Choose your holiday read as carefully as you choose your friends... a sinister and ravishing literary thriller
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.
Both impossible to put down and beautifully written: a great
combo
*Observer Books of the Year*
An astute, unsentimental critique of the contemporary world in
crisis... Osborne handles surface and depth with immense skill, as
only great writers can do. Beautiful Animals is his most
accomplished book so far -- a big, clever, crazed beast of a
novel
*Financial Times*
Often almost literally bristling with menace… his Hydra is rugged
with physical immediacy. Silhouetted against it, emotions
fluctuate, sexual frissons flicker back and forth, destinies
tremble in the balance… It’s the brilliance with which Osborne
conjures all this up that leaves you eager to see where his nomadic
imagination will take him next
*Sunday Times*
Osborne is a startlingly good observer of privilege, noting the
rites and rituals of the upper classes with unerring precision and
an undercurrent of malice
*New York Times Book Review*
Osborne is a startlingly good observer of privilege, noting the
rites and rituals of the upper classes with unerring precision and
an undercurrent of malice… The novel takes on the tone of an
existential noir, evoking writers like Jean-Patrick Manchette and
Georges Simenon... An heir to Graham Greene... he shares with
Greene an interest in what might be called the moral thriller
*New York Times Book Review*
Complex and thrilling, Beautiful Animals confirms Osborne as one of
Britain’s very best novelists
*Mail on Sunday*
Beautiful Animals is terrifically well constructed, written with
mean authority, brilliantly evocative about place … A masterpiece
of disaffection
*Evening Standard*
Spare, subtle… brilliantly achieved
*Times Literary Supplement*
Osborne is interested in what his characters do when events are
wrested out of their control, his narratives unfurling like a set
of carefully lined-up dominoes… It’s exciting for sure, but cuts
closer to the bone than Osborne’s previous novels and is all the
more distressing and depressing for it
*Independent*
Superlatively gripping… Osborne plunges his characters far from the
luminescent surface and into the darkest depths
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