Quick Reads

Quick Reads, 2006. — 106 pages. Molly Sullivan said that the new baby was a little star. She was no trouble at all and she was always smiling...so she became known as Star. Star Sullivan just wanted everyone to be happy - her father to stop gambling, her mother not to work so hard, her brother to stay out of trouble, her sister to stop worrying about every little thing she ate....

Quick Reads, 2006. — 106 pages. Molly Sullivan said that the new baby was a little star. She was no trouble at all and she was always smiling...so she became known as Star. Star Sullivan just wanted everyone to be happy - her father to stop gambling, her mother not to work so hard, her brother to stay out of trouble, her sister to stop worrying about every little thing she ate....

Quick Reads, 2011. A sweet, funny story about love and work. What would you do if you won the Lottery? It was just after ten on a Sunday night in May and thirty-one-year-old Ian Greening was sitting in the Red Lion with his girlfriend Emma Kavanagh having one of their amusing but daft conversations. How much are we talking? asked Ian. Many millions or just the one? Emma...

Quick Reads, 2011. A sweet, funny story about love and work. What would you do if you won the Lottery? It was just after ten on a Sunday night in May and thirty-one-year-old Ian Greening was sitting in the Red Lion with his girlfriend Emma Kavanagh having one of their amusing but daft conversations. How much are we talking? asked Ian. Many millions or just the one? Emma...

Quick Reads, 2011. A sweet, funny story about love and work. What would you do if you won the Lottery? It was just after ten on a Sunday night in May and thirty-one-year-old Ian Greening was sitting in the Red Lion with his girlfriend Emma Kavanagh having one of their amusing but daft conversations. How much are we talking? asked Ian. Many millions or just the one? Emma...

Quick Reads, 2011. A sweet, funny story about love and work. What would you do if you won the Lottery? It was just after ten on a Sunday night in May and thirty-one-year-old Ian Greening was sitting in the Red Lion with his girlfriend Emma Kavanagh having one of their amusing but daft conversations. How much are we talking? asked Ian. Many millions or just the one? Emma...

Quick Reads, 2011. The second novel, and first quick read title, from bestselling author Cathy Glass. My Dad's a Policeman is a dramatic and engaging story of a young boy with an alcoholic mother and no knowledge of his father. Lonely, bullied and desperate for a life of happiness and security he tells everyone he meets his dad's a policeman. Fast-paced and compelling, this...

Quick Reads, 2011. The second novel, and first quick read title, from bestselling author Cathy Glass. My Dad's a Policeman is a dramatic and engaging story of a young boy with an alcoholic mother and no knowledge of his father. Lonely, bullied and desperate for a life of happiness and security he tells everyone he meets his dad's a policeman. Fast-paced and compelling, this...

Quick Reads, 2011. The second novel, and first quick read title, from bestselling author Cathy Glass. My Dad's a Policeman is a dramatic and engaging story of a young boy with an alcoholic mother and no knowledge of his father. Lonely, bullied and desperate for a life of happiness and security he tells everyone he meets his dad's a policeman. Fast-paced and compelling, this...

Orion, 2013. Quick Reads Praise for Veronica Henry ‘A perfect summer delight’ The Sun ‘Great fun and I raced through it...entertaining and very readable’ Daily Mail ‘Exuberant novel of love, lust, hopes and dreams’ Woman & Home ‘A great beach companion’ Daily Star ‘First-class chick-lit and a great beach read’ Sunday Express ‘A riotous summer romp’ Closer ‘Warm and brilliantly...

Quick Reads, 2013. Praise for Veronica Henry ‘A perfect summer delight’ The Sun ‘Great fun and I raced through it...entertaining and very readable’ Daily Mail ‘Exuberant novel of love, lust, hopes and dreams’ Woman & Home ‘A great beach companion’ Daily Star ‘First-class chick-lit and a great beach read’ Sunday Express ‘A riotous summer romp’ Closer ‘Warm and brilliantly...

Quick Reads, 2013. Praise for Veronica Henry ‘A perfect summer delight’ The Sun ‘Great fun and I raced through it...entertaining and very readable’ Daily Mail ‘Exuberant novel of love, lust, hopes and dreams’ Woman & Home ‘A great beach companion’ Daily Star ‘First-class chick-lit and a great beach read’ Sunday Express ‘A riotous summer romp’ Closer ‘Warm and brilliantly...

