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Dunbar

King Lear, Retold
By Edward St Aubyn
Series: Shakespeare Retold
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Shakespeare’s King Lear is reimagined in Edward St Aubyn's gripping story of a media mogul who has lost control. 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... Read More
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Shakespeare’s King Lear is reimagined in Edward St Aubyn's gripping story of a media mogul who has lost control.

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 wisdom of past decisions.

Now imprisoned in a care home in the Lake District with only a demented alcoholic comedian as company, Dunbar starts planning his escape. As he flees into the hills, his family is hot on his heels. Who will find him first, his beloved youngest daughter, Florence, or the tigresses Abby and Megan, so keen to divest him of his estate?

‘Malevolently enjoyable… A fable of fatherly neglect and daughterly cruelty’ Financial Times

‘Deeply affecting…and funny’ Observer

SHAKESPEARE RETOLD: Time travel. Zombies. Power-hungry media moguls. This is Shakespeare as you’ve never seen him before: nine iconic plays transformed by the best novelists of our time, with covers by Michael Craig-Martin.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781784878818

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 March 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage Classics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 166g

Pages: 224

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Classic Fiction Edward St Aubyn Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Penguin Books Series: Shakespeare Retold

About the Author

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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