Quercus Publishing: 627 books
by John L. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
In 1954, Shirley Bassey was seventeen years old. She had just returned from a cheesy revue tour called 'Hot from Harlem'. Depressed, disillusioned and four months' pregnant, she decided that her dream of being a professional singer was over. A mere ten years later, she was one of the biggest stars...
America's Mistress
Eartha Kitt, Her Life and Times
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Eartha Kitt was a skinny, mixed-race woman with an odd, angular face, who seduced fifties white America into thinking that she was, in the words of Orson Welles, 'the most exciting woman in the world'. She could count Marilyn Monroe, T.S. Eliot, Prince Philip and Albert Einstein among her friends...
50 Art Ideas
You Really Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
A visit to an art gallery can be a baffling experience - a bewildering parade of paintings, sculptures, artists and movements with little perspective on how they all fit together. 50 Art Ideas you Really Need to Know is here to help. For all those who don't know their Degas from Dali or their Monet...
Zero Six Bravo
60 Special Forces. 100,000 Enemy. The Explosive True Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller.
They were branded as cowards and accused of being the British Special Forces Squadron that ran away from the Iraqis. But nothing could be further from the truth. Ten years on, the story of these sixty men can finally be told.
In March 2003 M Squadron...
The Perfect Prey
The fall of ABN Amro, or: what went wrong in the banking industry
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
On 9 October 2007, the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) celebrated its leading role in the biggest deal in banking history, a record 71 billion euros for Dutch bank ABN Amro. Searching for an immediate profit, the victors dismantled ABN Amro - and Holland's number one bank ceased to exist. Shareholders...
I Followed the Rules
a laugh-out-loud romcom you won't be able to put down!
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
From the bestselling author of THE LIST and RELIGHT MY FIRE, comes a hilarious novel about how to find true love by the book...
My friends think I'm insane, I'm stalking men all over town and I'm on a deadline.
Most people have heard of The Rules of Engagement, the book that promises...
An Epic Swindle
44 Months with a Pair of Cowboys
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
AN EPIC SWINDLE is the inside story of how Liverpool FC came within hours of being re-possessed by the banks after the shambolic 44-month reign of American owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett. It is the tale of a civil war that dragged Britain's most successful football club to its knees, through...
by Katie Piper
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2016
'Confidence is about empowerment. It's about valuing who you are, not what you want to do or how you look. It's about finding the courage to live the life you want, the way you want. Don't look for happiness in other people, find it in yourself.' Katie Piper
Katie Piper is Britain's most inspiring...
Words of Wisdom
Philosophy's Most Important Quotations and Their Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Words of Wisdom brings together 360 of Philosophy's most famous quotations, explaining their meaning and telling the stories behind them.
Western philosophy may be said to have begun in ancient Greece, where, inscribed in his temple at Delphi, the words of the god Apollo commanded those who...
Life in Five Seconds
Over 200 Stories for Those With No Time to Waste
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Winner of the Cannes Lions Bronze Award for Design 2013!
In today's caffeine-charged, jet-fuelled, celebrity-a-minute world, who actually has the time to learn a thing or two? C'mon, let's face it, life's too bloody short. What you need is instant knowledge.
Told in ingenious, award-winning...
Tretower to Clyro
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Karl Miller is one of the greatest literary critics of the last fifty years, the founder of the London Review of Books and Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College, London.
In this last book of essays he turns his attention to appreciate certain writers...
Art
Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Artists and Their Works
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Art introduces readers to 100 of the world's most important artists and their paintings, from the 13th century to the modern era. Works by artists including Caravaggio, Vermeer, van Gogh and Warhol are reproduced in superb high quality, arranged chronologically and set in their historical context...
The Curse of Brink's-Mat
Twenty-Five Years of Murder and Mayhem - The Inside Story of the 20th Century's Most Lucrative Armed Robbery
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
'It wasn't only Britain's biggest heist, it became the bloodiest' Mail on Sunday
The inside story of the 20th century's most lucrative armed robbery.
On 26 November 1983 six armed robbers escaped with £28 million worth of gold bullion from a Brink's-Mat warehouse at London's Heathrow...
Above Head Height
A Five-A-Side Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
'The Fever PItch of five-a-side' TONY PARSONS
A must-have for anyone who has ever played and enjoyed amateur football.
James Brown has been playing football since growing up in the backstreets of Leeds. The sudden death of one his long-standing team mates made James ponder the unique...