Каталог бренда William Collins

Hillbilly Elegy. A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis | ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis – that of white working-class Americans. The decline of thi...

The Trials of Life. A Natural History of Animal Behaviour | The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough’s classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology, ...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so crampe...

The Call of the Road. The History of Cycle Road Racing | Eddy Merckx. Fausto Coppi. Jacques Anquetil. Bernard Hinault. Beryl Burton. Marianne Vos. Since the first road race in May 1869, revealed here ...

The Pilgrim’s Regress | One of C. S. Lewis’ works of fiction, or more specifically allegory, this book is clearly modelled upon Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, as Lewis cleverly satirizes different secti...

Patrick O'Brian. A Very Private Life | An intimate portrait of Patrick O’Brian, written by his stepson Nikolai Tolstoy. Patrick O’Brian was one of the greatest British novelists of the twentieth centu...

Other Minds Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life | What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What...

Mad about Shakespeare. From Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room | From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how his themes can untan...

The Art of War | HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The ancient Chinese art of warfare written by military strategist Sun Tzu in the 5th century ...

In Search of One Last Song. Britain's disappearing birds and the people trying to save them | Our wild places and wildlife are disappearing at a terrifying rate. This is a story about going in search ...

Persuasion | 'You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever.' Anne Elliot is persuaded to reject a marriage proposal from...

Raven and Other Selected Poems | HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ' "…Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!" Quo...

Black Gold. The History of How Coal Made Britain | Coal is the commodity that made Britain. Dirty and polluting though it is, this black rock has acted as a midwife to genius. It drove industry, relig...

The Well Gardened Mind. Rediscovering Nature in the Modern World | How can gardening relieve stress and help us look after our mental health? What lies behind the restorative power of the natural worl...

I Used to Live Here Once. The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys | An intimate, revealing and profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea. An obsessive and troubled genius, ...

Metazoa. Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness | The scuba-diving philosopher explores the origins of animal consciousness. Dip below the ocean's surface and you are soon confronted by forms of ...

A Greedy Man in a Hungry World. Why (Almost) Everything You Thought You Knew About Food is Wrong | Now with a new epilogue, the UK's most influential food and drink journalist shoots a few sacred cows...

Stressed, Unstressed. Classic Poems to Ease the Mind | Can you be re-lit by poetry? This little book offers everyone one of the oldest of all remedies for stress: the reading of poetry. Intended to he...

The Heartbeat of Trees | A powerful return to the forest, where trees have heartbeats and roots are like brains that extend underground. Where the colour green calms us, and the forest sharpens our se...

Wuthering Heights | 'Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a devil?' Set on the bleak moors of Yorkshire, Lockwood is forced to seek shelter at Wuthering Heights, the home of hi...

Cycle of Lies. The Fall of Lance Armstrong | A fly-on-the-wall account of the greatest drama in modern sporting history by the New York Times cycling correspondent. As Lance Armstrong’s precipitous fa...

Hollow Places. An Unusual History of Land and Legend | A luminous journey through a thousand years of folklore and English history. Once upon a time in a Hertfordshire field, an ancient yew tree hid a...

Treasure Island | 'Fifteen men on the dead man's chest –Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!' When young Jim Hawkins finds an old map showing the location of a hoard of buried treasure, he joins the crew of...

What Does Jeremy Think? Jeremy Heywood and the Making of Modern Britain | As a young civil servant, Jeremy Heywood's insightful questioning of the status quo pushed him to the centre of political powe...

Protestants. The Radicals Who Made the Modern World | Five hundred years ago Protestant Christianity began with one stubborn monk – today, it includes a billion people across the globe. The upheaval M...

The Frozen River. Seeking Silence in the Himalaya | In 1976 James Crowden left his career in the British army and travelled to Ladakh in the Northern Himalaya, one of the most remote parts of the worl...

Collins Botanical Bible. A Practical Guide to Wild and Garden Plants | The Botanical Bible tells the story of plants and flowers, beginning with an overview of the plant kingdom and the basics of bota...

Crucible of Hell. Okinawa. The Last Great Battle of the Second World War | From award-winning historian Saul David, an action-packed and powerful new narrative of the Battle of Okinawa - the last grea...

Catastrophe. Europe Goes to War 1914 | The Amazon History Book of the Year 2013 is a magisterial chronicle of the calamity that befell Europe in 1914 as the continent shifted from the glamour of the E...

The Planets | A companion book to the critically acclaimed BBC series. The bestselling authors of Wonders of the Universe are back with another blockbuster, a groundbreaking exploration of our Solar S...

Animal Farm | HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ’All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others’ The animals at Manor Farm have had ...

Why Dylan Matters | When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan, the literary world was up in arms. How could the world's most prestigious book prize be awarded to a famously cantanke...

The Yellow Wallpaper & Herland | HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever w...

