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Beautiful Animals by Lawrence Osborne
Category: Fiction
During a white-hot summer on the idyllic Greek island of Hydra, two girls fall into each other's lives to devastating effect. When Samantha, a young, impressionable American, meets Naomi, a Brit with a taste for danger, their relationship quickly takes on a special intensity. Amid the sun, sea and high ...Show more
Beautiful Animals by Lawrence Osborne
Category: Biography
Lionel Shriver: "I recommend all of Lawrence Osborne’s novels, especially for fans of Graham Greene or Paul Bowles. Smart and scathing, he’s a natural storyteller with a seductive prose style. I’ve pushed Osborne’s novels on dozens of people. Even in person, the guy doesn’t disappoint: six-foot-and-the ...Show more
Burning Angel and Other Stories by Lawrence Osborne
Category: Fiction
The first collection of stories by 'The bastard child of Patricia Highsmith and Graham Greene' (Metro) perfectly showcases Osborne's talent for tension, atmosphere -- and characters out of their depthA naïve young linguist sent to the forests of Irian Jaya is manipulated into betraying her mission by a ...Show more
On Java Road by Lawrence Osborne
Category: Crime Fiction
A veteran British journalist living in Hong Kong investigates the disappearance of a student protestor amidst the pro-democracy demonstrations in this unsettling new novel from the acclaimed author of The ForgivenAfter twenty years as an ex-pat reporter in Hong Kong, Adrian Gyle has almost nothing to sh ...Show more
On Java Road: 'The bastard child of Graham Greene and Patricia Highsmith' METRO by Lawrence Osborne
Category: Fiction
A veteran British journalist living in Hong Kong investigates the disappearance of a student protestor amidst the pro-democracy demonstrations in this unsettling new novel from the acclaimed author of The Forgiven There came a sound of rubber bullets being fired along Java Road and the sad crowing of s ...Show more
The Forgiven by Lawrence Osborne
Category: Fiction
"A modern Graham Greene". (Sunday Times). David and Jo Henniger are on their way to a party at their old friends' home, deep in the Moroccan desert. But as a groggy David navigates the dark desert roads, two young men spring from the roadside, the car swerves and collides with one of the boys...Meanwhil ...Show more
The Glass Kingdom by Lawrence Osborne
Category: Crime Fiction
A tense, stunningly well-observed heist novel following an American woman on the run in the blazing heat of Bangkok, from 'the bastard child of Graham Greene and Patrica Highsmith' (Metro)A tense, stunningly well-observed heist novel from 'the bastard child of Graham Greene and Patrica Highsmith' (Metro ...Show more
The Wet and the Dry by Lawrence Osborne
Category: Travel
'I am taking a few months off to travel and wander, drinking my way across the Islamic world to see whether I can dry myself out, cure myself of a bout of alcoholic excess. It is a personal crisis, a private curiosity. I am curious to see how non-drinkers live. Perhaps they have something to teach me.' ...Show more
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