Children of Wolves

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), The Glass Kingdom and On Java Road . 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 film of The Forgiven , starring Ralph Fiennes, Matt Smith and Jessica Chastain was released in 2022. The Ballad of a Small Player , starring Tilda Swinton and Colin Farrell, is due to be released in autumn 2025. Osborne lives in Bangkok.

About the author

Lawrence Osborne is a critically acclaimed novelist, journalist, and screenwriter based in Bangkok. He is the author of eight novels, including Ballad of a Small Player, Beautiful Animals, and The Forgiven. His non-fiction ranges from memoir through travelogue to essays, including Bangkok Days, The Naked Tourist and The Wet and the Dry. His novels have been chosen as Books of the Year by the Guardian, the Observer, the Daily Telegraph, the New Statesman, the Daily Mail, The Economist, The New Yorker and the New York Times. The Forgiven was made into a film in 2022 starring Jessica Chastain and Ralph Fiennes and Ballad of a Small Player starring Colin Farrell and Tilda Swinton was released on Netflix in 2025.

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence Osborne, Osborne Lawrence
• Publisher: Chatto and Windus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 06.08.2026
• EAN: 9781784746254
• ISBN: 978-1-78474-625-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, FICTION / Literary, Egypt, Greece, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Türkiye / Turkey