Beautiful Animals
A Novel

The rich, they say, are just like you and me. The only difference is, they’re richer. Naomi Codrington puts that theory to the test in this sinister thriller by Lawrence Osborne. Naomi is visiting her father and wicked stepmother on the Greek Island of Hydra after being fired from her job at a Briti......more

This, the third of Lawrence Osborne's books that I've read, is suffused with the same air of menace as the other two. He has a knack for creating situations in which people out of their depth find themselves embroiled in scenarios that spin wildly out of control, often taking sometimes innocent peop......more

Olyan, mintha inkább példázat lenne, mint regény. A pusztuló Nyugat metaforája. Ebben a kontextusban a tündéri görög sziget, Ídra a Paradicsomot jelképezi, amivel mégsem tudnak mit kezdeni azok, akik be kívánják lakni – idegenek, bitorlók maradnak benne. A Codrington- és a Haldane-szülők a múlt birt......more