Quick Reads, 2013. Praise for Veronica Henry ‘A perfect summer delight’ The Sun ‘Great fun and I raced through it...entertaining and very readable’ Daily Mail ‘Exuberant novel of love, lust, hopes and dreams’ Woman & Home ‘A great beach companion’ Daily Star ‘First-class chick-lit and a great beach read’ Sunday Express ‘A riotous summer romp’ Closer

Orion, 2013. Quick Reads Praise for Veronica Henry ‘A perfect summer delight’ The Sun ‘Great fun and I raced through it...entertaining and very readable’ Daily Mail ‘Exuberant novel of love, lust, hopes and dreams’ Woman & Home ‘A great beach companion’ Daily Star ‘First-class chick-lit and a great beach read’ Sunday Express ‘A riotous summer romp’ Closer

Quick Reads, 2012. Conn Iggulden is one of the most successful authors of historical fiction writing today. His two No. 1 best-selling series, on Julius Caesar and on the Mongol Khans of Central Asia, tell the stories of how the greatest empires of their day began. Conn Iggulden is co-author of The Dangerous Book for Boys. He lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and their...

Quick Reads, 2012. Conn Iggulden is one of the most successful authors of historical fiction writing today. His two No. 1 best-selling series, on Julius Caesar and on the Mongol Khans of Central Asia, tell the stories of how the greatest empires of their day began. Conn Iggulden is co-author of The Dangerous Book for Boys. He lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and their...

Quick Reads, 2012. Conn Iggulden is one of the most successful authors of historical fiction writing today. His two No. 1 best-selling series, on Julius Caesar and on the Mongol Khans of Central Asia, tell the stories of how the greatest empires of their day began. Conn Iggulden is co-author of The Dangerous Book for Boys. He lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and their...

Quick Reads, 2012. Conn Iggulden is one of the most successful authors of historical fiction writing today. His two No. 1 best-selling series, on Julius Caesar and on the Mongol Khans of Central Asia, tell the stories of how the greatest empires of their day began. Conn Iggulden is co-author of The Dangerous Book for Boys. He lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and their...

Accent Press, 2006. Quick Reads Dai Morgan has the body of a man and the mind of a child. He lived with his mother in the Mid Wales village of Llan, next door to bright, beautiful 19 year old Anna Harris. The vicar found Anna's naked, battered body in the churchyard one morning. The police discovered Anna's bloodstained earring in Dai's pocket. The judge gave Dai life. After...

Quick Reads, 2006. Dai Morgan has the body of a man and the mind of a child. He lived with his mother in the Mid Wales village of Llan, next door to bright, beautiful 19 year old Anna Harris. The vicar found Anna's naked, battered body in the churchyard one morning. The police discovered Anna's bloodstained earring in Dai's pocket. The judge gave Dai life. After ten years in...

Accent Press, 2006. Quick Reads Dai Morgan has the body of a man and the mind of a child. He lived with his mother in the Mid Wales village of Llan, next door to bright, beautiful 19 year old Anna Harris. The vicar found Anna's naked, battered body in the churchyard one morning. The police discovered Anna's bloodstained earring in Dai's pocket. The judge gave Dai life. After...

Accent Press, 2006. Quick Reads Dai Morgan has the body of a man and the mind of a child. He lived with his mother in the Mid Wales village of Llan, next door to bright, beautiful 19 year old Anna Harris. The vicar found Anna's naked, battered body in the churchyard one morning. The police discovered Anna's bloodstained earring in Dai's pocket. The judge gave Dai life. After...

Quick Reads, 2011. A comedy of Russian gangsters, town planners and a dog called Nigel. Malcolm Thomas is not happy. The view he loves is about to be blocked by an ugly building. He decides to take action and forms a protest group. Then things go badly wrong and Malcolm finds himself running for his life. Along the way he gets mixed up with corrupt town planners, violent...

Quick Reads, 2011. A comedy of Russian gangsters, town planners and a dog called Nigel. Malcolm Thomas is not happy. The view he loves is about to be blocked by an ugly building. He decides to take action and forms a protest group. Then things go badly wrong and Malcolm finds himself running for his life. Along the way he gets mixed up with corrupt town planners, violent...

Quick Reads, 2011. A comedy of Russian gangsters, town planners and a dog called Nigel. Malcolm Thomas is not happy. The view he loves is about to be blocked by an ugly building. He decides to take action and forms a protest group. Then things go badly wrong and Malcolm finds himself running for his life. Along the way he gets mixed up with corrupt town planners, violent...

Quick Reads, 2011. A comedy of Russian gangsters, town planners and a dog called Nigel. Malcolm Thomas is not happy. The view he loves is about to be blocked by an ugly building. He decides to take action and forms a protest group. Then things go badly wrong and Malcolm finds himself running for his life. Along the way he gets mixed up with corrupt town planners, violent...

Simon & Schuster 2012. Quick Reads Barbara Hardy stared out of her office window at the heavy grey sky. It had been raining all day and London looked dreary and depressing. Without any warning, her heart suddenly started to beat wildly and she found it hard to catch her breath. Before she knew it, she was in the middle of a full-blown panic attack. She tried to breathe deeply,...

