Mat Osman: The Fickle Friend of Fortune
A founding member of Suede and the brother of chart-topping crime fiction sensation Richard Osman, Mat Osman visits Edinburgh to discuss his hugely exciting second book The Ghost Theatre. A dazzling punk re-imagining of Elizabethan London, this historical novel tells its gripping story through the eyes of a clairvoyant, bird-worshipping protagonist and her unlikely theatre troupe. In conversation with Rodge Glass.
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