Louise Doughty

*PAPERBACK NOW AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER* 'Louise Doughty leads her unnerved readers into dark territory.' Hilary Mantel. 'Utterly mesmerizing, with the pace of a thriller and a sense of profound mystery in the most ordinary of settings. I was hooked from its start to its nerve-racking, surprising finish.' Deborah Moggach The new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Louise Doughty 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..

Platform Seven

The bestselling psychological thriller from Louise Doughty 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. Shortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger for Best Thriller and the Specsavers National Book Awards Crime & Thriller of the Year

Apple Tree Yard

From the author of Apple Tree Yard comes a masterful thriller about espionage, love, and redemption. John Harper is in hiding in a remote hut on a tropical island. As he lies awake at night, listening to the rain on the roof, he believes his life may be in danger. But he is less afraid of what is going to happen than of what he’s already done. In a nearby town, he meets Rita, a woman with her own tragic history. They begin an affair, but can they offer each other redemption? Or do the ghosts of the past always catch up with us in the end? Flashing back from late 1990s Indonesia to Cold War Europe, Harper’s childhood in civil rights-era California, and Indonesia during the massacres of 1965 and the subsequent military dictatorship, Black Water explores some of the darkest events of recent history through the story of one troubled man. In this gripping follow-up to Apple Tree Yard, Louise Doughty writes with the intelligence, vivid characterization, and moral ambiguity that make her fiction resonate in the reader’s mind long after the final page.

A Novel

Black Water

From the author of the bestselling Apple Tree Yard comes a riveting thriller of a woman on the run from both sinister pursuers and the ghosts of her past.

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?

A Bird in Winter

Kvinna inför rätta

A Novel in a Year

Ny tankeväckande roman av författaren till "Kvinna inför rätta". Även denna gång utforskar Louise Doughty människans psyke och själens mörka vrår. Klockan är fyra en kall novembermorgon och järnvägsstationen ligger så gott som öde. Vid spår sju, längst bort på perrongen syns en man. Han sitter på en bänk och väntar helt stilla. När ljudet av ett annalkande godståg hörs ställer han sig upp. Beslutsamt, nästan mekaniskt, går han fram till kanten ... För ett och ett halvt år sedan var det Lisa, 36 år och lärare i engelska, som tog steget mot döden just här. Nu går hon igen och när hon börjar berätta rullas en gastkramande historia upp.

Spår 7

"I study the photo in the same way that a spy might study the face of a counterpart in a rival organization. I am calm as I make this promise: I am going to find out what you love, then whatever it is, I am going to track it down and I am going to take it away from you." After the death of Laura's nine-year-old daughter, Betty, is ruled an accident in a hit-and-run, Laura decides to take revenge into her own hands, determined to track down the man responsible. All the while, her inner turmoil is reopening the old wounds of her passionate love affair with Betty's father, David, and his abandonment of the family for another woman. Haunted by her past and driven to a breaking point by her thirst for retribution, Laura discovers the unforeseen lengths she is willing to go to for love and vengeance.

Whatever You Love

Uma paixão avassaladora, movida por uma atração sexual inexplicável. Esses são os ingredientes da trama de adultério, crime e suspense tecida pela britânica Louise Doughty em Uma escolha imperfeita. Escritora respeitada, com seis títulos na bagagem, e jornalista responsável por uma coluna feminina de muito sucesso, Doughty explora, com maestria, os dilemas morais da mulher contemporânea e mostra que até a mais racional delas pode se desestabilizar ao viver um caso extraconjugal. É o que acontece com Yvonne Carmichael, uma competente geneticista de 52 anos, que vê sua vida ao lado do marido desmoronar depois de se envolver com um misterioso homem. Com tórridas cenas de sexo e um suspense de tirar o fôlego, Uma escolha imperfeita é um livro surpreendente sobre como uma decisão impensada pode mudar o curso de uma vida para sempre.

Uma escolha imperfeita

Two police officers knock on Laura's door. They tell her that her nine-year old daughter Betty has been hit by a car and killed. When justice is slow, Laura decides to take her own revenge and begins to track down the man responsible. Laura's grief reopens 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 desertion of her for another woman.Haunted by her past and driven by her need to discover the truth, Laura discovers just how far she is prepared to go for love, desire and retribution. Whatever You Love is a heart-wrenching and compulsive story from an acclaimed novelist writing at the height of her powers.

'Elijah Smith was born in the graveyard of the church at Werrington, a village in the Soke of Peterborough. I can tell you this for certain, as I am his mother and so was there at the time.' Clementina is barely sixteen when she falls pregnant. Other girls had been put out on the highroad for less, but Clementina's Dei and Dadus stand by her. But the Travellers are treated with suspicion wherever they go, and soon the family are rounded up by the 'gavvers', accused of poisioning local livestock. As the Romany people struggle to survive the changes of the twentieth century, Louise Doughty charts one family's path through persecution and tragedy, asking, can the Romany spirit survive in a century that no longer has space for them?

Stone Cradle

When Peter, Bet Walker's boyfriend of three weeks, suddenly dies in a car crash, she is surprised to find out that he has altered his will to leave a considerable fortune to her.

