Pittsburgh was too small for Beryl Wexler. Barely out of high school, she changed her name to Buzz and set off for the bright lights of London. She never looked back. Now she`s at the top of her game in the music PR business, looking after the coolest groups on the planet. And for a woman who was forty-two last birthday she certainly keeps up the pace. But her life is about to change. Some twenty-year-old has been given the new Japanese girl band predicted to go stellar, and Buzz is being sidelined. Instead, Buzz gets to tour with the Gorni Grannies, Bulgarian singers of a certain age. These ladies may not be the tantrum-throwing celebs Buzz is used to, but they present other challenges. How to stop Lubka straining yogurt through her...
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Luciano Hernando Valdez is his Latin American nation`s most celebrated novelist and he`s suffering from writer`s block. So far his latest great work comprises the words `The scrawny yellow cat crossed the road`. He`s tried all his usual tricks to get back on track - he`s had a few debates with his trusty colleagues at the university, he`s had an affair with the banker`s wife, nothing will work. Until he meets Caterina. Beautiful, young and one of his biggest fans, she has idolized him since she was a child and he has inspired her to write. Convinced that falling in love with her, spending every minute he can alongside her, moulding her to his world, will unlock something and enable him to write, he pursues her and soon enough, he falls...
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Baby is twelve years old. Her mother died not long after she was born and she lives in a string of seedy flats in Montreal`s red light district with her father Jules, who takes better care of his heroin addiction than he does of his daughter. Jules is an intermittent presence and a constant source of chaos in Baby`s life - the turmoil he brings with him and the wreckage he leaves in his wake. Baby finds herself constantly re-adjusting to new situations, new foster homes, new places, new people, all the while longing for stability and a `normal` life. But Baby has a gift - the ability to find the good in people, a genius for spinning stories and for cherishing the small crumbs of happiness that fall into her lap. She is bright, smart,...
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Sneaking out of prison isn`t easy, unless you are a thief, or a wizard. Luckily, Conn is both! Trouble is, once he`s out, where does he go? His home is a pile of rubble since he blew it up doing magic. His master, the wizard Nevery, is furious. With a new order of exile, this time with a death penalty, Conn has never been in such a tight fix. But Wellmet is in danger from an evil predator coming to destroy the city. Now Conn must set off on a quest to find something that will help him fight back. After an explosive experiment, he follows the call of his magic stone to a distant land. When Conn is swept away in the mouth of a magnificent Dragon, he is to face a power unlike any but is he a match for it and can he save his city, and...
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Sherlock Holmes` nemesis lives again. It`s the turn of the century and Moriarty has been away from London for several years, setting up crime syndicates in the US. But he`s suddenly called back to London to deal with the European upstart criminals who have attempted to oust him.
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Bernie Gunther is the ideal narrator for Philip Kerr` bleak tale of the dirty deals made by victors and vanquished alike in post-war Germany. Having learned that there`s no way to distinguish `the one from the other`, the cynical has the moral clarity to see through the deceit and hypocrisy of both friend and is Munich, in the year 1949. Amid the chaos of defeat, it`s home to all the backstabbing intrigue that prospers in the aftermath of war. A place where a private eye can find a lot of not-quite-reputable work: cleaning up the Nazi past of well-to-do locals, abetting fugitives in the flight abroad, and sorting out rival claims to stolen goods. It`s work that fills Bernie with disgust - but it also fills his sorely depleted wallet....
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: март 2012
Posing as an escaping Nazi war-criminal Bernie Gunther arrives in Buenos Aires and, having revealed his real identity to the local chief of police, discovers that his reputation as a detective goes before him. A young girl has been murdered in peculiarly gruesome circumstances that strongly resemble Bernie`s final case as a homicide detective with the Berlin police. A case he had failed to solve. Circumstances lead the chief of police in Buenos Aires to suppose that the murderer may be one of several thousand ex Nazis who have fetched up in Argentina since 1945. And, therefore, who better than Bernie Gunther to help him track that murderer down? Redolent with atmosphere, this novel ends up asking some highly provocative questions about...
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Pack life is about order, but Bryn is about to push all the limits, with hair-raising results. At the age of four, Bryn watched a rabid werewolf brutally murder her parents. Alone in the world, she was rescued and taken in by Callum, the alpha of his pack. Now fifteen, Bryn`s been living as a human among the werewolves, adhering to pack rule. Little fazes her. But the pack`s been keeping a secret, and when Bryn goes exploring against Callum`s orders she finds Chase, a newly turned teen Were locked in a cage.
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Is the young man simply drunk or does his staggering walk suggest something more sinister? When he collapses in front of the two sisters on that dark, wet night, the women guess rightly that he`s been poisoned. So begins this gripping tale set in the town of Banff, Scotland in the 1620s. The body of the victim, the apothecary`s apprentice, is found in the house of Alexander Seaton - a fallen minister, the discovery of whose clandestine love affair has left him disgraced and deprived him of his vocation. Why was the body moved to Seaton`s house? What is the significance of the unusual poison used to kill him? And why would anyone want to murder this likeable young man? Seaton sets out to find answers to these and many other questions,...
