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THE GRIPPING NOVEL BY LOUISE DOUGHTY, PLATFORM SEVEN, IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR ITV SERIESTHE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER, WITH OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLDShortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger for Best Thriller and the Specsavers National Book Awards Crime & Thriller of the YearYvonne Carmichael has a high-flying career, a beautiful home and a good marriage.But when she meets a stranger she is drawn into a passionate affair.Keeping the two halves of her life separate seems easy at first.But she can't control what happens next.

FROM THE WRITER OF BBC SMASH HIT DRAMA CROSSFIREJohn Harper lies awake at night in an isolated hut on an Indonesian island, listening to the rain on the roof and believing his life may be in danger. But he is less afraid of what is going to happen than of something he's already done.In a local town, he meets Rita, a woman with her own troubled history. They begin an affair - but can he allow himself to get involved when he knows this might put her at risk?Moving between Europe during the cold war, California and the Civil Rights struggle, and Indonesia during the massacres of 1965 and the decades of military dictatorship that follow, Black Water is an epic novel that explores some of the darkest events of recent world history through the story of one troubled man.Black Water confirms Louise Doughty's position as one of our most important contemporary novelists. She writes with fierce intelligence and a fine-tuned sense of moral ambiguity that makes her fiction resonate in the reader's mind long after the final page has been turned.

FROM THE WRITER OF BBC SMASH HIT DRAMA CROSSFIRESHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARDLONGLISTED FOT THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2011Whatever You Love, from Louise Doughty - the bestselling author of Apple Tree Yard, now a major BBC 1 series - is a heart-wrenching psychological thriller about bereavement and revenge, desire and infidelity.Two police officers knock on Laura's door and her life changes forever. They tell her that her nine-year old daughter Betty has been hit by a car and killed. When justice is slow to arrive, Laura decides to take her own revenge and begins to track down the man responsible. Laura's grief also re-opens old wounds and she is thrown back to the story of her passionate love affair with Betty's father David, their marriage and his subsequent affair with another woman. Haunted by her past, and driven to breaking point by her desire for retribution, Laura discovers the lengths she is willing to go to for love.

AS SEEN ON ITVXOVER HALF A MILLION COPIES OF APPLE TREE YARD SOLD'The perfect thriller.' Stylist'Scarily plausible . . . desperately moving.' Guardian'Gripping.' Good HousekeepingThe novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Platform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. The man crossing the covered walkway on this freezing November morning is confident he's alone. As he sits on the metal bench at the far end of the platform it is clear his choice is strategic - he's as far away from the night staff as he can get.What the man doesn't realise is that he has company. Lisa Evans knows what he has decided. She knows what he is about to do as she tries and fails to stop him walking to the platform edge.Two deaths on Platform Seven. Two fatalities in eighteen months - surely they're connected?No one is more desperate to understand what connects them than Lisa Evans herself. After all, she was the first of the two to die . . .Readers are gripped by Platform Seven:***** 'Had me hooked from the start - a real page turner!'***** 'Brilliant . . . punches you straight in heart.'***** 'Amazing . . . A thriller with a difference!'***** 'The best book I have read in along while'

OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES OF APPLE TREE YARD SOLD'Psychologically acute. Terrific.' Daily Mail'A page-turning read. Kept me reading well past bedtime!' VAL McDERMID 'Pacey and propulsive.' Guardian'A rare combination of elegance and unbelievable tension . . . Utterly brilliant.' Joanna Cannon'Gripping.' Marie ClaireThe latest from the Number One Sunday Times Bestselling author Louise DoughtyBird is a woman on the run. One minute, she's in a meeting in her office in Birmingham - the next, she's walking out on her job, her home, her life. It's a day she thought might come, one she's prepared for. But nothing could prepare her for what will happen next. As Bird tries to work out who exactly is on her trail, she must also decide who - if anyone - she can trust. Is her greatest fear that she will be hunted down, or that she will never be found?Readers are gripped by A Bird in Winter:***** 'Bird is a character who will stay with me for a long time.''***** As good as Apple Tree Yard, it was impossible to put this book down.'***** 'Cleverly plotted and full of thought provoking situations and twists.'***** 'If you like strong female leads that aren't perfect, then you will devour this.'***** 'A beautiful, intricately plotted, and intriguing narrative.'

OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES OF APPLE TREE YARD SOLD'Psychologically acute. Terrific.' Daily Mail'A page-turning read. Kept me reading well past bedtime!' VAL McDERMID 'Pacey and propulsive.' Guardian'A rare combination of elegance and unbelievable tension . . . Utterly brilliant.' Joanna Cannon'Gripping.' Marie ClaireThe latest from the Number One Sunday Times Bestselling author Louise DoughtyBird is a woman on the run. One minute, she's in a meeting in her office in Birmingham - the next, she's walking out on her job, her home, her life. It's a day she thought might come, one she's prepared for. But nothing could prepare her for what will happen next. As Bird tries to work out who exactly is on her trail, she must also decide who - if anyone - she can trust. Is her greatest fear that she will be hunted down, or that she will never be found?Readers are gripped by A Bird in Winter:***** 'Bird is a character who will stay with me for a long time.''***** As good as Apple Tree Yard, it was impossible to put this book down.'***** 'Cleverly plotted and full of thought provoking situations and twists.'***** 'If you like strong female leads that aren't perfect, then you will devour this.'***** 'A beautiful, intricately plotted, and intriguing narrative.'

OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES OF APPLE TREE YARD SOLD'Psychologically acute. Terrific.' Daily Mail'A page-turning read. Kept me reading well past bedtime!' VAL McDERMID 'Pacey and propulsive.' Guardian'A rare combination of elegance and unbelievable tension . . . Utterly brilliant.' Joanna Cannon'Gripping.' Marie ClaireThe latest from the Number One Sunday Times Bestselling author Louise DoughtyBird is a woman on the run. One minute, she's in a meeting in her office in Birmingham - the next, she's walking out on her job, her home, her life. It's a day she thought might come, one she's prepared for. But nothing could prepare her for what will happen next. As Bird tries to work out who exactly is on her trail, she must also decide who - if anyone - she can trust. Is her greatest fear that she will be hunted down, or that she will never be found?Readers are gripped by A Bird in Winter:***** 'Bird is a character who will stay with me for a long time.''***** As good as Apple Tree Yard, it was impossible to put this book down.'***** 'Cleverly plotted and full of thought provoking situations and twists.'***** 'If you like strong female leads that aren't perfect, then you will devour this.'***** 'A beautiful, intricately plotted, and intriguing narrative.'

AS SEEN ON ITVOVER HALF A MILLION COPIES OF APPLE TREE YARD SOLD'The perfect thriller.' Stylist'Scarily plausible . . . desperately moving.' Guardian'Gripping.' Good HousekeepingThe novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Platform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. The man crossing the covered walkway on this freezing November morning is confident he's alone. As he sits on the metal bench at the far end of the platform it is clear his choice is strategic - he's as far away from the night staff as he can get.What the man doesn't realise is that he has company. Lisa Evans knows what he has decided. She knows what he is about to do as she tries and fails to stop him walking to the platform edge.Two deaths on Platform Seven. Two fatalities in eighteen months - surely they're connected?No one is more desperate to understand what connects them than Lisa Evans herself. After all, she was the first of the two to die . . .Readers are gripped by Platform Seven:***** 'Had me hooked from the start - a real page turner!'***** 'Brilliant . . . punches you straight in heart.'***** 'Amazing . . . A thriller with a difference!'***** 'The best book I have read in along while'

It is 1927. Yenko is born in a barn in rural Bohemia to a tribe of Coppersmith Gypsies. Traditional people who survive by plying their skills as they travel throughout Central Europe, they live through the Depression and the rise of Nazism. But the greatest danger comes from the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the German army. Yenko escapes the clutches of the invaders but is forced to adopt many guises in order to survive and rescue his family and his love. If he succeeds he can truly become a Romany man - but in the end who is he? From the rural Gypsy traditions of the inter-war era, through the Nazi invasion, culminating in the drama of the Prague Uprising of May 1945, Louise Doughty has created a breathtaking novel of grand scope.

Can you write a novel in a year?If you simply sit back and think about the enormity of writing a book, it will seem like a vast and unconquerable task, impossibly daunting. The way to make it less daunting is to break it down into its constituent parts, to do it bit by bit. Over the chapters herein, different aspects of technique are divided up into bite size chunks, the better to aid digestion.The book will look at different aspects of writing, with set exercises to help the reader along in their confidence and technique. It is designed to be read a chapter a week, with the aim of the fledgling writer having a body of material at the year's end which should form a solid start to their novel.Deeply practical, with sound advice at every stage, A NOVEL IN A YEAR is essential reading for any would-be novelist.

This is the only love story I am ever likely to write . . .In her first memoir, acclaimed novelist Louise Doughty introduces us to her parents, Ken and Avis, and tells their story in reverse - beginning at the end of their lives and tracing them back over fifty years to uncover the secret origin of their love affair.After her parents' deaths, Louise and her siblings embark upon the extended process of clearing out the East Midlands bungalow where they had grown up. Just before its sale is completed, she stumbles upon a battered black suitcase containing a treasure trove of letters. She discovers how her parents had broken each other's hearts and mended them, and how most of her views about them are wrong.Honest and tender, heartbreaking and funny, this is a story about grief and loss and family, but most of all, it's a story about love. Transporting us to the 1950s to meet two young, working-class people with a mountain to overcome but who are full of hope and spirit, it explores one of life's great mysteries - the lives of our parents before we existed - and the joyful impossibility of unravelling the mysteries of the human heart.

