Page 14 - Double Blind News Today

Double Blind follows three close friends and their circle through a year of extraordinary transformation. Set between London, Cap d'Antibes, Big Sur, and a r...

After the scorched earth of the Melrose books, St. Aubyn returns with a gentler satire, Double Blind.

St. Aubyn’s new novel, “Double Blind,” tells two love stories against the backdrop of brain-mapping, biochemistry, botany and the ethics of placebos.

In his five-part series about Patrick Melrose, an upper-class victim of sexual abuse by his father, Edward St Aubyn set a high bar for tragi-comic fiction. Popularised in a TV adaptation starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the sardonic, troubled central character, these books marked St Aubyn out as a latter day heir to Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell, by way of William Burroughs. Double Blind shifts the dial, but remains within touching distance of his old beat. At its core are issues of menta...

The actor will narrate the audiobook of Patrick Melrose authors new novel. Benedict Cumberbatch is teaming up with Edward St. Aubyn once more. The Double Blind, The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively announce. Set between London, Cap dAntibes, Big Sur, and a rewilded corner of Sussex, Aubyns novel centers on three friends Olivia, Lucy and Francis and their inner circle and follows them through a year of transformation. Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux describes  Double Blind as an "expa...

Edward St Aubyn is best known for his immersive, darkly comic sequence of five autobiographical novels about the childhood, youth and middle age of Patrick Melrose, a minor English aristocrat who finds himself hooked on heroin after being repeatedly raped in childhood by his father. His publisher calls his new book his “first major work” since At Last, the fifth Melrose novel, which he’s surely too shrewd not to see as a diss on the two novels...

Will the Federal Government Finally Embrace the Psychedelic Revolution? Will the Federal Government Finally Embrace the Psychedelic Revolution? From approving religious exemptions to budgeting for medical research, advocates are hopeful that Biden and a Democratic Congress could mean progress for psilocybin and other therapeutic psychedelics Shelby Hartman, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail This column is a collaboration with DoubleBlind, a print magazine and media company at the forefront of t...

Hungerford Bookshop says #Stay-home-and-read Trish Lee  ); There are some fantastic new books to look forward to in 2021 and while the lockdown is in place it’s a great time to stay inside and read. We asked EMMA MILNE-WHITE from our award-winning local independent Hungerford Bookshop for the heads-up on fiction to look forward to. LET’S start with a novel that’s getting a lot of press and radio attention. Mrs Death Misses Death, by the performance poet Salena Godden is published on Janu...

23 books to read in 2021 Todays best articles Daily business briefing Solving COVID newsletter It has been nearly a year now since most of us have enjoyed a book in any of the usual places: a coffee shop, on a commute, in an airplane, on a beach. But that hasnt stopped people from reading — in fact, the opposite. Speaking personally, 2020 made me extra grateful for all the moments I spent with paper and ink, away from yet another screen containing no good news. Now we seem on the cusp of ...

Everyone’s Talking About... No One Is Talking About This (Bloomsbury, February) by Patricia Lockwood, the ‘Poet Laureate of Twitter’, is set to be one of 2021’s buzziest books: a riveting novel about the collision between real and online life. Meanwhile, the sexy and absurdly readable Luster by Raven Leilani (Picador, January) is an unflinching interrogation of racial and sexual politics that carries ringing endorsements from Zadie Smith and Candice Carty-Williams. Rahul Raina’s How T...