Quercus: 997 books
Film in Five Seconds
Over 150 Great Movie Moments - in Moments!
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
In today's jet-fuelled, caffeine-charged, celebrity-a-minute world, who actually has the time to watch a film from start to finish? Let's face it, life's too short. Now, Film in Five Seconds lets you fast-forward to the best bits so you can enjoy all your favourite movie moments in - literally - moments.
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Hash
The Chilling Inside Story of the Secret Underworld Behind the World's Most Lucrative Drug
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
For millions of people across the world, lighting up a joint is no more controversial than having a cup of tea. But in Hash Wensley Clarkson explores the dark and sinister side of this multi-billion pound business: one fuelled by a brutal underworld network of dealers, drug barons, bent cops and even...
Legal Highs
Inside Secrets of the World's Newest and Deadliest Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Legal Highs are without doubt the biggest drug scourge to blight the world since recreational drugs first hit the streets more than 100 years ago. Their growing menace opens up a new front in the drug war, shifting the battle line from the Colombian jungles, Moroccan valleys, Afghan hills and the...
Big Ideas in Brief
200 World-Changing Concepts Explained In An Instant
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Big Ideas in Brief provides an accessible and easily understood tour of 200 key concepts that really matter. The ideas covered come from a wide range of subjects - Philosophy, Religion, Science, Politics, Economics, Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology and the Arts. A series of short and lively articles...
The Great British Year
Wildlife through the Seasons
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Britain is a place of remarkable beauty and extraordinary extremes, boasting immense natural diversity in a comparatively small area. Here, life is run by the seasons: each month brings enormous transformations to our island and its inhabitants, from the largest native mammal to the smallest migrant...
War Gardens
A Journey Through Conflict in Search of Calm
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
'A remarkable book . . . It's a powerful testament to the healing balm of gardening and the resilience of the human spirit in the direst of circumstances.' Financial Times
'Not a happy book and yet it's magically heartening. It makes a gardener question his or her values.' The Times
'This...
A Short History of Truth
Consolations for a Post-Truth World
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
How did we find ourselves in a "post-truth" world of "alternative facts"? And can we get out of it? A Short History of Truth sets out to answer these questions by looking at the complex history of truth and falsehood. It identifies ten types of supposed truth and explains how easily...
by Tom Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Genetics in Minutes is your compact and accessible guide to the central concepts of the science of genetics, revealing how our genes shape our bodies and our lives, and how in turn we are beginning to shape them. Covering the basics of DNA, inheritance and evolution in animals, plants and humans alike...
by Derek Robinson, Simon Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Here, for the first time, is an intimate and fascinating portrait of Rudolf Nureyev off-stage - a man who was an exacting, unpredictable, parsimonious and often immature individual, yet who, at the same time, aroused great affection in a host of friends.
Simon Robinson frankly recalls his eventful...
100 Things You Will Never Do
And How to Achieve the Impossible
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Ever fancied travelling through time? Taming a lion? Winning a Nobel Prize? Well, here's how to attempt all that and more. Daniel Smith - author of 100 Places You Will Never Visit - takes you on an entertaining journey through 100 things you will (probably) never get the chance to do.
Offering...
by Elizabeth Gill
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
A gritty, emotional saga about tragic loss, a mysterious inheritance and one woman's determination to succeed in the male-dominated society of 1920s northern England.
Since childhood, Lucy Charlton has dreamed of working with her father in the family solicitor's firm. But when scandal shatters her...
by Elizabeth Gill
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
A stark, emotive saga about love and loss in the North of England at the turn of the 20th century. On her father's death, Kate Ferrar is expected to move from London to a mining village in County Durham, to live with an uncle she barely knows. Restricted by the confines of polite society and hungry...
Miss Appleby's Academy
The Bestselling Emotionally Gripping Saga
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
The bestselling emotional saga set in County Durham. Perfect for fans of Dilly Court, Maggie Hope and Nadine Dorries.
Emma Appleby's arrival in the County Durham village of Tow Law is sudden and mysterious, provoking deep suspicion in the locals. And because she has a child with her, seemingly...
by G.F. Newman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
In 1951 the Festival of Britain marks a new golden age of hope and prosperity for the country. Things are certainly looking up for the criminal elite who run the East End.
For Jack, a draft-dodger with aspirations to be a champion boxer, there's easy money to be made for providing a bit of...