Bret Easton Ellis: 'I was always suspicious of wealth'

'The Shards' is Ellis' seventh novel, and has been treated as something of a return to form, with rave reviews since its release in January. Photo: AFP

Bret Easton Ellis is characteristically blunt about the central theme of all his work - in his words: "the rich, and how f***ed up they are".

His latest novel, The Shards, sees him revisit Buckley, the posh high school he attended in the early 1980s.