Quercus: 997 books
The Glorious First of June
Fleet Battle in the Reign of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
France, early summer 1794. The French Revolution has been hijacked by the extreme Jacobins and is in the grip of The Terror. While the guillotine relentlessly takes the heads of innocents, two vast French and British fleets meet in mid-Atlantic after a week of skirmishing.
The French, in ships...
Legions of Rome
The definitive history of every Roman legion
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
No book on Roman history has attempted to do what Stephen Dando-Collins does in Legions of Rome: to provide a complete history of every Imperial Roman legion and what it achieved as a fighting force. The author has spent the last thirty years collecting every scrap of available evidence from numerous...
The Ferry Girls
A heart-warming saga of secrets, friendships and wartime spirit
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
A heartwarming saga of secrets, friendships and wartime spirit at the height of World War 2. For fans of Daisy Styles, Sheila Newberry and Lyn Andrews
A young German girl finds friendship, camaraderie and even love while working on Hampshire's south coast ferries - but will her new friends...
Trouble Ahead
The Battle for Crete
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Heraklion, May 1941. On the north coast of Crete, the British forces are redeploying troops, ahead of a German invasion of the island. A brutal defeat in Greece has forced them to withdraw from the mainland, weakened and dejected.
For Captain Bentley Paine, of the Yorks & Lancs Regiment,...
by David Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Surrounded by evil, how long can one man's good intentions last?
February 1941, Berlin: A murderer is on a killing spree. The Murder Squad is in the midst of the biggest manhunt the city has ever seen.
Georg Heuser is the idealistic, brilliant young detective set to crack the case.
July...
by John Haywood
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Sumeria, c.3500 BC, witnessed the birth of the world's very first city by the rich and fertile banks of the Uruk. Over the next four millennia, the social and cultural landscape would change beyond recognition as many of history's most important kingdoms and cities took root.
Interweaving Mesopotamian,...
Gautama Buddha
The Life and Teachings of The Awakened One
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
There are many accounts of the Buddha's life that mix legend and history. This compelling new biography discriminates between fact and fiction to reveal Gautama, the remarkable human being behind the legends, and shed new light on his teachings.
Plunging us into the noise, smells and jostling...
Emperors of Rome
The Story of Imperial Rome from Julius Caesar to the Last Emperor
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
The Emperors of Rome charts the rise and fall of the Roman Empire through profiles of the greatest and most notorious of the emperors, from the autocratic Augustus to the feeble Claudius, the vicious Nero to the beneficent Marcus Aurelius, through to the maniac Commodus and beyond. Interwoven with...
Operation Suicide
The Remarkable Story of the Cockleshell Raid
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
At nightfall on December 7 1942, twelve British canoeists arrived by submarine off the coast of France, tasked with infiltrating the dockyards of Bordeaux, and wreaking havoc with the German shipping they found there.
Manning fragile 'cockles' through the turbulent waters of the Bay of Biscay,...
Battle of Britain
A day-to-day chronicle, 10 July-31 October 1940
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Battle of Britain is a riveting chronicle of the epic struggle between the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe. It is the story of Britain's fight for national survival, from the shock defeat and evacuation from Dunkirk in May/June 1940 to fighter Command's assertion of superiority over the Luftwaffe...
The Plantagenets
The Kings That Made Britain
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
England, 1154. As Henry II seizes the throne after years of turmoil, a new dynasty is poised to haul this hitherto turbulent nation out from the Dark Ages and transform it into the nation state we recognize today. Featuring some of England's greatest but also most notorious kings, the house of Plantagenet...
by Ken Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
An astonishing true story of mountaineering survival
On 5 January 2003, former Special Forces soldier Ken Jones was caught in a devastating avalanche as he climbed in the frozen wilderness of Romania's Transylvanian Alps. Flung from a cliff, he regained consciousness to find himself shrouded...
by Peter May
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Since the publication of The Blackhouse in 2011, the books of Peter May's groundbreaking Lewis Trilogy have enthralled millions of readers around the world with powerfully evocative descriptions of the Outer Hebrides.
From its peat bogs and heather-coated hills, from its weather-beaten churches...
by Eleanor Moran
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
When Olivia Berrington gets the call to tell her that her best friend from university has been killed in a car crash in New York, her life is turned upside down. Her relationship with Sally was an exhilarating roller coaster, until a shocking betrayal drove them apart. But if Sally really had turned...