Born in England, Lawrence Osborne is the author of the critically
acclaimed novels The Forgiven, The Ballad of a Small Player,
Hunters in the Dark, Beautiful Animals, Only to Sleep- A Philip
Marlowe novel (commissioned by the Raymond Chandler estate) and The
Glass Kingdom. His non-fiction ranges from memoir through
travelogue to essays, including Bangkok Days, The Naked Tourist and
The Wet and the Dry. His short story 'Volcano' was selected for
Best American Short Stories 2012.
The Forgiven, starring Ralph Fiennes, Matt Smith and Jessica
Chastain was released in 2022. Osborne lives in Bangkok.
Brilliant... clear but strong, full of mood and meaning
*SUNDAY TIMES*
Compelling and unnerving
*SPECTATOR*
If you appreciate stories with stings in the tail, you will enjoy
this fiendishly cunning new collection... Osborne not only has the
knack of keeping readers guessing, but the rarer gift of drawing
them into the interior world of his characters
*Mail on Sunday*
Graham Greene praised Patricia Highsmith as “the poet of
apprehension”, and there is something of Highsmith in Osborne’s
vision of the treacherous uncertainty of human fortunes, but he has
a cooler eye. “Ghost”…is one of the most unsettling pieces of
writing I’ve ever read
*NEW STATESMAN, *Books of the Year**
This is stylish, subversive fiction from a writer at the top of his
game
*NEW STATESMAN, *Books of the Year**
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