The gripping psychological suspense novel from the bestselling author of APPLE TREE YARD, also a hit BBC series starring Emily Watson A man dies a week after rewriting his will. In it, he has left everything he owns to a woman he has known for only three weeks. Confused with her newfound inheritance, Bet investigates Peter's past and discovers that her ex-lover was not all that he seemed…In a crumbling office block, another woman has a different sort of ghost to confront. Iris runs her own business but strange things keep happening. Her phone rings. Somebody taps at her door. But there's no one there. In the basement of the office, something unpleasant is lurking ...What connects these two women and can they ever escape it?PRAISE FOR LOUISE DOUGHTY:'Dance With Me is a book dotted with vivid observational set pieces, cunningly slotted together...Doughty is a good writer, deft with observational details...This book does dance with you. It holds you, leads you, and twirls you about.' LYNNE TRUSS, SUNDAY TIMES'Louise Doughty writes about people who don't usually get written about...every bit as skilled as her contemporaries, her writing has a pessimistic edge which makes her books all the funnier. Dance With Me is a painfully accurate record of mating rituals and dating nightmares' INDEPENDENT‘A thriller, a bit of a ghost story, and a love story. It has pace, style, mystery, excitement’ EVENING STANDARD

The gripping psychological suspense novel from the bestselling author of APPLE TREE YARD, also a hit BBC series starring Emily Watson The last thing anyone would expect in a small, rural village is murder - let alone the horrific double murder of a respectable middle-aged local couple. During one of the hottest summers England has ever seen, the two are brutally stabbed to death. Their teenage daughter goes missing and the close-knit village is suddenly under a harsh spotlight of suspicion. As Alison, a young local reporter, digs deeper into the double murder, the case begins to unsettle her in ways she can't explain. But it isn't long before it emerges that she has one or two dark secrets of her own - secrets in her past even she is not aware of…Tense, atmospheric, and psychologically charged, HONEY-DEW is a crime thriller about a perfect community with a very imperfect truth. PRAISE FOR LOUISE DOUGHTY:'Darkly comic and disturbing' INDEPENDENT'In this clever, dark novel, nothing is what it seems ... the characterisation is so convincing that it makes one look at one's own neighbours rather nervously' THE EXPRESS ON SUNDAY 'This novel turns the traditional English murder story inside out and squeezes it until it squeaks; a wonderful satire' THE BOOKSELLER'Superbly readable...highly literate and beautifully put together' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

The gripping psychological suspense novel from the bestselling author of APPLE TREE YARD, also a hit BBC series starring Emily Watson SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN LLEWELYN RHYS PRIZE Annette, Joan, and Helly have little in common beyond the drudgery of their London office job - and the man who runs it. Their boss is charming when he needs to be, but beneath the surface lies something far more dangerous: manipulation, corruption, and a quiet threat that none of them can escape.As bomb scares rattle the city and daily life begins to fracture, the pressure inside the office mounts. Small compromises turn large. Loyalties shift. And when the women find themselves drawn into their boss’s increasingly sinister schemes, the line between victim and accomplice - employer and employee - begins to blur.Darkly funny, unsettling, and sharply observed, Crazy Paving is a story of three women who are forced to ditch everything for an offensive of their own, only to find the cruellest circumstances can make heroines of us all…Like most offices, theirs is full of intrigue, sexual desire and blackmail - and everybody thinks it is somebody else's turn to make the coffee.PRAISE FOR LOUISE DOUGHTY:'Few first novels are as confident and accomplished as Louise Doughty's darkly funny debut...often touching, always incisive, and moves along at a spanking pace' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Attention to comic detail reminiscent of Margaret Atwood...brave, haunting and hilarious' TIME OUT'Fresh, original, funny and sad...' DEBORAH MOGGACH'Wonderfully witty, and filled with lively and convincing dialogue and vibrant characters - a black comedy for our times' MALCOLM BRADBURY

From the author of APPLE TREE YARD, now a major BBC drama starring Emily WatsonIt is 1927. Yenko is born in a barn in rural Bohemia to a tribe of Coppersmith Gypsies. Traditional people who survive by plying their skills as they travel throughout Central Europe, they live through the Depression and the rise of Nazism. But the greatest danger comes from the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the German army. Yenko escapes the clutches of the invaders but is forced to adopt many guises in order to survive and rescue his family and his love. If he succeeds he can truly become a Romany man - but in the end who is he?From the rural Gypsy traditions of the inter-war era, through the Nazi invasion, culminating in the drama of the Prague Uprising of May 1945, Louise Doughty has created a breathtaking novel of grand scope.