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Sanditon & Other Stories | 'Those who tell their own story, you know, must be listened to with caution.' When young Charlotte Heywood arrives in the seaside resort of Sanditon, a town seeking to reinv...

Waves Across the South. A New History of Revolution and Empire | Starting from the ocean and from the forgotten histories of ocean-facing communities, this is a new history of the making of our world....

Tender is the Night | 'Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.' American Dick Diver and his wife Nicole are the epitome of 1920s elegance and sophistication, entert...

The Life of P.T. Barnum | HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Meet the greatest entertainer of the 19th Century… In 1834, desperate to create a be...

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 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...

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...

Autonomy. The Quest to Build the Driverless Car and How It Will Reshape Our World | From the ultimate insider – a former General Motors executive and current advisor to the Google Self-Driving Car pro...

Beyond. The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space | 9.07 a.m., April 12, 1961. A top-secret rocket site in the USSR. A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsul...

Microadventures. Local Discoveries for Great Escapes | Adventure - something that's new and exhilarating, outside your comfort zone. Adventures change you and how you see the world, and all you need i...

Palaces of Revolution. Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court | The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe...

Net Zero. How We Stop Causing Climate Change | The inconvenient truth is that we are causing the climate crisis with our carbon intensive lifestyles and that fixing - or even just slowing - it will af...

Frankenstein | HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘The rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimme...

Gareth Malone's Guide to Classical Music | Have you ever been carried away by a piece of classical music? In this funny, evocative, personal book, previously published as 'Music for the People: The Pl...

The Sign of the Four | HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible whatever rem...

Moby Dick | HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from h...

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...

The Valley of Fear | HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'In calling Moriarty a criminal you are uttering libel in the eyes of the law-and there l...

The Wolf Within. The Astonishing Evolution of Man's Best Friend | The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the astonishing ...

How to Grow a Human. Reprogramming Cells and Redesigning Life | A cutting-edge examination of what it means to be human and to have a 'self' in the face of new scientific developments in genetic editi...

Snow Widows. Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition Through the Eyes of the Women They Left Behind | The men of Captain Scott's Polar Party were heroes of their age, enduring tremendous hardships to furth...

The Great Gatsby | 'I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited - they went there' Jay Gatsby's Long I...

Race for Tomorrow. Survival, Innovation and Profit on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis | In this extraordinary journey through twenty-six countries, Simon Mundy meets the people on the front line...

Emma | 'The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself...' Beautiful, rich, self-assured and ...

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 ...

On the Origin of Evolution. Tracing 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea' from Aristotle to DNA | The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charl...

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...

Girl With Dove. A Life Built By Books | Growing up in a dilapidated house by the sea where men were forbidden, Sally's childhood world was filled with mystery and intrigue. Hippies trailed through the...

First Steps. How Walking Upright Made Us Human | Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical development, as it slows us ...

The Universe | Every night, above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out. Diamond planets, zombie stars, black holes heavier than a billion Suns. The cast of characters is extraordinary...

Endless Forms. The Secret World of Wasps | There may be no insect with a worse reputation than the wasp, and none guarding so many undiscovered wonders. Where bees and ants have long been the darlings...

Inspire. Life Lessons from the Wilderness | The latest adventure from bestselling author Ben Fogle explores what we can learn from nature about living well and living wild. What can rowing across the ...

The Wind in The Willows | HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in bo...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass | HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossi...

Frankel. The Greatest Racehorse of All Time and the Sport That Made Him | In horse racing greatness is defined by speed. Being the second fastest counts for little. You have to win. And win. And keep ...

The Making of Us. Why School Matters | In a brilliant blend of memoir and manifesto, renowned educator Clarissa Farr tells stories from the frontlines of schools to offer vital lessons for the way we ...

Symphony in C. Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything | An enchanting biography of the most resonant – and most necessary – chemical element on Earth. Carbon. It is the building block of ever...

Lady Chatterley’s Lover | HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. Lady Chatterley's Lover was banned on its publication in 1928, creating a storm of controversy....

Viking London | London was reborn in the fires of the Viking Age, transformed by immigrants and natives, kings and commoners, warriors and saints. In this short history, bestselling historian Thomas W...

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...

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...

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...

Seeing Further. The Story of Science and the Royal | Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard Fortey, Steve ...

Self-Confidence. 10 Lessons for Life in the Age of Anxiety | An essential read for anyone who has encountered a crisis of confidence. Where does self-confidence come from? How does it work? Why are so...

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?' A heart-warming tale of love, sisterhood and hardship during the New England ...

Arabian Nights | HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘So he rose and lighted one lamp after another, till he had lighted the whole eighty and the palace ...

Sense and Sensibility | 'I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy; but like every body else it must be in my own way.' When the Dashwood family are forced into more modest circumstances...

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 Splendid and the Vile. Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Bombing of London | A startling, gripping portrait of what it was like to be alive in Britain during the Blitz, and what it was lik...

The Sloth Lemur's Song. Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present | A moving account of Madagascar told by a researcher who has spent over fifty years investigating the mysteries of this ...

Ten Survival Skills for a World in Flux | To thrive in the twenty-first century, we all need to understand the challenges coming our way. And start adapting, now. We all know there are major, overlapp...

Soldiers. Great Stories of War and Peace | Soldiers is a very personal gathering of sparkling, gripping tales by many writers, about men and women who have borne arms, reflecting bestselling historian...

A History of Water. Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History | From award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true historical detective story set in si...

Cops and Robbers. The Story of the British Police Car | TV presenter and all-round car nut Ant Anstead takes the reader on a journey that mirrors the development of the motor car itself from a stutter...

Beautiful News. Positive Trends, Uplifting Stats, Creative Solutions | In this fascinating follow-up to the bestselling Information is Beautiful and Knowledge is Beautiful, the king of infographics Da...

The Hound of the Baskervilles | ‘It came with the wind through the silence of the night, a long, deep mutter, then a rising howl, and then the sad moan in which it died away. Again and again it sounde...

Letters from a Stoic | 'Where you arrive does not matter so much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there.' Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4BC-AD 65) is one of the most eminent Roman philosophers....

The Last Grain Race | An engaging and informative first-hand account of the last ‘grain race’ of maritime history, from respected travel writer Eric Newby. In 1939, a young Eric Newby – later renowned...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | ‘Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was r...

The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu. The Quest for this Storied City and the Race to Save Its Treasures | The fabled city of Timbuktu has captured the Western imagination for centuries. The search for this...

The American Duchess. The Real Wallis Simpson | The intimate biography of one of the most misunderstood women in British royal history. Life has always been made difficult for those marrying into Engl...

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...

Blonde Venus | Madou is the most beautiful woman in the world. Discovered in a Berlin cabaret in the roaring twenties, she is brought to the glamour of Los Angeles. She becomes a superstar of the silv...

The Secret Life of the Mind. How Our Brain Thinks, Feels and Decides | • Where do our thoughts come from? • How can we manipulate our dreams? • What is the role of the unconscious? • How do we make de...