On 10 May 1941 Rudolph Hess, then the Deputy Fuhrer, parachuted over Renfrewshire in Scotland on a mission to meet with the Duke of Hamilton, ostensibly to broker a peace deal with the British government. After being held in the Tower of London, he was transferred to Mytchett Place near Aldershot on 20 May, under the codename of `Z`. The house was fitted with microphones and sound recording equipment, guarded by a battalion of soldiers and codenamed Camp Z. Churchill`s instructions were that Hess should be strictly isolated, and that every effort should be taken to get any information out of him that might be useful. During the ensuing thirteen months a psychological battle was waged between intelligence officers using the new Freudian...
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Three single women in their fifties meet when they join a choir. Lucy, recently widowed, is a cook and food journalist; Joanna, a successful business woman, never married; Rebecca is a divorced interior decorator. Each of the women is at a crossroads and they quickly form a bond.
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Winston Churchill attracted far more criticism alive than he has since his death. He was, according to Evelyn Waugh, `always in the wrong, surrounded by crooks, a terrible father, a radio personality`. Whatever one`s view of `the greatest Briton`, and despite the best efforts of an army of writers who have penned portraits of him, Winston Churchill remains splendidly unreduced. In this new biography Ashley Jackson describes the contours of Winston Churchill`s remarkable life and political career, and gives a sense of the man behind the dark eyes and bulldog features. From Cabinet outcast to the greatest war leader ever, this is the eternally fascinating story of Winston Churchill`s appointment with destiny.
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Dr Ruth Galloway is in her late 30s. When she`s not digging up bones or other ancient objects, she lectures at a university in Norfolk. She lives, alone but happily so, in a bleak, marshy area called Saltmarsh overlooking the sea and Norfolk`s vast skies with her cats and Radio 4 for company. She`s a salty character - quirky. When a child`s bones are found in the marshes, near a dig that Ruth and her former boyfriend Peter worked on ten years before, Ruth is called upon to date them. They turn out to be bronze-age bones and DCI Harry Nelson, who called on Ruth for help, is disappointed. He had hoped they would be the bones of a child called Lucy who`s been missing, presumed dead, for ten years. He has been getting letters about her ever...
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Matthew Sobol is dead, but his final creation survives. It begins with a bizarre murder, where the only possible perpetrator happens to be dead. As more killings follow, the police are completely out of their depth. It falls to the unlikely partnership of Sebeck, a computer-illiterate cop, and Ross, an enigmatic hacker, to realise the scale of the imminent danger. The Daemon is seemingly unstoppable, and murder is the least of its capabilities. As it leaves a trail of death and destruction in its wake, Sebeck and Ross must face up to a terrifying possibility. Can they convince a disbelieving world to take drastic action, and shut down the Daemon before it is too late? Explosive, action-packed, terrifyingly relevant, Daemon redefines the...
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011
When their country is invaded and their families are taken, eight high school teenagers band together to fight. Seventeen-year-old Ellie and her friends have survived the invasion and hit back at the soldiers who still hold their family and friends captive. But two of their band are captured: Kevin is imprisoned and Corrie is alive, but in a coma. Homer and Ellie are determined to get them back and to continue their campaign against the enemy. They discover that there are other rebels out there, fighting the invaders - but who are they and can they be trusted? As the pressure grows, can Ellie work out her conflicted feelings for the brilliant, arrogant Homer and the strong, gentle Lee? As war rages, and the enemy closes in, Ellie and her...
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2012
The Demi-Monde is the most advanced simulation ever devised. Thirty million people ruled by history`s cruellest tyrants, locked in eternal civil conflict. The intention: to create the closest thing to Hell, and prepare soldiers for the nightmarish environment of war. But something has gone badly wrong. Reinhard Heydrich - or at least a simulacrum resembling the Nazi monster - has kidnapped the President`s daughter from the Real-World and concealed her within the Demi-Monde, making it impossible for the program to be switched off. This achieved, he has cut off all contact with reality. It falls to Ella Thomas, a young jazz singer, to infiltrate Heydrich`s virtual domain and rescue the missing girl. But once inside she will discover that...
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Sealed for one hundred and twenty-five years, Wilkie Collins`s scribbled words launch a feverish descent into the underbelly of Victorian London as he is dragged into Charles Dickens`s pursuit of a spectral figure known only as Drood.
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Uncovered here are the 100 groundbreaking discoveries that reveal why Earth is the one lucky blue planet in our Solar System that can support life and how this has come about in its myriad forms. The Material World: clay and quartz, feldspar and diamond, satellite image of deltaic muds, sandy desert, feldspar crystals, diamond, crystal, the water cycle, seawater, clouds, glacier ice, volcanic gas propelling pyroclastic flow. Earth`s Engine: computer model of flow in the core and the magnetic field, major fault zone San Andreas or East African Rift; folded rocks in mountains one of the alpine `nappes` or Zagros mountain folds and erupting volcano. Earth`s Changing Face: Earth`s oldest rocks (Greenland or Pilbara, Australia), stromatolites...
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: январь 2013
Exactly ten days after I`d come back to care for my dad, it occurred to me that I had turned into a housewife. Not just any housewife. My mother. Kill me now Meredith does things for other people. She irons clothes for her boyfriend, she attends her ex-best friend`s horrendous hen party for her brother (who`s about to marry the girl) and she moves back to her parents` house to look after her dad when his leg is broken. She`s a good girl and that matters. But when she gets back home, all is not as Meredith remembered. Especially Scott, that geeky teenager from her old class at school. He`s definitely different now. And so, it seems, is she. One by one, her family and old friends start to tell her some home truths and Meredith begins to...
