Quercus: 997 books
by Timur Vermes
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
The smash-hit satirical bestseller, more than 3 million copies sold worldwide
Film a box-office hit in Germany, now available on NETFLIX
A two-part BBC Radio 4 Dramatisation directed by and starring David Threlfall (Shameless)
Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch...
Knight's Shadow
The Greatcoats Book 2
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
'One hell of a good book' Conn Iggulden
The Greatcoats have found the heir to the throne . . . but now they must keep her alive, against all the odds.
Falcio Val Mond has completed the final task given to him by the late King Paelis: he has found the King's Charoites (well, one at least)....
Traitor's Blade
the swashbuckling start of the Greatcoats Quartet
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
'One hell of a good book' - Conn Iggulden
The Greatcoats - legendary heroes, arbiters of justice . . . or notorious traitors?
The Greatcoats are travelling magistrates bringing justice to all . . . or at least they were, before they watched the Dukes impale their King's head on a spike....
by Derek Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
They joined an R.A.F. known as 'the best flying club in the world', but when war pitches the young pilots of 409 Squadron into battle over Germany, their training, tactics and equipment are soon found wanting, their twin-engined bombers obsolete from the off. Chances of completing a 30-operation tour?...
Defending the Motherland
The Soviet Women Who Fought Hitler's Aces
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Plucked from every background, and led by an N.K.V.D. Major, the new recruits who boarded a train in Moscow on 16th October 1941 to go to war had much in common with millions of others across the world. What made the 586th Fighter Regiment, the 587th Heavy-bomber Regiment and the 588th Regiment of...
Avenging Angels
Soviet women snipers on the Eastern front (194145)
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
"Lyuba Vinogradova is a historian with a writer's dramatic eye. By personally interviewing many of the Russian women who as teenagers during WW2 took up arms to defend the motherland, her story becomes undeniably poignant and powerful" MARTIN CRUZ SMITH, author of Gorky Park
The girls...
A Journey to Nowhere
Among the Lands and History of Courland
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Courland is an entity that no longer exists. With the Gulf of Riga to the north, the Baltic to the west and Lithuania at its southern border, and now part of modern Latvia, the region was occupied by Nazi Germany and returned to Soviet Russia after the war, remaining largely inaccessible until 1991.
It...
by Derek Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
From the Phoney War of 1939 to the Battle of Britain in 1940, the pilots of Hornet Squadron learn their lessons the hard way. Hi-jinks are all very well on the ground, but once in a Hurricane's cockpit, the best killers keep their wits close.
Newly promoted Commanding Officer Fanny Barton has a job...
by Derek Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
World War One pilots were the knights of the sky, and the press and public idolised them as gallant young heroes.
At just twenty-three, Major Stanley Woolley is the old man and commanding officer of Goshawk Squadron. He abhors any notion of chivalry in the clouds and is determined to obliterate...
by Derek Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
It's 1917, and Captain Stanley Woolley joins an R.F.C. squadron whose pilots are starting to fear the worst: their war over the Western Front may go on for years. A pilot's life is usually short, so while it lasts it is celebrated strenuously.
Distractions from the brutality of the air war...
by Alice Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
'Informed, impeccably researched and written' Neil Oliver
The Celts are one of the world's most mysterious ancient people. In this compelling account, Alice Roberts takes us on a journey across Europe, uncovering the truth about this engimatic tribe: their origins, their treasure and their...
The Gurkha's Daughter
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
A disfigured servant girl plans to flee Nepal; a Kalimpong shopkeeper faces an impossible dilemma; a Hindu religious festival in Darjeeling brings with it a sacrifice; a Nepali-Bhutanese refugee pins her hopes on the West; a Gurkha's daughter tries to comprehend her father's complaints; two young...
Where the Universe Came From
How Einsteins relativity unlocks the past, present and future of the cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
How did it all begin? Where is it all going?
WHY GENERAL RELATIVITY LEAVES UNFINISHED BUSINESS WITH THE COSMOS
A little over a century ago, a young Albert Einstein presented his general theory of relativity to the world and utterly transformed our understanding of the universe. He overturned...
The Expo Files
Articles by the Crusading Journalist
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Now almost exclusively known as the author of the bestselling Millennium Trilogy, as a professional journalist Stieg Larsson was an untiring crusader for democracy and equality. As a reporter and editor-in-chief on the journal Expo he researched the extreme right both in Sweden and at an international...