Lawrence Osborne Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/lawrence-osborne/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Thu, 03 Nov 2022 21:56:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Lawrence Osborne Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/lawrence-osborne/ 32 32 38398750 October Reading https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/11/october-reading/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/11/october-reading/#comments Fri, 04 Nov 2022 07:56:23 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17042 October has come and gone and my book reviewing has not rallied as I hoped it would. I’m still reading, but still finding it hard to corral my thoughts. I’m not sure where this is headed, but thanks for sticking with me. If you need more reading ideas I am still co-hosting a podcast—somehow talking […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/11/october-reading/feed/ 4 17042 Beautiful Animals: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/07/beautiful-animals-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/07/beautiful-animals-a-novel/#comments Wed, 19 Jul 2017 07:52:33 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=9080   But things settled down and flowed on, because it was the law of summers among the rich that the season of leisure should flow like a large and charming river. The imperative was to have a good time and float on the luminescent surface. Meet Naomi, a bored, twenty-three-year-old Brit vacationing on the beautiful Greek […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/07/beautiful-animals-a-novel/feed/ 3 9080 Hunters in the Dark https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/01/hunters-in-the-dark/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/01/hunters-in-the-dark/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2016 08:34:21 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=5748   Lawrence Osborne was a travel journalist and currently lives in Bangkok, but his latest novel Hunters in the Dark is not one that will inspire readers to head to Southeast Asia. Instead, it has a Heart of Darkness feel—where the language spoken by the natives is not one that can ever be learned by foreigners and […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/01/hunters-in-the-dark/feed/ 2 5748 The Ballad of a Small Player https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/03/ballad-of-a-small-player/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/03/ballad-of-a-small-player/#respond Mon, 31 Mar 2014 07:21:04 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=2687 Lawrence Osborne is a travel journalist in addition to writing fiction, which may be why I read his novels so slowly. His words describe far-off places in a way that makes them appear before my eyes. His novel The Forgiven was one of my favorites in 2012 and now he is back with his latest, […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/03/ballad-of-a-small-player/feed/ 0 2687 The Forgiven https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2012/09/the-forgiven/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2012/09/the-forgiven/#comments Mon, 24 Sep 2012 07:16:06 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=657 The suburbs of Tangiers were ruined, but the gardens were still there. And so were the crippled lemon trees and olives, the dogged disillusion and empty factories, the smell of seething young men. A sybaritic weekend in the Saharan desert of Morocco, at a fantastically renovated fortress compound. Richard and Dally have invited friends from […]

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