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
`A man doesn`t work for his enemies unless he has little choice in the matter.` So says Bernie Gunther. It is 1954 and Bernie is in Cuba. Tiring of his increasingly dangerous work spying on Meyer Lansky, Bernie acquires a boat and a beautiful companion and quits the island. But the US Navy has other ideas, and soon he finds himself in a place with which he is all too familiar - a prison cell. After exhaustive questioning, he is flown back to Berlin and yet another prison cell with a proposition: work for French intelligence or hang for murder. The job is simple: he is to meet and greet POWs returning to Germany and to look out for one in particular, a French war criminal and member of the French SS who has been posing as a German...
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Beginning with Ramses III`s dramatic defeat of the `sea people` in 1176 BC - the world`s earliest visual record of a naval battle - Fighting Ships tells the story of 3000 years of maritime history through 150 glorious images. From the Greeks, Phoenicians and Romans to the coming of the age of sail, here are breathtaking depictions of ancient triremes and Viking longships, the Santa Maria and the Spanish Armada, as well as Henry VIII`s giant carracks and the majestic three-decked warships of Louis IV that patrolled the Mediterranean. Arranged chronologically, this sumptuous collection of grand-scale images brings together the earliest carvings on temple walls and the world-famous Bayeux tapestry, with exquisite depictions by the greatest...
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
This stunning collection of over 170 large-format colour illustrations includes paintings of ships at sea, in action, in convoy, and in siege; architectural drawings; battle diagrams; sea charts and signals; portraits of leading figures in naval history; and details of guns, sails, and life below deck. Taken from contemporary sources, they range from the Seven Years` War to the American Civil War. The book focuses on the navies of all the major Atlantic sea powers of the time, including Britain, America, France, Holland, Sweden and Russia. Arranged in chronological order, each illustration is accompanied by an extended caption that adds to this visual feast a compelling history of naval warfare in the last great age of sail. This volume...
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Melander likes to do things flashy. When Parker finds himself working with Melander on a bank heist in a mid-sized midwestern city, his job is throwing a Molotov cocktail into a gas station. The resulting explosion sends the cops and fire trucks to the east side of town, while Melander and his gang plunder the bank on the west side. But Parker doesn`t care for Melander`s plan for a new heist, one that will clean out Palm Beach of a lot of very expensive jewelry. What Parker really dislikes is Melander`s intention to use the proceeds from the bank job to capitalize the Palm Beach including Parker`s cut. Melander is very polite about Parker`s disinterest, and very sincere about paying him his with after the jewelry job goes down. But...
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011
The Daemon is now firmly in control and moving towards its endgame, using an expanding network of real-world, dispossessed darknet operatives to tear civilization apart and build it anew. As the global economy begins to fail, the world`s most powerful organizations - monolithic corporations, complete with armies of their own - prepare to fight their unseen enemy. When a brutal civil war breaks out in the United States, former detective Pete Sebeck, now the Daemon`s most powerful though reluctant operative, must lead a small band of enlightened humans to protect the new world order. Amid conflicting loyalties, rapidly diminishing human power and the possibility that anyone can be a daemon operative or a corporate spy, Sebeck knows that he...
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: май 2011
Tabitha Tumbly, Charlie Vapour, Rusty Chains and friends can`t understand why the still-alives in their house are so mean. When Pamela Fraidy gets locked in the attic by a still-alive, the ghosties are determined to make the still-alives like them. But the more friendly they are - hiding under beds and rushing out to read them a bed-time story, rushing down the chimney to say hello, the meaner the still-alives become; they even go so far as to run out of rooms shrieking! When the family start putting nasty garlic around the house and then call in a priest, the ghostie gloves are off: Tabitha and Charlie decide to call in The Ghoul to sort out the still-alives once and for all: But could the terrifying ghoul prove much more than even the...
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
It`s winter and what better than a ghostly holler-day by the sea? But how are Tabitha Tumbly, Charlie Vapour, Humphrey Bump and the other ghosties to decide between Frighten-on-Sea and Scare-borough? A postcard from their friend Headless Leslie decides for them: Headless is in Frighten and cannot remember how to get home. He wrote the address on the postcard, then he forgot what the address was. `I`d lose my head if it wasn`t screwed on - which it isn`t.` So the friends descend on Frighten and set off on an exciting ghostie caper, involving a haunted Frighten pier, a mysterious phantom magician, a fun fair and an extremely infuriating Headless Leslie.
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government. But he has no idea just how explosive the story will be until, on the eve of publication, the two investigating reporters are murdered. And even more shocking for Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander — the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker who came to his aid in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and who now becomes the focus and fierce heart of The Girl Who Played with Fire. As Blomkvist,...
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The Trial. Lisbeth Salander - outsider and apparent enemy of society - is charged with attempted murder. The state has also ruled that she is mentally unstable, and should be locked away in an institution once again. But she is closely guarded in a hospital, having taken a bullet to the head, so how will she prove her innocence? The Enemy. Pulling the strings of the prosecution is the powerful inner circle of Sapo, the state security police. Determined to protect the secrets and corruption at Sweden`s rotten core, Sapo is not an adversary to take on alone. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets` Nest. Only with the help of Mikael Blomkvist and the journalists at Millennium magazine can Salander avoid the fate that has been decided for her....
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011
