Books by Louise Doughty

Apple Tree Yard: From the writer of BBC smash hit drama 'Crossfire'

by Louise Doughty (Faber & Faber)

(18,642 reviews)

**A BIRD IN WINTER - THE NEW NOVEL FROM LOUISE DOUGHTY - AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW** THE GRIPPING NOVEL BY LOUISE DOUGHTY, PLATFORM SEVEN, IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR ITV SERIES THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER, WITH OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD Shortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger for Best Thriller and the Specsavers National Book Awards Crime & Thriller of the Year Yvonne Carmichael has a... See More

Length: 358 Pages (1,509 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Whatever You Love

by Louise Doughty (Faber & Faber)

(2,614 reviews)

**A BIRD IN WINTER - THE GRIPPING NEW NOVEL FROM LOUISE DOUGHTY - AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW** FROM THE WRITER OF BBC SMASH HIT DRAMA CROSSFIRE SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD LONGLISTED FOT THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2011 Whatever 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... See More

Length: 320 Pages (1,460 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Fires in the Dark

by Louise Doughty (Faber & Faber)

(491 reviews)

**A BIRD IN WINTER - THE GRIPPING NEW NOVEL FROM LOUISE DOUGHTY - AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW** FROM THE WRITER OF BBC SMASH HIT DRAMA CROSSFIRE 'An epic novel... absorbing, shocking, hopeful.' Mail on Sunday _________ Fires in the Dark a breathtaking novel of grand scope which also sheds new light on the Holocaust and its Roma victims. Yenko is born in 1920s Bohemia to a nomadic Roma family... See More

Length: 508 Pages (1,871 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Stone Cradle

by Louise Doughty (Faber & Faber)

(588 reviews)

**A BIRD IN WINTER - THE GRIPPING NEW NOVEL FROM LOUISE DOUGHTY - AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW** FROM THE WRITER OF BBC SMASH HIT DRAMA CROSSFIRE Captivating and beautifully written.' Mirror From the bestselling author of Apple Tree Yard comes this story of three generations of one Romany family in England, as they face family life, love and marriage along with the changes and upheavals for... See More

Length: 384 Pages (1,474 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Black Water

by Louise Doughty (Faber & Faber)

(1,159 review)

**A BIRD IN WINTER - THE GRIPPING NEW NOVEL FROM LOUISE DOUGHTY - AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW** FROM THE WRITER OF BBC SMASH HIT DRAMA CROSSFIRE John 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... See More

Length: 353 Pages (1,779 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

A Bird in Winter: 'Nail-bitingly tense and compelling' Paula Hawkins

by Louise Doughty (Faber & Faber)

(1,243 review)

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 Claire The latest from the Number One Sunday Times Bestselling author Louise... See More

Length: 341 Pages (1,734 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Platform Seven: From the writer of BBC smash hit drama 'Crossfire'

by Louise Doughty (Faber & Faber)

(2,629 reviews)

AS SEEN ON ITVX OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES OF APPLE TREE YARD SOLD 'The perfect thriller.' Stylist 'Scarily plausible... desperately moving.' Guardian 'Gripping.' Good Housekeeping The 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... See More

Length: 414 Pages (1,488 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Honey-Dew: A stunning crime novel from the author of Apple Tree Yard

by Louise Doughty (Simon & Schuster UK)

(495 reviews)

A brutal murder punctures the tranquillity of a rural idyll: a middle-aged couple are found stabbed to death; their teenaged daughter is missing. Where is Gemma? Demands the headline of the Rutland Record. Alison, chief reporter, endeavours to unravel the truth and in doing so must confront the shadows of her own, shocking past and the bleakness at the heart of the prettiest of the prettiest of... See More

Length: 193 Pages (262 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Dance With Me: Brilliant psychological suspense from the author of Apple Tree Yard

by Louise Doughty (Simon & Schuster UK)

(489 reviews)

A man dies a week after re-writing his will. In it, he has left everything he owns to a woman he has known for only three weeks. As Bet investigates Peter's past, she 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 and... See More

Length: 257 Pages (336 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Crazy Paving: Brilliant psychological suspense from the author of Apple Tree Yard

by Louise Doughty (Simon & Schuster UK)

(488 reviews)

Brilliant psychological suspense from the author of APPLE TREE YARD, now a major BBC drama. Against a rising tide of commuter mayhem, three women struggle in to work. Caught up in the chaos on the streets - and in the equally savage battle surrounding their boss's extortion racket - Annette, Joan and Helly are forced to ditch everything for an offensive of their own, only to find the cruellest... See More

Length: 401 Pages (473 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

A Novel in a Year: A Novelist's Guide to Being a Novelist

by Louise Doughty

(64 reviews)

'The art of writing,' Kingsley Amis said, 'is the art of applying the seat of one's trousers to the seat of one's chair.' So start now. Take up a notebook and pen, and write one sentence... 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... See More

Length: 274 Pages (401 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

Terminus: A Story from the collection, I Am Heathcliff

by Louise Doughty (The Borough Press)

A short from Louise Doughty to stir the heart and awaken vital conversations about love. A young woman turns off her phone and books herself into a deserted seaside hotel. In a state of shock, she starts small conversations with the staff and begins to unfurl, until someone turns up to claim her. See More

Length: (538 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled