Collins Classics – Men Like Gods (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.
Literature: history and criticism
Argo Classics – Silas Marner (Argo Classics): Abridged edition
William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time.
A Journal of the Plague Year
Welcome to London in lockdown – in 1665
This timely re-release of Defoe’s classic comes with an introduction by Wellcome-Prize-winning author, Will Eaves.
In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny
‘Never less than compelling … She consistently succeeds in bringing what might otherwise seem dusty and remote to vivid life’ Tom Holland, Literary Review
‘Starts with an erupting volcano – and then gets more exciting … Wonderfully rich, witty, insightful and wide-ranging’ Sarah Bakewell
The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones
‘Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace … He writes about things so clearly they come to feel like some of the most important things you have ever been told.’ Sebastian Barry
Collins Classics – Love and Freindship: Juvenilia and Other Short Stories (Collins Classics)
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Reflections on the Psalms
C.S. Lewis’ moving theological work in which he considers the most poetic portions from Scripture and what they tell us about God, the Bible, and faith.
The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human, and How to Tell Them Better
SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘If you want to write a novel or a script, read this book’ Sunday Times
‘The best book on the craft of storytelling I’ve ever read’ Matt Haig
‘Rarely has a book engrossed me more, and forced me to question everything I’ve ever read, seen or written. A masterpiece’ Adam Rutherford
Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE 2020
‘A uniquely strange and wonderful work of literature’ Philip Hoare
‘An exciting new voice’ Mark Cocker, author of Crow Country
The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A Historian’s Journey from Shetland to the Channel
COLLECTIVE WINNER OF THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE
‘This is the book that has been wanting to be written for decades: the ragged fringe of Britain as a laboratory for the human spirit’ Adam Nicolson
Look to Your Wife
A debut novel by a bestselling non-fiction author, this is a witty, wholly entrancing story of the pleasures, pains and obsessions of contemporary life.
Why Dylan Matters
A GUARDIAN AND INDEPENDENT BEST MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR
‘At last an expert classicist gets to grips with Bob Dylan’ Mary Beard
‘Thomas’s elegant, charming book offers something for everyone – not just the super-fans’ Independent
The First Iron Lady: A Life of Caroline of Ansbach
‘A brilliant study of a brilliant woman’ LUCY WORSLEY
History has forgotten Caroline of Ansbach, yet in her lifetime she was compared frequently to Elizabeth I and considered by some as ‘the cleverest queen consort Britain ever had’.
Collins Classics – The Scarlet Letter (Collins Classics)
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Collins Classics – Gulliver’s Travels (Collins Classics)
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An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE 2017
WINNER OF THE PRIX MÉDITERRANÉE 2018
From the award-winning, best-selling writer: a deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey in reading – and reliving – Homer’s epic masterpiece.