Louise, a former teacher at the Faber Academy, and Bev will discuss how to write suspense in this incredibly versatile genre which dominates the bestseller lists and creeps onto our television screens.īooks will be on sale and the event will be followed by a book signing. She has been nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Costa Novel Award.īev Thomas was a clinical psychologist in the NHS and now works as an organisational consultant in mental health services. Her Top Ten bestseller Apple Tree Yard sold over half a million copies in the UK alone and was adapted for BBC as a four-part series starring Emily Watson. Platform Seven is Louise Doughty's ninth novel. The acclaimed author of Apple Tree Yard and a highly-anticipated debut novelist discuss the art of writing intelligent, psychological thrillers.

THANKS FOR YOUR ENTRIES! WINNERS WILL BE CONTACTED BY EMAIL AND ANNOUNCED IN OUR NEWSLETTER.Fiction: How to Write the Perfect Crime Chaired by Jake Kerridge Monday 7th October 2019, 7-8pm Robert Graves Gallery £12.50 Funny, serious, whatever you want – and our three favourite train stories will win a copy!Įntries close midday Monday 17 February, Sydney/Melbourne time. So, if you’d like to win yourself one of the three copies, simply tell us something unique that has happened to you at either at a train station or on a train (hopefully it’s not dying!). Whoa – bam! That’s a killer blow (pardon the pun) right there to round off the synopsis. After all, she was the first of the two to die… Lisa is a ghostly figure who lost her life just under 2 years ago on the tracks of 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. She knows what he is about to do as she tries and fails to stop him walking to the platform edge. What the man doesn't realise is that he has company. 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. Her name is Lisa, she was a 36-year-old local English teacher and she also died on Platform Seven, just 18 months ago. The man crossing the covered walkway on this freezing November morning is confident he's alone. Platform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. The novel is called Platform Seven and it goes a little something like this… The new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Louise Doughty Platform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. This week’s giveaway is a powerful new thriller from bestselling author of Apple Tree Yard, Louise Doughty. Two fatalities in eighteen months – surely they're connected?…”

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