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Great Expectations | HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make...

The War of the Worlds | HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood ...

The Making of Poetry. Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels | It was the most extraordinary year. In a book brimming with poetry and nature writing, biography and adventure, Adam Nicols...

Meet the Georgians. Epic Tales from Britain's Wildest Century | Anne Bonny and Mary Read, pirate queens of the Caribbean Tipu Sultan, the Indian ruler who kept the British at bay Olaudah Equiano, the ...

A Curious Boy. The Making of a Scientist | What makes a scientist? Charming, funny and wise, in this memoir Richard Fortey shows how restless curiosity about the natural world led him to become a lead...

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...

Pride and Prejudice | 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.' Elizabeth Bennet, full of vivacity and wit, lives a quiet c...

A Preface to Paradise Lost | In Preface to Paradise Lost, C. S. Lewis presents an illuminating reflection on John Milton's Paradise Lost, the seminal classic that profoundly influenced Christian thoug...

Our Bodies, Their Battlefield. What War Does to Women | From award-winning war reporter and co-author of I Am Malala, this is the first major account to address the scale of rape and sexual violence i...

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. ...

Woodsman | Ben Law’s incredible sense of the land and his respect for age old traditions offers a wonderful insight into the life of Prickly Nut Wood. Having travelled to Papua New Guinea and the Amaz...

Everything in Moderation | Writing on everything from a defence of suburban life and moderate politics to big ideas and pop culture, Daniel Finkelstein is one of the UK’s most entertaining and widely ...

Noise | From the world-leaders in strategic thinking and the multi-million copy bestselling authors of Thinking Fast and Slow and Nudge, the next big book to change the way you think. We like to think...

The Wood Age. How Wood Shaped the Whole of Human History | When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world. How did the descendants of small arboreal...

Give. Charity and the Art of Living Generously | From the founder of Mary’s Meals and the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Shed That Fed a Million Children, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow travels the ...

Nein! Standing up to Hitler 1935–1944 | In his last days, Adolf Hitler raged in his bunker that he had been betrayed by his own people, defeated from the inside. In part, he was right. By 1945, his ar...

To Catch A King. Charles II's Great Escape | How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history? In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded in London outside h...

Shakespeare | From bestselling author Bill Bryson comes this compelling short biography of William Shakespeare, our greatest dramatist and poet. Examining centuries of myths, half-truths and downright...

Beak, Tooth and Claw. Why We Must Live With Predators | Foxes, buzzards, crows, badgers, weasels, seals, kites - Britain and Ireland's predators are impressive and diverse and they capture our collect...

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...

Pacific. The Ocean of the Future | Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the world’s largest body of water, and – in matters economic, politic...

Later... with Jools Holland. 30 Years of Music, Magic and Mayhem | Dave Grohl and Alicia Keys loved it, Bjork treasured it, Ed Sheeran’s life was changed by it, Kano felt at home while Nick Cave was h...

Last Call at the Hotel Imperial. The Reporters Who Took on a World at War | They were an astonishing group: glamorous, gutsy, and irreverent to the bone. As cub reporters in the 1920s, they roamed acr...

Ted Hughes. The Unauthorised Life | Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He is one of Britain’s most important poets, a poet of claws and cages: Jaguar,...

The Modern Flower Press. Preserving the Beauty of Nature | A contemporary, beautifully illustrated book on flowers, flower pressing and arranging. In The Modern Flower Press, innovative florists Melis...

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, ...

In the Shadow of Vesuvius. A Life of Pliny | In a dazzling, lively new literary biography, Daisy Dunn weaves together the lives of two Roman greats: Pliny the Elder, author of Natural History, and his...

The Secret Lives of Elephants. Birth, Death and Family in the World of the Giants | Elephants are as unique as people. They can be clever and curious or headstrong and impulsive, shy or sociable. Lear...

Jog On. How Running Saved My Life | Divorced and struggling with deep-rooted mental health problems, Bella Mackie ended her twenties in tears. She could barely find the strength to get off the sofa, l...

