https://www.lawrenceosborne.net/our-story daily 0.75 2020-05-07 https://www.lawrenceosborne.net/books daily 0.75 2020-08-30 https://www.lawrenceosborne.net/films daily 0.75 2020-06-30 https://www.lawrenceosborne.net/home daily 1.0 2026-01-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e78ffdc35da54770b512a00/1601338305084-21XTJGK5RYXESN4KGTDS/BlankRectangle.png Home - Lawrence Osborne Lawrence Osborne is the author of The Forgiven, Hunters in the Dark, The Ballad of a Small Player, Beautiful Animals, The Wet and the the Dry, Bangkok Days, Only to Sleep, The Glass Kingdom and On Java Road. His latest work is Burning Angel, a collection of short stories published in 2023. His novel “Children of Wolves” will be published in 2026. https://www.lawrenceosborne.net/films-lawrence-osborne daily 0.75 2026-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e78ffdc35da54770b512a00/1601365577220-81CPJ7WFNLUR70MSGXK2/24993118_10155925982011382_6529072312000622335_n.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e78ffdc35da54770b512a00/1600999294746-RJVM6FI8WGF9QSFDB14F/Forgiven2.png Films - The Forgiven Directed by John Michael McDonagh, with Ralph Fiennes, Jessica Chastain, Matt Smith, Said Taghmaoui,Caleb Landry Jones, Marie-Josee Croze and Imane El Mechrafi. Focus and Universal released worldwide in 2022. Its world premiere was a Gala screening at the Toronto film festival on September 11th 2021 Credit: Executive Producer, writer of the novel. Guest appearance as “seedy expat at El Miznah bar.” “Watching the intriguing and unpredictable adult drama The Forgiven, which takes place right in the heart of the High Atlas mountains in Morocco, I couldn’t help but think that if the 2012 book on which it is based were around a few decades earlier this would be the kind of movie Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor would have made.” Pete Hammond, Deadline. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e78ffdc35da54770b512a00/1601338368085-RTBFGFCF17HCUZJXWEHZ/BlankRectangle.png Films - River of Time Legendary war correspondent Jon Swain has granted option rights to Lawrence Osborne to adapt his Vietnam War era memoir River of Time for the big screen. Nicholas Simon and Indochina Productions to produce, with Lawrence Osborne as Executive Producer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e78ffdc35da54770b512a00/1601000111318-2Q611TX35OMJ637LL43W/OTSLines-2.png Films - Only to Sleep https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e78ffdc35da54770b512a00/1601000387689-7PWIOZC6LPNC2CA9I5JW/BA.png Films - Beautiful Animals Currently in development with Java Road and Closer Media https://www.lawrenceosborne.net/books-lawrence-osborne daily 0.75 2025-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e78ffdc35da54770b512a00/1601066649070-CL44IWTJ4D1DJS285HO7/Forgiven5.png Books - The Forgiven “Once in a while, a novel comes along that has the slender, ripped body of sharp, exquisitely constructed literary fiction and the quicksilver, pumping mind of a slinky, gut-jabbing thriller. That novel, this year, is Lawrence Osborne’s The Forgiven…into this relatively quiet period for British fiction, someone remarkable and unexpected — lingering between the shadowy, post-colonial penumbra of Greene and the brave new horizons of a globalised world — has emerged fully armed with a formidable, masterly grip on the British novel.” - Robert Collins, The Sunday Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e78ffdc35da54770b512a00/1585050004801-1KPPW6V56B3KVTY8D80I/The-Forgiven.jpg Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e78ffdc35da54770b512a00/243ba471-425d-42a6-a374-16ec1f2660a7/thumbnail-1.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e78ffdc35da54770b512a00/ac73e7da-1eeb-46e7-a373-979a5b5701f0/41cgbP8JZyL._SY346_.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e78ffdc35da54770b512a00/9fe407ee-83f1-4d76-bd44-83c0dd81aedd/515WSVi5U3L.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e78ffdc35da54770b512a00/1601067098536-UD804AT8M7MKEFCDJKCI/Ballad_2.png Books - The Ballad of a Small Player “I’ll go right ahead say it : Osborne’s novel is the best on contemporary China since Malraux’s.” - Paul French, Los Angeles Times Book Review “A perfectly written existential thriller, a spooky, gripping, heart-in-your-mouth read that has profound things to say about the only god who rules human affairs – chance.” - Neel Mukherjee, New Statesman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e78ffdc35da54770b512a00/1585053763344-SV4PU8ZLEG5HR9OK742A/BALLAD.jpg Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e78ffdc35da54770b512a00/1601070711675-2IVNTZIAD0CQ7IG2DMRB/HuntersMan.png Books - Hunters in the Dark “Osborne’s brilliance as a travel writer places his web of deceit, greed and need … in a world conjured up with dazzling immediacy… Sumptuous and sinister, languorous and tense, this is a novel that gives Osborne’s remarkable talents haunting scope.” -Peter Kemp, The Sunday Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e78ffdc35da54770b512a00/1585059435502-OVMLWFSHX6D6G1WSQMJJ/Hunters%2Bin%2Bthe%2BDark%2Bcopy.jpg Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e78ffdc35da54770b512a00/1601071058497-89JDBU8A15FFM92RSD02/BA-2.png Books - Beautiful Animals “An astute, unsentimental critique of the contemporary world in crisis… “Osborne's distinguished palette includes the big yearning of Scott Fitzgerald and the decadent hedonism of Charles Baudelaire. Most impressive of all, and there is much to be impressed by, he 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.” - Deborah Levy Financial Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e78ffdc35da54770b512a00/1585060845660-HYG9IE4YMPJ5XLKDYA8M/BeautifulAnimals3-2.jpg Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e78ffdc35da54770b512a00/1601319030245-6LWBAJDAWHQ8M4TR3RON/Sleep_2.png Books - Only to Sleep Brilliant…Osborne and Marlowe are a perfect match. - William Boyd Only to Sleep is a story about age and regret and murder. About the American Dream. About The Mexican Dream. It's the kind of book where, when you read it, it turns the world to black and white for a half-hour afterward. It leaves you with the taste of rum and blood in your mouth. It hangs with you like a scar. — NPR Nominated for an Edgar Award Best Novel 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e78ffdc35da54770b512a00/1601070151239-QPHQINL7G332DB10P3GX/GlassKingdomPattern.png Books - 100 Notable Books of 2020, The New York Times THE Glass Kingdom “Oozing menace, Osborne’s compelling novel is wonderfully atmospheric and deeply macabre.” - Daily Mail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e78ffdc35da54770b512a00/1601319778163-J1UZWQD3NQTL27MEZI3U/SkeletonFlower-2.png Books In "The Glass Kingdom" there is a symbolic thread of flowers, especially the strangest of all, the Skeleton Flower which turns transparent when touched by rain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e78ffdc35da54770b512a00/1601320559112-WORU2UVC5UAMSY3Q2BNF/Wetandthedry.png Books - THE Wet and the Dry “Mr. Osborne is a superb travel writer, one who, like Evelyn Waugh, can size up a locale at almost a glance. This intoxicating book has political as well as sensual overtones. It’s about how East and West think about alcohol; quite often it’s about one man’s search for his 6:10 p.m. martini in some very unlikely locations.” - Dwight Garner, New York Times https://www.lawrenceosborne.net/interviews daily 0.75 2025-12-31