today. Evaristo focuses on people who are often "othered" by society and she told the Guardian she wrote the book as she was frustrated that black British women weren't visible in literature. The form is based on fusion fiction (the absence of full stops and the use of long sentences) which allows the reader's imagination to flow with each character's thoughts. Paperback, 454pp.

Janet is caught between care work and caring for herself. Her life revolves around Sean, a talented fine art student, living and working with cerebral palsy. Both Janet and Sean are new to London and far from their families and both are finding a means of escape through pushing their bodies to the limit. When Sean is faced with an unexpected and deeply personal tragedy, his carer Janet must let her guard down at last and discover what she's prepared to fight for. The whole concept of Sean's art he is able to produce with Janet's help is deeply moving, drawing attention to his body and disability but on his own terms in his own highly original and powerful ways. Shocking and different, this a raw and rather beautiful and unflinching look inside the life of a disabled person and their relationship with their carer, a novel about dignity and intimacy, tenderness and brutality. 259pp, fairly large print.

A powerful novel which brings to life the Bauhaus Movement. Luise Schilling wants to tear down the past and build a new future. At the beginning of the turbulent 1920s, she leaves her father's conservative household in Berlin for Weimar's Bauhaus University, with dreams of studying architecture. But when she arrives and encounters a fractured social world of mystics and formalists, communists and fascists, the dichotomy between the rigid past and a hopeful future turns out to be a lot more muddled than she thought. Luise becomes involved with a cult-like spiritual group, looking for community, and falling in love with elusive art student Jakob. Surrounded by luminaries like Gropius and Kandinsky, Luise throws herself into the dreams and ideas of her epoch. While her art school friends retreat into a world of self-improvement and jargon, her home city of Berlin is embroiled in street fights. Amid the social upheaval, she has to decide where she stands. From technology to art, romanticism to the avant-garde, populism to the youth movement, Luise encounters themes, utopias and ideas that still ring familiar today. Told in the first person, a coming-of-age story to immerse yourself in the atmosphere and setting, first in the Weimar and in the second in Dessau, both reflecting the political and cultural shifts in the schools' movement across Germany and its director Walter Gropius, depicted as a distant, imposing figure. 224pp. One illus.

Boy meets girl and a modern love story emerges, complete with lots of gritty humour, bad language, sexual references and oh, to be young again! The two voices work really well, and you find yourself laughing out loud one minute then screaming at the book the next and sobbing your heart out in this very easy quick read, designed as young adult fiction. 'It's Leeds, I said, not Hollywood. You're not going to find a hero working down Kwikfit.' Matt and Sophia live in the same city but they come from the opposite side of the track. By rights they should never have met. They definitely should never have fallen in love at first sight, of all cliches. But to their great surprise they do and that's the easy part. It's what to do next that they struggle with. Family, friends and circumstances are mostly against them. They betray themselves and each other. It's true what they say - everybody hurts sometimes but sometimes too, the pain is worth it. Teenage to young adult fiction. 342pp, paperback.

A rare view from inside the House of Commons and Westminster of the Machiavellian machinations for power, this is a snappy page turner by the slimmed down MP. Once allies, Labour MP Owen McKenna and Conservative Minister Philip Bickford now face each other across the House of Commons as bitter enemies. Then the reappearance of a figure from their past forces them to confront the choices that led to the tragic downfall of their former housemate, Jay. Late one night, Owen receives a visit from a lobbyist who promises to protect him from the consequences of his actions in exchange for a small favour, or to have his reputation and career utterly destroyed if he refuses. But that favour will sell out everything Owen believes in. As rivals gather and whispers of wrongdoing fill the corridors of Westminster, it's clear that someone knows the truth about Jay's Icarus-like fall from grace and now the former friends must face one terrible truth. Someone is responsible, and a reckoning is overdue. This was the landmark, headline-making debut novel from the former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and bestselling novelist Imogen Robertson, a prescient political thriller about secrets, lies, ruthless ambition and betrayal. 373 pages in large softback with fairly large print.

Filthy and ferociously funny, according to the OED Lush has two meanings - as a noun a habitual drunkard and as an adjective 'very rich and providing great sensory pleasure'. The novel is both, full of raucous stories and eye-watering honesty. Gabby and Emma have been best friends since primary school in Wales. Emma has a stable job, a nice home and has just got engaged. Gabby has had a succession of disastrous one-night stands and awful jobs since drama school, and she has just been diagnosed with scurvy. She has one year until the wedding to pull herself together and prove to her friends and family that she can be a proper grown-up. Can she? Based on the author?s popular blog of her life as a struggling actress with a taste for gin. Very modern, be prepared for swearing and projectile vomit and cuddly toys and more. 287pp, paperback.