{"product_id":"9781035063741","title":"Bad News","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  St Aubyn, Edward \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 3 April 2025 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Picador Collection' series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 256 pages\u003cbr\u003e197 x 130 x 18 | 180g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘I’ve loved Edward St Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose novels. Read them all, now’ - David NichollsBad News is the second of Edward St Aubyn’s semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the aristocratic addict, Patrick.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty-two 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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBad News was originally published, along with Never Mind and Some Hope, as part of a three-book omnibus also called Some Hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘The Melrose novels are remarkable – ferociously funny, painfully acute and exhilaratingly written’ - Peter Kemp, Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46738639913219,"sku":"9781035063741","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9781035063741.jpg?v=1744299585","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.live\/products\/9781035063741","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}