Книги William Collins

Restoring the Wild. Rewilding Our Skies, Woods and Waterways | The distinctive white-tailed sea eagle was driven to extinction in Britain more than 200 years ago, but this immense predator is making a...

Compelling Reason | 'You can only find out the rights and wrongs by Reasoning - never by being rude about your opponent's psychology.' For C. S. Lewis, reason and logic are the sensible way to approac...

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 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 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...

The Betrayal of Anne Frank. A Cold Case Investigation | Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept The mystery has haunted generations since the Second World War: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her ...

Feel Good Club. A guide to feeling good and being okay with it when you’re not | Successful entrepreneurs Aimie and Kiera share their trademark of inspiring quotes alongside the wisdom that enabled th...

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...

Other Minds. The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life | Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light o...

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 ...

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...

The Secret War. Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939–1945 | In The Secret War, Max Hastings presents a worldwide cast of characters and extraordinary sagas of intelligence and Resistance to create a new p...

Inventory of a Life Mislaid. An Unreliable Memoir | Inventory of a Life Mislaid follows Marina Warner’s beautiful, penniless young mother Ilia as she leaves southern Italy in 1945 to travel alone to L...

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. ...

Middlemarch | HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neig...

War on Peace. The Decline of American Influence | US foreign policy is undergoing a dire transformation, forever changing America's place in the world. Institutions of diplomacy and development are bl...

Swifts and Us. The Life of the Bird that Sleeps in the Sky | Swifts live almost entirely in the air. They eat, drink, sleep, mate and gather their nesting materials on the wing, fly thousands of miles...

Napoleon. The Man Behind the Myth | A landmark new biography that presents the man behind the many myths. The first writer in English to go back to the original European sources, Adam Zamoyski’s portr...

The Restless Republic. Britain without a Crown | Eleven years when Britain had no king. In 1649 Britain was engulfed by revolution. On a raw January afternoon, the Stuart king, Charles I, was executed...

Great Expectations | HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule’ Pip is an orpha...

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...

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...

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...

Bright Star, Green Light. The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald | ‘For awhile after you quit Keats,’ Fitzgerald once wrote, ‘All other poetry seems to be only whistling ...

Einstein’s Fridge. The Science of Fire, Ice and the Universe | Einstein’s Fridge tells the story of how scientists uncovered the least known and yet most consequential of all the sciences, and learned...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Crazy for Birds. Fascinating and Fabulous Facts | A charming and quirky illustrated exploration of birds and the reasons we love them. From the Common Swift, which can stay in the air continuously wit...

Viking Britain. A History | To many, the word 'Viking' invites visions of violence. But plunder, rape and pillage do not tell the full story. In this fresh narrative history, Thomas Williams, a curato...

Encounters with Euclid. How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World | Euclid's Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In this sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how t...

Mere Christianity | Special 65th Anniversary Edition One of the most popular and beloved introductions to the concept of faith ever written, ‘Mere Christianity’ has sold millions of copies worldwide. ...

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...

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...

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...

1984 | The international bestselling classic from the author of Animal Farm. Winston Smith rewrites history. It's his job. Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, he h...

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...

Land. How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World | From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fo...

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...

End Game. Tipping Point for Planet Earth? | What happens when vast population growth endangers the world's food supplies? Or our water? Our energy needs, climate, or environment? Or the planet's biodi...

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...

The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless. A True Story of Love and Compassion Amid a Pandemic | A story of poverty, generosity and worlds colliding in modern Britain When Covid-19 hit the UK and lockd...

Nemesis. The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 | A companion volume to his bestselling 'Armageddon', Max Hastings' account of the battle for Japan is a masterful military history. Featuring the most remarkabl...

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...

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...

The War of the Worlds | "For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive." When a strange, meteor-like object lands in the hea...

Value(s). Climate, Credit, Covid and How We Focus on What Matters | We are at a pivotal moment in the fight against climate change – with the ultimate opportunity to reassess what society values and h...

Exactly. How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World | Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us t...

The Great Gatsby | The Great American Novel of love and betrayal in the Jazz Age is now a major film. 'I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had ac...

Dubliners | 'There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.' From a child coming to terms with the death of a priest to a young woman torn be...

Exotic Vetting. Extraordinary Stories of Treating Amazing Animals | Anaesthetising a fish, x-raying a frog and hospitalising a walrus are all in a day's work for the world's wildest veterinarian. Trav...

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 ...

The Gate to China. A New History of the People's Republic & Hong Kong | A superb new history of the rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule. The rise of China and the fall of Hon...

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...

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 ...

A Life of Crime. The Memoirs of a High Court Judge | A frank and witty memoir of life at the Bar and on the Bench, from former High Court Judge The Hon. Sir Harry Ognall. For many years, Harry Ognall ...

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...

The Daughters of Yalta. The Churchills, Roosevelts and Harrimans – A Story of Love and War | The brilliant untold story of three daughters of diplomacy: Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen H...

Tess of the D' Urbervilles | "Hardy watches over Tess like a stricken victim. He is as tender to Tess as Tess is to the world. Tender and helpless" - Irving Howe Into his story of a simple but beautif...

The Looting Machine. Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa’s Wealth | A shocking investigative journey into the way the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa, ‘The Looting Ma...