Books from Quercus
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Golden Hour
By William NicholsonTwenty-nine years old and people think he's still a kid. Terry's one year older and he could be his dad. But you know something? So fucking what. It's not what you look like that does the business. Take Brad. Nothing special about Brad.
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The Story of Christianity
By David Bentley HartThe story of Christianity is an immeasurably fascinating one.
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The Garden of Burning Sand
By Corban AddisonWesley had a better name for Africa. He called it “The Garden of Burning Sand”—a land of splendor and severity, a land that gives and takes away. I loved him for a memorable season, and then life called me home. The rest you know.
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The Third Reich
By Richard OveryThe Third Reich was the name Hitler and the Nazi Party gave to the dictatorship that began in 1933 and ended twelve years later with the utter destruction of Germany and Hitler's suicide.
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Companies that Changed the World
By Jonathan MantleA week later Big Brother was a smash hit in Holland and de Mol had turned down Pearson's offer . Bart and Sabine , two housemates in the first series , had been shown apparently having sex on camera and Sabine had been evicted from the ...
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The Fabric of Sin
By Phil RickmanEric Davies, meanwhile, had been made aware of gossip—he was inline for chairman, or president or something, ofthe local branch ofthe NFU and someone had discreetly pointed out that perhaps Mary Roberts was not goodfor hisimage, ...
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America's Mistress: The Life and Times of Miss Eartha Kitt
By John L. WilliamsIt attracted a supremely sniffy review from Dunham's great rival in the glamorous anthropologist stakes, Zora Neale Hurston, in the Herald Tribune. “After all,” Hurston notes, “thirty days in a locality is not much in research and ...
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Coffin Road
By Peter May“Anything at all about a Neal David Maclean.” I fumble in my shoulder bag and bring out the extract of birth. “Ah, you must have accessed ScotlandsPeople online to get that?” “No.” I am thinking as quickly as my hangover will allow.
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50 Big Ideas You Really Need to Know
By Ben Dupre“Take up the White Man's burden—Send forth the best ye breed—Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need; To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild—Your newcaught, sullen peoples, Half devil and half child.
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Does Your Rabbi Know You're Here?: The Story of English Football's Forgotten Tribe
By Anthony ClavaneCity banks had to ask the accountant and corporate troubleshooter David Buchler to rescue the club, and, after going through five different backers, manager Terry Venables finally found one who would do the deal: Sugar.
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The Road to Berry Edge
By Elizabeth GillNancy fell asleep thinking that she would talk to Vera about it. Vera did cleaning at the top end ofthe town wherethe terraced houses stood beside thepark. She might be able to help with some work. The next day people dropped into see ...
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The Spy
By James PhelanI had unwavering support from my three families: Phelan, Wallace and Beasley. Thanks to my pro readers Tony Wallace, Jesse Beasley and Emily McDonald. Thanks also to Mal, Michelle, Tony and Chaz for your early feedback.
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How to Outwit Aristotle
By Peter CaveBarber. To end on a classic contradiction that sometimes sends minds reeling, let us relay the tale of the Barberof Alcala, courtesy of Bertrand Russell. The barber shaves all and only those whodo notshave themselves.
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Eden in Winter
By Richard North PattersonNumber one New York Times best-selling author Richard North Patterson, author of more than twenty novels, including Degree of Guilt and Silent Witness, returns with the dramatic conclusion to the Blaine trilogy: Eden in Winter, the final ...
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Fever Swamp: A Journey Through the Strange Neverland of the 2016 Presidential Race
By Richard North PattersonIn this bracing, funny book, Patterson brings to bear a novelist's piercing sensibility to the process of examining the election, moments that betray a candidate's character and inner life and hold up a mirror to the American population.
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Ostland
By David ThomasBased on a horrifying true story of one of the Holocaust's worst Nazi war criminals, this novel combines a police procedural, a courtroom thriller, and a fast-paced war-time narrative.
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Breverton's Encyclopedia of Inventions
By Terry BrevertonSikorsky in1913 designed and flew the world's first multi engine fixedwing aircraft, the fourengined S21 Russky Vityaz (Russian Knight), which he test flew inSt. Petersburg. Experts and media around the world scoffed at his proposals, ...
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The Ancient World in Minutes
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100 Things They Don't Want You To Know
By Daniel SmithRanging from suspicious deaths (Black Dahlia) to suspected murderers (Jack the Ripper) and from ancient artifacts (Tarim Mummies) to Cold War cover-ups (Lost Cosmonauts), via documents that remain untranslatable (Voynich Manuscript), ...
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Guinea Pigs Online: The Ice Factor
By Jennifer Gray, Amanda SwiftFlakes of snow flicked in all directions. They fell onto the kitchen floor and started to melt. Then dollops of snow dropped to the ground. Coco, Fuzzy, and Terry could see that underneath the snow was a guinea pig with black fur ...