Books by Louise Doughty

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.

When the Cowpers, a respectable, middle-aged couple are found murdered in a quiet English village and their teenage daughter disappears, local newspaper reporter Alison decides to investigate, and unveils the hidden truths behind the picture-perfect village. Reprint.

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.

An accessible guide to writing a first novel in a year's time is presented in a series of fifty-two chapters that introduce aspiring authors to a range of writing techniques, in a reference that includes such sample exercises as writing a paragraph from the perspective of an inanimate object and creating character backgrounds. Original. 50,000 first printing.

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.