Quercus: 997 books
by Moheb Costandi
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Neuroscience is one of the most fascinating and complex areas of scientific research, with new advances being made every day. In 50 Human Brain Ideas You Really Need to Know, Mo Costandi condenses all we know about the brain and how it works into series of introductions to the most important concepts.
Outlining...
by Joanne Baker
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
For millennia humanity has gazed in wonder at the night sky, tracked the motions of the planets and attempted to explain our place in the Universe. But only in our own time has the true scale, the astonishing variety and the remarkable strangeness of the cosmos come clearly into focus.
The...
by Ben Dupre
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
50 Big Ideas You Really Need to Know is a concise, accessible and popular guide to the central tenets of Western thought. Every important principle of philosophy, religion, politics, economics, the arts and the sciences is profiled in a series of short illustrated essays, complemented by an informative array of timelines and box features.
by Otto de Kat
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
One summer's afternoon in 1981, a factory owner, Christiaan Dudok, is found dead in his study having taken his own life. He has left no suicide note, but on his desk is a newspaper from 2 April 1942, reporting on the bombing of the north German town of Lübeck. The list of the dead includes the highlighted...
by Elizabeth Gill
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
A tragic and moving rural saga Shelter from the Storm is a powerfully resonant novel about the consequences of early trauma and the harsh reality of life in a bygone age.
After a deeply harrowing incident at the hands of mysterious stranger, a woman gives birth to a child and is persuaded by her husband...
by Walton Golightly
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Shaka, king of the Zulus, has brutally consolidated his power, and is ready to move against those who continue to resist his authority.
But now a new tribe has emerged: white men from across the Great Water, claiming they wish to trade with Shaka.
As the king grows increasingly obsessed with...
by Walton Golightly
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
King Shaka has survived an assassination attempt. Important trade routes have been secured. Yet all is far from calm in the Zulu Empire...
The bulk of Shaka's army toils in the diseased swamps of Mozambique; the white men at Port Natal have begun disobeying his laws; and enemy tribes are slowly...
Meet Me Under the Mistletoe
The unputdownable gorgeous festive love story
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
'A warm and charming winter treat, sparkling with wit and the feel-good factor' Miranda Dickinson. The perfect rom-com for fans of THE HOLIDAY.
Will a Christmas house swap save a struggling relationship?
Childhood friends Laurie and Rachel used to be inseparable - but their lives have...
A Fireside Dream
A Sparkling Christmas Read For Cold Winter Nights
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Amelia Grey has a dream: toasting chestnuts by the fire with her husband Jack in their very own cosy cottage.
Their real life is another world - a cramped one-bedroom flat in Hackney. But when life takes a surprising turn, removal vans are soon heading to the Kent countryside.
They soon...
The Hit
A gripping, gritty thriller that will have you hooked from the first page! Rosie Gilmour 9
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Rosie Gilmour is hot on the trail of a ring of baby-sellers and people-traffickers. The problem is, her main suspect is a dead man. Or is he?
A money-laundering accountant disappears in Romania. The hitman hired to disappear him is found dead in a Glasgow flat. And the owner of the flat, the...
Blood Feud
The gripping, gritty gangster thriller that everybody's talking about!
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
'MARTINA COLE FANS WILL LOVE THIS FAST-PACED THRILLER' SUNDAY MIRROR
They came for her family. Now she's coming for them. This nail-biting thriller introduces Glasgow's newest gangland mistress, Kerry Casey.
Kerry Casey thought she'd made a life away from the dirty dealings of her gangster...
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
What do the rich and famous really get up to behind closed doors? When does sexual passion become sordid perversion? Who are history's most shocking deviants and what are their sex secrets? The pages of this book reveal 45 shocking, scandalous--and often disturbing--stories of promiscuity and sexual...
Can Anybody Help Me?
DS Claire Boyle 1: a completely gripping thriller that will have you hooked
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Chilling thriller for fans of Patricia Gibney and Angela Marsons. Online you never really know who you're talking to. You can never know their true identity or their intentions. Until it's too late...
Recently moved to Dublin and struggling with a new baby, for support Yvonne turns to an online...
Catfulness
A Cat's Guide to Achieving Mindfulness
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
Human beings love to create problems for themselves. I observe this on a daily basis, as do all my feline friends. They never stop, and one of their favorite tasks is to find more tasks to do. They are always looking for something, as if the life they have isn't enough. They say they are looking for...