Books published by Quercus Publishing

The acclaimed story of a young girl's awakening - set in the the evocative, beautiful Ukrainian/Polish city of Lviv

True, inspirational and amazing tales of boys and girls who stood up and stood out.

Epic multi-generational family saga by the judge of Great British Bake Off. Formerly entitled The Food of Love.

Meet the Amazing Telemachus Family! - The BBC Radio 2 Book Club choice

From the best-selling author of Old Man on a Bike, a travelogue telling the story of octogenarian Simon Gandolfi's travels across India by motorbike.

This is the adrenaline-pumping story of the world's most audacious drug runners and the police hunt, 'Operation Playboy', to track them down.

The night was November 9th 1989, and the Berlin Wall was coming down. For perhaps the first time in a century the world was empathising with the Germans. But then not even the men who gave the orders in east Berlin knew it would happen. The fall of the Berlin Wall was the triumphant vindication of the 'cock-up' theory of history.

The story of a lost film about the relationship between Adolf Hitler and the English aristocrat Unity Mitford

This roman a clef revolves around Victoria, barely twenty, who finds herself acting as amanuensis to Laurence, an elderly man of letters, now blind, who lives in a ravishing house by the sea in northern Italy. Soon after her arrival, she indulges in a heady night of passion with Edgar, a youthful Englishman. Edgar's mother, Lettice, who is jealous and suspicious of Victoria's prettiness and her ability to amuse Lettice's intellectual friends, decides to ensure that Victoria's new life back in England is a misery. Darkly funny and deeply insightful, Lettice & Victoria is not just a love story with a fanciful and flawed female protagonist, but a wonderful portrait of 1950s English society.

Peter Millar embarks upon the train journey of a life time, travelling through this still exotic, diverse and challenging North African country, struggling to maintain its unique blend of tradition and tolerance in the turbulent winds of the Arab Spring.

A young woman has been killed on a running trail, and a pendant depicting an Aztec god has been found in her possession. Another murder soon follows. All signs point to a serial killer. But can Anna catch the Hummingbird before he - or she - strikes again?

DI Joni Pax, a London homicide detective wounded in a disastrous raid, has been transferrred to the newly formed Police Force of North East England. Her boss, DCI Hector Rutherford is recently back at work after cancer treatment. Between them they are responsible for major crime in rural Northumberland and County Durham.

The inside story of the 50 most evil female murderers in world history

In an exquisite personal pilgrimage, Corinne Hofmann delves into the slums of Nairobi to uncover the heart-warming and heart-breaking stories of unforgettable people and places, then treks 500 miles across the Namibian desert to discover the lives of the nomadic Himba people.

First serious novel about Lourdes since Zola

Juliet is consumed with guilt knowing that her half-brother, Brenton, grew up in children's homes while she received all her mother's love. She marries Clayton, a successful banker, to please her mother. But secretly Clayton has always suspected that there is something between Juliet and her half-brother. Meanwhile, Juliet and Brenton try to stay away from what they know is a forbidden love.

The breathtaking debut psychological thriller from bestselling author Jo Spain.

Modern and traditional values collide in this epic story of love and betrayal set in a wealthy Muslim community

Friendless, ostracised and bullied, Josiah is saved from despair when he meets his Latin tutor,Thomas Marius, with whom he soon forms an intense relationship. Marius takes him to Italy on an educational visit but returns to find he is suspected of child abuse...

The remarkable true story of Navi Pillay, the first black woman in South Africa to set up a law practice, which she used to defend anti-apartheid activists.

Life is 'An Unsolicited Gift', given by parents to their children.

The single-mother families of the isolated high-rise community under the shadow of the Lyderhorn, Bergen's great mountain - steep, dark and oppressive - were being robbed, terrorized and molested by a teenage gang led by the psychopath, Joker, who looked like a priest, but with the eyes of a tiger and the teeth of a decaying corpse.

Dominique Manotti is back on form with a tale of intrigue and corruption. A call-girl whose black book lists her elite international clients is found murdered in an underground garage; and, a plane bound for Iran laden with illegal arms disappears from the skies over Turkey.

After a year of dead end jobs and killing time, Scottie comes to a decision that will change his life forever.

Detective Varg Veum's adventures lead him into a dark world of privileged teenage girls who have been drawn into drugs and prostitution. The situation worsens when the local judge is discovered in a luxury hotel, dead and clad only in women's lingerie.

The first published novel by the award-winning, bestselling and acclaimed Michael Arditti