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011
The trouble with being a vampire You can`t get a decent haircut. You live on guinea-pig blood. And even worse, most of the world`s population wants to kill you. For no good reason. Nina Harrison became a vampire in 1973, when she was fifteen. Since then, life`s been one big drag - mostly because she spends all her time with a bunch of vampires, in a vampire therapy group. Then one of them gets staked by an anonymous vampire slayer, and things become even worse: while tracking down the culprit, Nina and her fellow vampires end up in the middle of an illegal werewolf-fighting racket, and find themselves the target of some genuine villains who`ll stop at nothing to get their werewolf back.
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Merrily Watkins, parish priest, single mum and Deliverance Consultant to the Diocese of Hereford, heads for the Malvern Hills to investigate an alleged paranormal dimension to a spate of road accidents in the sleepy village of Wychehill. Merrily is called in when two people are killed in a head-on crash that is also linked to the revamped local pub which, it seems, has injected the valley with a shattering, strobing surge of inner-city and drugs. When a dealer is found savagely murdered below the great earthen hillfort of Herefordshire Beacon, police ask: is it a ritual killing, a gangland disposal or a cry of outrage? As Merrily and the police follow separate paths towards the truth, Merrily`s teenage daughter, Jane, faces the...
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Marshall Ziegler`s father, Owen, has been murdered. Brutally, violently, disembowelled. And Marshall discovered the body in the basement of his father`s art gallery. During their last conversation, Owen had hinted at having something to hide, something that could really cause a stir in the art world. But Marshall works as a translator and has taken no interest in his father`s business. Until now, when he needs to get revenge. So Marshall starts to investigate. His financial troubles are immediately evident, but it`s only a meeting with his father`s oldest friend and mentor that reveals the truth behind Owen`s secret - he has proof that many of Rembrandt`s paintings were faked, but where is that proof now? As Marshall digs deeper, someone...
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011
By the author of Life and Fate, now a major Radio 4 drama starring Kenneth Branagh. Vasily Grossman is widely recognized as one of the outstanding literary figures of the twentieth century. The short fiction collected here - satire, comedy, tragedy and pure narrative - illustrate the remarkable breadth of his work, and demonstrate all the bold intelligence, delicate irony and extraordinary vividness for which he has become known. In addition to the eleven stories, this volume includes the complete text of `The Hell of Treblinka`, one of the first descriptions of a Nazi extermination camp; a powerful and harrowing piece of journalism written only weeks after the camp was dissolved. Beautifully illuminated by Robert Chandler`s...
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Science is a visually stunning introduction to all the major scientific disciplines, covering chemistry, physics, geology, biology and cosmology. Each section begins with a lively introduction to the scientific branch under investigation, before moving on to a more in-depth exploration of its constituent components and themes. The end result is a magnificent introduction to all that is currently understood about the natural world. Piers Bizony begins with physics and the basic building blocks of matter, offering a lucid and usefully illustrated account of the extraordinary and often baffling world of atomic and subatomic particles. There follows a discussion of chemistry and the main phases of matter such as solids, liquids, gases,...
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: январь 2013
Science in 100 key breakthroughs presents a series of clear and concise essays that explain the fundamentals of some of the most exciting and important science concepts you really need to know. Paul Parsons profiles the important, ground-breaking, and front-of-mind scientific discoveries that have had a profound influence on our way of life and will grow in importance with our advancing understanding. In 100 sections, this book provides an overview of the history of Western science, from astronomy and physics to geology, biology and psychology and everything in between. Starting with the origins of counting more than 35,000 years ago, Science tells a rich and fascinating story of discovery, invention, gradual progress and inspired leaps...
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Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: январь 2013
Kate McKinnon is thirty-six and mother to five-year-old Toby. She has a small but thriving business catering for private clients. Her life is on an even keel. That is, until she gets a job cooking lunch at the Foreign Office and has her first fateful meeting with Oliver Stapler, Secretary of State. He`s powerful and charismatic, but also married and a father and totally out of bounds, yet she falls for him. When a journalist spots them together, he alerts the gutter press. Who cares whether Kate`s affair with Oliver is true or not? It`s a great story and will shift a ton of newspapers - and destroy several lives in the process.
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In the final days of the Second World War, Michael Rogan, an American intelligence officer, is tortured by a group of seven senior Gestapo officers who need to discover the secrets he alone can give them. Ten years later, when he has recovered from the appalling injuries he suffered, and determined to revenge the death of his wife at the hands of the same men, he begins a quest to track down and kill each one of his tormentors. Dark, violent, and graphic, this is an addictive thriller about how far one man will go to exact his own justice. Written a year before Puzo completed The Godfather, published under a pseudonym and only very recently brought to light, Six Graves to Munich bears all the hallmarks of a master storyteller.
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Born as a Germanic tongue with the arrival in Britain of the Anglo-Saxons in the early medieval period, heavily influenced by Norman French from the 11th century, and finally emerging as modern English from the late Middle Ages, the English language has grown to become the linguistic equivalent of a superpower, and is now sometimes described as the world`s lingua franca. Worldwide some 380 million people speak English as a first language and some 600 million as a second language. A staggering one billion people are believed to be learning it. English is the premier international language in communications, science, business, aviation, entertainment, and diplomacy and also on the Internet. It has been one of the official languages of the...
Издательство:
Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press)
Дата выхода: август 2011