The Secret Garden | HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Where, you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.’ After the sudden death of her wealthy parent...

Journey to the Centre of the Earth | In Verne's science-fiction classic, Professor Lidenbrock chances upon an ancient manuscript and pledges to solve the mysterious coded message that lies within it. ...

The British Are Coming. The War for America 1775 -1777 | In June 1773, King George III attended a grand celebration of his reign over the greatest, richest empire since ancient Rome. Less than two yea...

Lara. The Untold Love Story That Inspired Doctor Zhivago | The heartbreaking story of the passionate love affair between Boris Pasternak and Olga Ivinskaya - the tragic true story that inspired `Docto...

Enough. The Violence Against Women and How to End It | This is a book that calls time on the endless tide of violence against women and the failures of our criminal justice system to respond. From bar...

Catullus' Bedspread. The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet | A biography of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome’s first great poet, a dandy who fell in love with another man’s wife and made it known to the wo...

Through The Looking Glass | Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said: ‘one can’t believe impossible things.’ ‘I dare say you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age I ...

The Saboteur. True Adventures of the Gentleman Commando Who Took on the Nazis | In the tradition of 'Agent Zigzag' comes a breathtaking biography of WWII's 'Scarlet Pimpernel' as fast-paced and emotio...

Tess of the D’Urbervilles | HarperCollins is pround to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘My life looks as if it had been wasted for want of chances! When I see what you know, w...

Preparing for Easter. Fifty Devotional Readings | Together in one special volume, selections from the best of beloved, bestselling author C. S. Lewis’s classic works for readers contemplating the ‘gra...

The Picture of Dorian Gray | ‘The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.’ When Basil Hallward paints the portrait of young, handsome Dorian Gray, he falls prey to his dazzling beauty. ...

Why Bowie Matters | A unique, moving and dazzlingly researched exploration of the places, people, musicians, writers and filmmakers that inspired David Jones to become David Bowie, what we can learn f...

Hit Refresh. A Memoir by Microsoft's CEO | The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone Microsoft’s CEO tells the inside story of the company’s continuing transfor...

Black Beauty | HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer...

Noise. A Flaw in Human Judgment | Wherever there is human judgement, there is noise. ‘Noise may be the most important book I've read in more than a decade. A genuinely new idea so exceedingly importan...

The Spanish Civil War. Reaction, Revolution and Revenge | A rousing and full-blooded account of the Spanish Civil War and the rise to prominence of General Franco. No modern conflict has inflamed the ...

Algorithms to Live By. The Computer Science of Human Decisions | A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives. In this dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, a...

Nehru. The Debates that Defined India | A history of Nehru that dives deep into the debates of his era to understand his ideology – and that of his contemporaries and opponents, asking what India woul...

Bloody Brilliant People. The Couples and Partnerships That History Forgot | From rivals propelling each other forwards to friends combining their talents, it's clear: often two heads are better than o...

Woodlands | ‘Trees are wildlife just as deer or primroses are wildlife. Each species has its own agenda and its own interactions with human activities …’ Written by one of Britain’s best-known natural...

Flash Crash. A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History | 'Not just a readable, pacey account of an extraordinary individual and his quixotic quest ... but also...

It All Adds Up. The Story of People and Mathematic | From Aristotle to Ada Lovelace: a brief history of the mathematical ideas that have forever changed the world and the everyday people and pioneers ...

Uplands And Birds | Ian Newton, author of Farming and Birds and Bird Migration returns to the New Naturalist series with a long awaited look at the uplands and its birds. The uplands of Britain are un...

The General | The most vivid, moving – and devastating – word-portrait of a World War One British commander ever written, here re-introduced by Max Hastings. C.S. Forester’s 1936 masterpiece follows L...

SBS – Silent Warriors. The Authorised Wartime History | Britain's SBS - or Special Boat Service - was the world's first maritime special operations unit. Founded in the dark days of 1940, it started a...

The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War | In January 2003, 28-year-old GCHQ translator Katharine Gun received an email from the US National Security Agency that would turn her world upside down. The message r...

The Young Alexander. The Making of Alexander the Great | This is an astonishing new account of Alexander the Great - one of the most important figures of the ancient world, whose earlier years have un...

Where My Feet Fall. Going for a Walk in Twenty Stories | Where can a walk take you? It goes without saying, walking can connect us to our surroundings and free us from our worries. It can raise our he...

Little Women | 'Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true, and we could live in them?' An endearing tale of hardship, love and sisterhood during the American Civil...

Chastise. The Dambusters | A masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings. Operation Chastise was one of the most extraordinary episodes of the Second...

What I Wish I'd Known When I Was Young. The Art and Science of Growing Up | Loss and adversity are part of the human condition, but an imperfect past isn’t always an indicator of what’s to come. This ...