Quick Reads 2012. Barbara Hardy stared out of her office window at the heavy grey sky. It had been raining all day and London looked dreary and depressing. Without any warning, her heart suddenly started to beat wildly and she found it hard to catch her breath. Before she knew it, she was in the middle of a full-blown panic attack. She tried to breathe deeply, she tried to...

Simon & Schuster 2012. Quick Reads Barbara Hardy stared out of her office window at the heavy grey sky. It had been raining all day and London looked dreary and depressing. Without any warning, her heart suddenly started to beat wildly and she found it hard to catch her breath. Before she knew it, she was in the middle of a full-blown panic attack. She tried to breathe deeply,...

Simon & Schuster 2012. Quick Reads Barbara Hardy stared out of her office window at the heavy grey sky. It had been raining all day and London looked dreary and depressing. Without any warning, her heart suddenly started to beat wildly and she found it hard to catch her breath. Before she knew it, she was in the middle of a full-blown panic attack. She tried to breathe deeply,...

Quick Reads, 2009. — 97 pages. It is March 1928 . The Great War has been over for ten years, but freddie still hasn't recovered from the loss of his brother. Even now, on holiday in south-west France, he cannot escape his grief. When his car crashes, Freddiy stumbles down from the hills to a village nearby. There he meets Marie, a beauutiful young woman, who is also mourning...

Quick Reads, 2009. — 97 pages. It is March 1928 . The Great War has been over for ten years, but freddie still hasn't recovered from the loss of his brother. Even now, on holiday in south-west France, he cannot escape his grief. When his car crashes, Freddiy stumbles down from the hills to a village nearby. There he meets Marie, a beauutiful young woman, who is also mourning...

Quick Reads, 2012. From the number one bestselling author comes a swashbuckling tale of mutiny and murder in paradise .Even Paradise can turn into a nightmare .The Mutiny on the Bounty is the most famous uprising in naval history. Led by Fletcher Christian, a desperate crew cast sadistic Captain Bligh adrift. They swap cruelty and the lash for easy living in the island heaven...

Quick Reads, 2012. From the number one bestselling author comes a swashbuckling tale of mutiny and murder in paradise .Even Paradise can turn into a nightmare .The Mutiny on the Bounty is the most famous uprising in naval history. Led by Fletcher Christian, a desperate crew cast sadistic Captain Bligh adrift. They swap cruelty and the lash for easy living in the island heaven...

Quick Reads, 2012. From the number one bestselling author comes a swashbuckling tale of mutiny and murder in paradise .Even Paradise can turn into a nightmare .The Mutiny on the Bounty is the most famous uprising in naval history. Led by Fletcher Christian, a desperate crew cast sadistic Captain Bligh adrift. They swap cruelty and the lash for easy living in the island heaven...

Quick Reads, 2012. From the number one bestselling author comes a swashbuckling tale of mutiny and murder in paradise .Even Paradise can turn into a nightmare .The Mutiny on the Bounty is the most famous uprising in naval history. Led by Fletcher Christian, a desperate crew cast sadistic Captain Bligh adrift. They swap cruelty and the lash for easy living in the island heaven...

Quick Reads, 2011. Mega-rich restaurant owner Jack Barnes and his second wife Zee are very much in love. However, their plans for Valentine’s Day are about to be torn apart by the most violent murder. Who is the strange figure plotting this sick crime? Who hates Jack that much? There are plenty of suspects living in Jack’s fancy block of flats. Is it one of them, or could it be...

Quick Reads, 2011. Mega-rich restaurant owner Jack Barnes and his second wife Zee are very much in love. However, their plans for Valentine’s Day are about to be torn apart by the most violent murder. Who is the strange figure plotting this sick crime? Who hates Jack that much? There are plenty of suspects living in Jack’s fancy block of flats. Is it one of them, or could it be...

Quick Reads, 2011. Mega-rich restaurant owner Jack Barnes and his second wife Zee are very much in love. However, their plans for Valentine’s Day are about to be torn apart by the most violent murder. Who is the strange figure plotting this sick crime? Who hates Jack that much? There are plenty of suspects living in Jack’s fancy block of flats. Is it one of them, or could it be...

Quick Reads, 2011. Mega-rich restaurant owner Jack Barnes and his second wife Zee are very much in love. However, their plans for Valentine’s Day are about to be torn apart by the most violent murder. Who is the strange figure plotting this sick crime? Who hates Jack that much? There are plenty of suspects living in Jack’s fancy block of flats. Is it one of them, or could it be...

Quick Reads, 2009. The room was briefly lit up as the Doctor left the TARDIS. Then he shut the doors of his time machine behind him, and the room became dark again. The Doctor started to walk forward, but stumbled. He pulled a torch out of his pocket and switched it on. Pointing the beam at his feet, he looked to see what had tripped him up. There on the ground was a pair of...

