Platform Seven

Doughty, Louise
Louise Doughty is the author of nine novels, including Platform Seven, Black Water, Apple Tree Yard, which was a top 10 bestseller in UK and Ireland and shortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger Award and the National Book Awards Thriller of the Year, and Whatever You Love, which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She has also won awards for radio drama and short stories, along with publishing one work of non-fiction, A Novel in a Year, based on her hugely popular newspaper column. She is a critic and cultural commentator for UK and international newspapers and broadcasts regularly for the BBC. She is a former judge of the Man Booker Prize and the Costa Novel Prize and was Chair of Judges for the Desmond Elliot Award., Black Water is Louise Doughty's eighth novel. Her most recent book was the bestseller Apple Tree Yard, which sold in twenty-six countries, was shortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger and the NationalBook Awards Thriller of the Year and was a Richard and Judy Book Club choice. A major four-part BBC One adaptation is due to be broadcast in 2016. Her sixth book, Whatever You Love, was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She lives in London., Louise Doughty is the author of nine novels. Her most recent is Platform Seven (2019). The previous book, Black Water, (2016) was nominated as one of the New York Times Notable Books of the Year and the book before that was the bestseller Apple Tree Yard (2013), which has been published or is being translated into thirty languages and adapted into a highly successful television series starring Emily Watson.