Книги William Collins

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 ...

Platypus Matters. The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals | A compelling, funny, first-hand account of Australia's wonderfully unique mammals and how our perceptions impact their future. Think o...

Letters to the Earth. Writing to a Planet in Crisis | A profound, powerful and moving collection of 100 letters from around the world responding to the climate crisis, introduced by Emma Thompson and ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Air Force Blue. The RAF in World War Two | Air warfare was a terrible novelty of the modern age, requiring a new military outlook. From the beginning, the RAF's identity set it apart from the traditio...

Hidden Figures. The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race | Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female ma...

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 Weight of Glory. A Collection of Lewis’ Most Moving Addresses | Selected from sermons delivered by C. S. Lewis during World War II, these nine addresses show the beloved author and theologian brin...

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 ...

The Art of Disagreeing Well. How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard | By a two-time debating world champion, a dazzling look at how arguing better can transform your life – and the world – for t...

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...

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...

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...

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 Third Pillar. How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind | From one of the most important economic thinkers of our time, a brilliant and far-seeing analysis of the current populist backl...

Born to Be Posthumous. The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey | From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books...

Shakespeare. The World as a Stage | Bill Bryson’s biography of William Shakespeare unravels the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of our greatest poet and playwright. ...

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...

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...

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...

Bat, Ball and Field. The Elements of Cricket | Bat, Ball and Field is a wonderful foray into the history and culture of cricket. Chronicling the evolution of the sport since its earliest years, highli...

Who Owns England? How We Lost Our Land, and How to Take It Back | Who owns England? Behind this simple question lies this country's oldest and best-kept secret. This is the history of how England's el...

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...

Orlando | ‘Orlando had become a woman – there is no denying it. But in every other respect, Orlando remained precisely as he had been. The change of sex, though it altered their future, did nothing wh...

God’s Little Book of Hope. Words of inspiration and encouragement | With God's Little Book of Hope, words of refreshment and encouragement are always at hand, and they will bring renewed inspiration a...

Listen. How to Find the Words for Tender Conversations | From the bestselling author of With the End in Mind, this is a book about the conversations that matter and how to have them better – more hone...

No Boys Play Here. A Story of Shakespeare and My Family’s Missing Men | From the brilliantly original and critically acclaimed Sally Bayley, a literary story of working class childhood, absent or brok...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Animal Farm | All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. The animals at Manor Farm have had enough of Farmer Jones – he’s drunk, reckless and cares little for their welfare. Wh...

The Woman in White | HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void ...

The Happy Prince and Other Stories | HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spr...

The End Is Always Near. Humanity vs the Apocalypse, from the Bronze Age to Today | Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will hu...

How to Be. Life Lessons from the Early Greeks | What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other? Before the Gr...

The Ship of Dreams. The Sinking of the "Titanic" and the End of the Edwardian Era | When the Titanic sank, so did the Edwardian age that created it. In this brilliantly original history, Gareth Russel...

Operation Pedestal. The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942 | In August 1942, beleaguered Malta was within weeks of surrender to the Axis, because its 300,000 people could no longer be fed. Churchill mad...

Labrador. The Story of the World's Favourite Dog | A social history of Labradors, and how they have become the world’s most beloved dogs, by writer, presenter and long-time dog lover Ben Fogle. Labrad...

Francis Bacon. Revelations | A decade in the making, based upon hundreds of interviews and extensive new material, Pulitzer Prize winners Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan have written a startlingly origi...

Little Women | A heart-warming tale of love, sisterhood and hardship during the American Civil War, Little Women tells the story of the lovable March family. Meg, Beth, Jo and Amy try to support their...

The Bad Boy of Athens. Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones | Over the past three decades, Daniel Mendelsohn’s essays and reviews have earned him a reputation as ‘our most irresistible literary...

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...

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 Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym | Barbara Pym became beloved as one of the wittiest novelists of the late twentieth century, revealing the inner workings of domestic life so brilliantly that her fr...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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 ...

Architecture. A History in 100 Buildings | This stunning book by renowned television historian Dan Cruickshank tells the history of architecture through the stories of 100 iconic buildings. Journeying...

Human Universe | Where are we? Are we alone? Who are we? Why are we here? What is our future? Human Universe tackles some of the greatest questions that humans have asked to try and understand the ver...

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...

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...

An English Affair. Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo | Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on...

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...

Jane Eyre | 'Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me ...

The Wood for the Trees. A Long View of Nature from a Small Wood | From one of our greatest science writers, this biography of a beech-and-bluebell wood through diverse moods and changing seasons combi...