Scottish author who sparked a bidding war with his forthcoming debut novel Natural Causes after it became a self-published phenomenon.

Based in Fife on his farm, where he juggles writing with sheep and cow rearing, Oswald is Penguin's biggest new name in crime fiction this year. Natural Causes is published tomorrow (May 9).

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