Books published by Quercus Publishing

An essential guide to the things that shaped our world.

Renowned scholar Dr Efrem Pangui is dead, murdered for his research in Bulikov, the city of stairs. Now only one woman is willing to pursue the truth - but it is likely to cost her everything.

A devastating event rocks a marriage with far-reaching consequences for two families.

Britain's most inspiring young woman shares the next chapter of her astonishing, uplifting personal story.

Scandinavian crime at its most explosive: the New York Times bestselling and CWA International Dagger winning DCI Ewert Grens thriller.

When his byre - and the forty-three cows within it - goes up in flames, Barnabas Kane asks the rural community for help to get his family back on their feet, yet all his requests yield are suspicion and sanctimony. Humiliated, Barnabas grows ever more indignant. Before long this anger makes its mark on an innocent, and toil turns to tragedy.

Steeped in its bleak and beautiful landscape, Mortford is a place of secrets and memories: of bitter divisions and shattered dreams. Gabriel returns to this Dartmoor village where he grew up to come to terms with what he lost as a boy so long ago.

The presenter of the BBC's The Incredible Human Journey and Digging for Britain gives us a new and highly accessible look at our own bodies and into the past to uncover the evolutionary secrets hidden in all of us.

Sean Carroll explores how evolution has shaped nature's wondrous complexity and diversity, from insects to octopuses, from mice to men.

The stunning thriller from the bestselling author of The Broken Shore and Truth.

The Sunday Times bestseller, from Australia's most acclaimed crime and thriller writer.

The perfect summer read - a novel about love and gardening in which a woman, recovering from divorce, rebuilds a lost garden in Oxfordshire and finds healing - and romance - in the process.

A respected historian of medieval Scotland releases the authentic historical Macbeth from a prison of literary and folkloric myth.

An elevator that links the Earth to the Moon; a rare element that promises to solve all the world's energy problems; a secret society that has its own plans for both. This is the limit - how far would you go?

The beautifully crafted love story of a young girl making the biggest decision of her life.

Set in the world of day-time TV cook shows, a wonderfully funny black comedy about the real highs and lows of everyday life.

The thrilling story of the most dramatic and significant of all Nazi man-hunts.

The latest thriller from the ex-Director General of MI5 sees Liz Carlyle tackle vicious terrorism in Belfast.

A winner of six major literary prizes, this rich and haunting novel examines the shadowy Sardinian figure of the Accabadora, exploring the boundaries between mercy-killing and murder.

Eberhard Mock's second macabre investigation in the grim, squalid world of pre-war Breslau.

Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone confronts a town's darkest secrets in the shocking new novel from the New York Times-bestselling author.

From star of Great British Bake Off, heart-wrenching romantic fiction about a scandalous love affair between a professional cook and a high-ranking politician

The incredible untold story of how Cleopatra's orphaned child survived Ancient Rome and found love in the unlikeliest place.

A classic horror story from the bestselling author of The Terror that reinvents the traditional vampire story to become something even darker . . .