‘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 Doughty

Bird 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.’

‘A rare combination of elegance and unbelievable tension. . . Utterly brilliant.’ JOANNA CANNON
‘A terrific read.’ Daily Mail
‘Louise Doughty leads her unnerved readers into dark territory.’ HILARY MANTEL
‘Gripping.’ Marie Claire
‘Clever, twisty, propulsive.’ CLAIRE FULLER
‘Doughty is a brilliant storyteller who knows how to build suspense to breaking point.’ The Times

The latest from the Number One Sunday Times Bestselling author Louise Doughty

Bird 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, and one she’s prepared for – but nothing could prepare her for what will happen next. As she flees north using multiple disguises, Bird has to work out who exactly is on her trail, and who – if anyone – she can trust. Like many people, she has fantasised about escape for a long time, but now it’s actually happening. 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

‘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 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’

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, 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.

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 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.