The British TV presenter and hugely successful crime author doesn’t care if literary critics turn their noses up at his newfound commercial success.
became the fastest-selling UK crime debut novel of all time, selling an astonishing 1 million copies in Britain. Over the next 24 months Osman followed up with two more Thursday Murder Club novels. sold over 114,000 copies in its first three days, making it one of the fastest-selling novels since records began in commercial fiction, while became the fastest-selling adult fiction hardback by a British author ever, beating the figure previously set by J. K.
. It’s so beautiful and it sold recently for something like 7 million pounds. It’s an example of something that is beautifully mainstream but also incredible.I would love to solve what is up with my knees. Because they aint working! Osman was born in 1970, in Billericay, Essex, England, and grew up near Haywards Heath, near West Sussex. “To the very depths of my soul, I’m so remorselessly British, I cannot help it,” he says almost apologetically.His father, David, walked out on the family home when he was a small boy, and Osman subsequently became very close to his grandfather, a police officer in Brighton, who would regale him with tales about various criminals he met at his job.
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