The Girl on the Train author Paula Hawkins

The Girl on the Train author Paula Hawkins on The Blue Hour

Paula Hawkins's atmospheric and gripping storytelling took the world by storm in her 2015 debut, The Girl on the Train, which sold over 23 million copies and was adapted into a film starring Emily Blunt.

She will visit the bookshop for a special publication day event to discuss her latest impressive thriller, The Blue Hour, set on a remote Scottish isle.

Eris, an island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out. Unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day.

Once home to Vanessa. A famous artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared twenty years ago.

Now home to Grace. A solitary creature of the tides, content in her own isolation.

But when a shocking discovery is made in an art gallery far away in London, a visitor comes calling.

And the secrets of Eris threaten to emerge . . .

Paula Hawkins worked as a journalist for fifteen years before writing her first novel. Born and brought up in Zimbabwe, she moved to London in 1989. Her first thriller, The Girl on the Train, has sold more than 23 million copies worldwide. Published in over fifty languages, it has been a No.1 bestseller around the world and was a box-office-hit film starring Emily Blunt.

Paula's thrillers Into the Water and A Slow Fire Burning were also instant No.1 bestsellers.