Dance with Me

Eine Anleitung in 52 Kapiteln

Ein Roman in einem Jahr

Fires In the Dark reveals the highly secretive and misunderstood world of the coppersmith gypsies. In 1927, when prosperity still reigns in Central Europe, Yenko is born to two Coppersmith Gypsies. His parents, Josef and Anna, are nomads who raise their son during the relative calm of the Great Depression of the 1930s. Soon, though, dangerous times threaten to unsettle their family, as their heritage makes them vulnerable targets for ethnic cleansing. As Germany invades Czechoslovakia and the conflicts of World War II begin to unfold, Yenko and his parents become fugitives, forced on a journey that promises only great uncertainty and offers survival as a remote possibility. In the course of their flight, the burden of an ancient tradition rests entirely on Yenko's shoulders. In capturing the desperation and perseverance of one family during an extraordinary time in history, Louise Doughty pays powerful homage to an insular and little-known culture.

Fires in the Dark

Soon To Be a STARZ Mini-Series, Starring Emily Watson Yvonne Carmichael sits in the witness box. The charge is murder. Before all of this, she was happily married, a successful scientist, a mother of two. Now she is a suspect, squirming under florescent lights and the penetrating gaze of the alleged accomplice who is sitting across from her, watching: a man who is also her lover. As Yvonne faces hostile questioning, she must piece together the story of her affair with this unnamed figure who has charmed and haunted her. It is a tale of sexual intrigue and ruthless urges—and of danger, which has blindsided her from a seemingly innocuous angle. Here, in the courtroom, everything hinges on one night in a dark alley called Apple Tree Yard. Shot through with suspense and masterfully paced, Louise Doughty's novel is "a must read . . . if you liked The Silent Wife, you'll fall hard for Apple Tree Yard" (AARP).

Longlisted for the Orange Prize and Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award, Louise Doughty’s hauntingly beautiful investigation of love, loss, and revenge is a literary page-turner that will linger in your mind far after the cover closes. When a hit-and-run car crash claims Laura’s daughter Betty, her life is turned upside down. But when the courts rule the death an accident, the lines dividing justice from punishment will blur as Laura embarks on her own quest for vengeance. Sure to captivate fans of Antoinette van Heugten and Sophie Hannah, as well as readers of Doughty’s previous books Fires in the Dark and A Novel in a Year, among others, Whatever You Love is a poignant psychological story in which life’s greatest questions hang in the balance.

Sitting in a courtroom after being charged with murder, a geneticist and happily married mother of two reflects on her affair with a secret lover who claimed a connection to the British government and who seduced her with an irresistible combination of sexual power, justice and revenge. By the award-nominated author of Whatever You Love. 50,000 first printing.

Príbeh o nevere s nedozernými následkami Genetička Yvonne Carmichaelová má všetko – skvelú kariéru aj skvelé manželstvo. Jedného dňa však stretne tajomného muža, do ktorého sa vášnivo zamiluje a je ochotná urobiť preňho čokoľvek vrátane sexu na verejnosti v bočnej uličke Apple Tree Yard. Je naivne presvedčená, že obidva svoje životy dokáže udržať striktne oddelené. Netuší, že práve spustila lavínu, ktorá jej šťastie rozbije na prach, prevráti jej celý život a napokon ju privedie na lavicu obžalovaných pre obvinenie z vraždy. Skvelý príbeh... Naozaj som sa nemohla dočkať, ako to dopadne. A to naozaj nehovorím často. - Julia Myersonová Doughty je úžasná rozprávačka, ktorá vie udržať napätie až do konca. - Katie Saundersová, The Times Ak raz začnete, nedokážete prestať. Naozaj desivé. - Helen Dunmoreová Skvelé a drsné. Posadnutosť, zrada a krv... - Ian Rankin Uvedomila som si, že posledných štyridsať strán som zhltla bez dychu. Napínavé. - Val McDermidová Luise Doughty Narodila sa v Melton Mowbray a vyrástla v Rutlande. Vyštudovala univerzitu v Leeds a neskôr navštevovala rôzne kurzy tvorivého písania pod vedením Malcolma Bradburyho a Angely Carterovej. V súčasnosti žije v Londýne. Píše veľmi populárny stĺpček v The Daily Telegraph a tiež rozhlasové hry. Ako kultúrna kritička a komentátorka pracuje pre rôzne britské aj zahraničné noviny a pravidelne sa objavuje v rozhlasovom vysielaní o literatúre. V roku 2008 bola súčasťou poroty Man Booker Prize. Napísala sedem románov, ktoré získali viacero ocenení a boli vydané v 21 krajinách sveta. Najväčší úspech zaznamenala kniha Ulička Apple Tree Yard (Apple Tree Yard, 2013), ktorá bola nominovaná na cenu Iana Fleminga za najlepší triler roka, The Guardian ju vyhlásil knihou roka a britskí kníhkupci ju zaradili do desiatky najlepších románov.

Ulička Apple Tree Yard

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 English Country Counties.

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