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 , Paris Dreambook and The Wet and the Dry . His short story 'Volcano' was selected for Best American Short Stories 2012 . The Forgiven is currently being filmed in Morocco, starring Ralph Fiennes, Matt Smith and Jessica Chastain, and is due for release in 2021; Hunters in the Dark will shoot in Cambodia in 2021 with Aneurin Barnard, Adam Pettyfer and Tzi Ma; and Beautiful Animals is now in production with Amazon. Osborne lives in Bangkok. www.lawrenceosborne.net.