My Broken Language. A Memoir | Born in Philadelphia to a Jewish father and an enigmatic Puerto Rican mother, Quiara Alegria Hudes had a love-and-trouble-filled upbringing, haunted by the unspoken, unt...

The Problem of Pain | For centuries people have been tormented by one question above all - 'If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?' And what of the suffering ...

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...

What’s Your Type? The Story of the Myers-Briggs, and How Personality Testing Took Over the World | An unprecedented history of the personality test conceived a century ago by a mother and her daughter...

Islands of Abandonment. Life in the Post-Human Landscape | This is a book about abandoned places: ghost towns and exclusion zones, no man’s lands and fortress islands – and what happens when nature is...

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. ’I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have...

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 ...

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush | A classic of travel writing, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush is Eric Newby’s iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses on ...

How to Be a Christian. Reflections & Essays | How to Be a Christian brings together the best of Lewis’s insights on Christian practice and its expression in our daily lives. Cultivated from his many e...

How to Speak Whale. A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication | A thrilling investigation into the pioneering world of animal communication, where big data and artificial intelligence are chang...

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...

SAS Survival Guide. The Ultimate Guide to Surviving Anywhere | The Ultimate Guide to Surviving Anywhere The Collins Gem SAS Survival Guide is the pocket companion for adventurers everywhere. From maki...

We Were Dreamers. An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story | The star of Marvel’s first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story of being a Chinese immigr...

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...

Sextant. A Voyage Guided by the Stars and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans | In the tradition of Dava Sobel's 'Longitude' comes sailing expert David Barrie's compelling and dramatic tale of inven...

Enemies Within. Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain | What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands? With access to recently released papers...

The Last Leonardo. A Masterpiece, A Mystery and the Dirty World of Art | In 2017 the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. But is it a real da Vinci? In a thrilling narrative built on formidab...

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...

Lady Chatterley's Lover | Lady Chatterley's Lover was banned on its publication in 1928, creating a storm of controversy. Lawrence tells the story of Constance Chatterley’s marriage to Sir Clifford, a...

Wuthering Heights | 'Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a devil?' Heathcliff, an orphan, wild and unkempt, is taken in by Mr Earnshaw and raised as his son at Wuthering Heigh...

The Prince | HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'We have declared before that it is not only expedient but necessary for a prince to take care hi...

Phosphorescence. On Awe, Wonder & Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark | Julia Baird’s intimate study of phosphorescence is full of wisdom and joy; a roadmap for rediscovering our inner li...

The Frayed Atlantic Edge. A Historian's Journey from Shetland to the Channel | Over the course of a year, leading historian and nature writer David Gange kayaked the weather-ravaged coasts of Atlantic...

The Black Ridge. Amongst the Cuillin of Skye | Rising a kilometre out of the storm-scoured waters around Scotland’s Isle of Skye is a dark battlement of pinnacles and ridgelines: the Cuillin. Plagued ...

The Lost Rainforests of Britain | From the bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgotten rainforests – and an inspiring intervention to help restore them to the pla...

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 Waves | HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. There was a star riding through clouds one night, and I said to the star, 'Consume me' Six friends traverse t...

The Palace. From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court | For centuries, Hampton Court has been a place of power, scandal and intrigue: a stage for events that shaped the na...

Sea People. In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific | For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle stretching from Hawaii...

Elizabethans. A History of How Modern Britain Was Forged | The Story of Britain during the long reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Find out how Britain changed in this entrancing, lively portrait of Britain...

Screwtape Proposes a Toast | The only official sequel, penned by Lewis himself, to the ever-popular ‘Screwtape Letters’ – published alongside other short essays. One of the most popular books ever to ...

Christian Reflections | A collection of Lewis’s essays against ‘the new morality’ – a fine collection representing Lewis at his most brilliant. Published shortly after his death, aiming to make availa...

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...

In the Thick of It. The Private Diaries of a Minister | As Minister of State at the Foreign Office, Alan Duncan was once described as Boris Johnson’s ‘pooper-scooper’. For two years, he deputised for ...

Secret Pigeon Service. Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe | Between 1941 and 1944, sixteen thousand plucky homing pigeons were dropped in an arc from Bordeaux to Copenha...