Quick Reads, 2009. The room was briefly lit up as the Doctor left the TARDIS. Then he shut the doors of his time machine behind him, and the room became dark again. The Doctor started to walk forward, but stumbled. He pulled a torch out of his pocket and switched it on. Pointing the beam at his feet, he looked to see what had tripped him up. There on the ground was a pair of...

Quick Reads, 2009. The room was briefly lit up as the Doctor left the TARDIS. Then he shut the doors of his time machine behind him, and the room became dark again. The Doctor started to walk forward, but stumbled. He pulled a torch out of his pocket and switched it on. Pointing the beam at his feet, he looked to see what had tripped him up. There on the ground was a pair of...

Quick Reads, 2009. The room was briefly lit up as the Doctor left the TARDIS. Then he shut the doors of his time machine behind him, and the room became dark again. The Doctor started to walk forward, but stumbled. He pulled a torch out of his pocket and switched it on. Pointing the beam at his feet, he looked to see what had tripped him up. There on the ground was a pair of...

UK: Rundom Hose (Arrow Bks.; Export e. edition), 2006, - 87(45x2) pages. What you do in childhood may come back to haunt you. Stealing things from people who had upset her was something Polly did quite a lot. There was her Aunt Pauline; a girl at school; a boyfriend who left. And there was the man on the plane… Humiliated and scared by a total stranger Polly does what she...

Quick Reads, 2006. — 86 pages. "Ruth Rendell knows how to make your hair stand up straight on your head" (Maeve Binchy) Stealing things from people who had upset her was something Polly did quite a lot. There was her Aunt Pauline; a girl at school; a boyfriend who left her. And there was the man on the plane. Humiliated and scared, by a total stranger, Polly does what she...

Quick Reads, 2006. — 86 pages. "Ruth Rendell knows how to make your hair stand up straight on your head" (Maeve Binchy) Stealing things from people who had upset her was something Polly did quite a lot. There was her Aunt Pauline; a girl at school; a boyfriend who left her. And there was the man on the plane. Humiliated and scared, by a total stranger, Polly does what she...

Quick Reads. Equipped with space suits, golf clubs and a flag, the Doctor and Rose are planning to live it up on the Moon, Apollo-mission style. But the TARDIS has other plans, landing them instead in a village on the south coast of England; a picture-postcard sort of place where nothing much happens...until now. Archaeologists have dug up a Roman mosaic, dating from the year...

Quick Reads. Equipped with space suits, golf clubs and a flag, the Doctor and Rose are planning to live it up on the Moon, Apollo-mission style. But the TARDIS has other plans, landing them instead in a village on the south coast of England; a picture-postcard sort of place where nothing much happens...until now. Archaeologists have dug up a Roman mosaic, dating from the year...

Quick Reads. Equipped with space suits, golf clubs and a flag, the Doctor and Rose are planning to live it up on the Moon, Apollo-mission style. But the TARDIS has other plans, landing them instead in a village on the south coast of England; a picture-postcard sort of place where nothing much happens...until now. Archaeologists have dug up a Roman mosaic, dating from the year...

Quick Reads. Equipped with space suits, golf clubs and a flag, the Doctor and Rose are planning to live it up on the Moon, Apollo-mission style. But the TARDIS has other plans, landing them instead in a village on the south coast of England; a picture-postcard sort of place where nothing much happens...until now. Archaeologists have dug up a Roman mosaic, dating from the year...

Quick Reads, 2006. With her debut, The Ice House, Minette Walters won the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey Award for the best first crime novel of 1992. Rapidly establishing a reputation as one of the most exciting crime novelists writing today, her second novel, The Sculptress, was acclaimed by critics as one of the most compelling and powerful novels of the year and...

Quick Reads, 2006. With her debut, The Ice House, Minette Walters won the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey Award for the best first crime novel of 1992. Rapidly establishing a reputation as one of the most exciting crime novelists writing today, her second novel, The Sculptress, was acclaimed by critics as one of the most compelling and powerful novels of the year and...

Quick Reads, 2006. With her debut, The Ice House, Minette Walters won the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey Award for the best first crime novel of 1992. Rapidly establishing a reputation as one of the most exciting crime novelists writing today, her second novel, The Sculptress, was acclaimed by critics as one of the most compelling and powerful novels of the year and...

Quick Reads, 2006. With her debut, The Ice House, Minette Walters won the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey Award for the best first crime novel of 1992. Rapidly establishing a reputation as one of the most exciting crime novelists writing today, her second novel, The Sculptress, was acclaimed by critics as one of the most compelling and powerful novels of the year and...