Bad News

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. 'A beautifully written novel, whose harrowing but fiercely funny portrait of addiction is the best I've ever read' Time Out 'St Aubyn conveys the chaos of emotion, the confusion of heightened sensation, and the daunting contradictions of intellectual endeavour with a force and subtlety that have an exhilarating, almost therapeutic effect' Francis Wyndham, New York Review of Books 'Our purest living prose stylist' Guardian