Dunbar
King Lear, Retold
$23.60
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2026
Summary
SHAKESPEARE RETOLD: Nine iconic plays transformed by the best novelists of our time, with covers by Michael Craig-Martin.
Shakespeare’s King Lear is reimagined in Edward St Aubyn’s gripping story of a media mogul who has lost control. Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he handed over care of the corporation to his two eldest daughters, Abby and Megan. But relations quickly soured, leaving him to doubt the wis…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784878818 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784878812 |
| Author: | Edward St Aubyn |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 166g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 129mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Shakespeare Retold |
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Edward St Aubyn
Edward St Aubyn was born in London. His superbly acclaimed Patrick Melrose novels are Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, Mother’s Milk (winner of the Prix Femina etranger and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize), and At Last. The series was made into a BAFTA-award winning Sky Atlantic TV series starring Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role. St Aubyn is also the author of A Clue to the Exit, On the Edge (shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize), Lost for Words (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), and Dunbar, his re-imagining of King Lear for Hogarth Shakespeare.
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