Quercus: 997 books
Why Travel Matters
A Guide to the Life-Changing Effects of Travel
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
When you travel, you have a choice: You can be a tourist and have a nice time, or you can be a traveler and change your life. Why Travel Matters is for those who want to change their lives.
Why Travel Matters explores the profound life lessons that await anyone who wishes to learn what travel...
Was That Really Me?
How Everyday Stress Brings Out Our Hidden Personality
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2002
An updated edition of the classic title, Beside Ourselves
In Was That Really Me?, Naomi Quenk has provided the next giant step in applying Jung's model of development in healthy personalities. That step is to understand, accept, and learn to handle our hidden personality responsibly.
Updating...
How to be Human
Consciousness, Language and 48 More Things that Make You You
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
If you thought you knew who you were, THINK AGAIN. Gat to REALLY know yourself with How to be Human.
Did you know that half your DNA isn't human? That somebody, somewhere has exactly the same face? Or that most of your memories are fiction?
What about the fact that you are as hairy as...
by Angharad Price
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
In the early years of the last century, Rebecca is born into a rural community in the Maesglasau valley in Wales; her family have been working the land for a thousand years, but the changes brought about by modernity threaten the survival of her language, and her family's way of life.
Rebecca's...
by Benny Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
It's true that some people spend years studying Italian before they finally get around to speaking the language. But here's a better idea. Skip the years of study and jump right to the speaking part. Sound crazy? No, it's language hacking.
Unlike most traditional language courses that try to...
by Andrew Greig
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
'Highly Engaging' - Sunday Herald
'You could easily make a case that Andrew Greig has the greatest range of any living Scottish writer' - Scotsman
The wager
To poach a salmon, grouse and a deer from three Royal Estates.
The challengers
Three men in a mid-life crisis who should know better.
The...
Chinese Whispers
A stunning race-against-time serial killer thriller (China Thriller 6)
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR
'A TENSE AND ATMOSPHERIC THRILLER WITH A HEART-STOPPING ENDING' TANGLED WEB
'POWERFUL AND AUTHENTIC' GLASGOW HERALD
The Beijing Ripper makes a personal vendetta against Detective Li Yan in the sixth and final episode in the China series
GRUESOME...
by Duncan Jepson
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Hong Kong, August 2017.
On the eve of a crisis summit for world economic leaders, two Chinese Methodist ministers are killed in an apparently motiveless execution in Hong Kong's financial district. Luck makes Detective Alex Soong one of the first officers at the scene.
Yet Soong begins...
by Eva Rice
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
'Beautifully written, intelligent and gripping' Daily Mail. From the Richard and Judy bestselling author of The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets.
Every ending is a new beginning . . .
No one expected Marnie Fitzpatrick to be expelled from school . . . but the aftermath will haunt her forever.
No...
Ghost of a Dream
Ghost Finders Book 3
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
JC, Melody and Happy Jack are looking forward to working a straightforward case for a change. They're about to be disappointed.
After the potentially world-altering events of their last assignment, the Ghost Finders are looking forward to working a more run-of-the-mill case. The team has asked...
Ghost of a Chance
Ghost Finders Book 1
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Meet the operatives of the Carnacki Institute.
The Institute's operatives are the best of the best: JC Chance, team leader, is undoubtedly brave, sharp as a tack, incredibly charming - and almost unbearably arrogant. Melody Chambers may be a science geek, but she's also the techno-wizard extraordinaire...
Ghost of a Smile
Ghost Finders Book 2
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
The Operatives of the Carnacki Institute are prepared for anything . . . except this.
When the Ghost Finders answer a distress call from the private research centre of one of the biggest drug companies in the world, the last thing they expect to encounter is a threat to the building's very...
Spirits From Beyond
Ghost Finders Book 4
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The Carnacki Institute is all about ghosts - or at least, keeping them under control.
Their latest assignment sees JC and the team sent to a small country village, site of a famously haunted inn. At first, JC thinks that the spirits in the King's Arms are more the stuff of urban legend than...
Voices From Beyond
Ghost Finders Book 5
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Ghost-busting is never simple: just ask the Ghost Finder's of New York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green's Carnacki Institute.
In a quiet London suburb, four university students are holding a séance in a house everyone knows is haunted - and, of course, it goes terribly wrong. Whatever...