Collins Classics – Mrs Dalloway (Collins Classics)
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Radio Free Afghanistan: A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice in Kabul
An FT Best Book of the Year
‘Perhaps the best of the memoirs of Afghanistan so far published’ FT
Collins Classics – The Panchatantra (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.
Progress: A History of Humanity’s Worst Idea
‘A spirited skewering of the idea that things can only get better’ The Guardian
‘A new understanding of our past’ Danny Dorling, author of Inequality and the 1%
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Age of Security: The Rise of a Global Obsession
‘This is not normal. It can be resisted. Find out how’ ANTONY LOEWENSTEIN
‘Breaking out of the container of containment, and restoring politics to its rightful place in human life, is perhaps our most urgent task’ KENAN MALIK, THE OBSERVER
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How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance and the Race to Save Our Words
‘Moving, beautiful and important’ FINANCIAL TIMES, BEST SUMMER BOOKS 2026
‘Punchy and persuasive’ SUNDAY TIMES
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
*A GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN, PROSPECT AND WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2025*
‘The fascinating story of ancient words … new revelations await’ The Guardian
‘A magisterial feat’ New Scientist
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Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures
A groundbreaking new perspective on catastrophes throughout human history, with vital lessons for our future
How to Read Minds: The Science and Art of Empathy: Unabridged edition
‘A beautifully observed exploration of what it really means to understand another person’ EMMA REED TURRELL
‘Sharp, funny and brilliant – a book that needed to be written’ DR CAMILLA PANG
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Custody: The Secret History of Mothers
‘A GREAT ROAR OF A BOOK’ Sunday Times
We think that our children belong to us, but families are fragile things.
The Oak and The Larch: A Forest History of Russia and its Empires
‘A towering achievement’ MERVE EMRE
NYT Best New Books of 2026
A majestic cultural and environmental history that reveals how forests have made – and resisted – Russia’s many empires.
The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind
‘Very entertaining’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘A thoroughly enjoyable book, brimming over with historical nuggets and contemplations about the future’ NEW YORK TIMES
Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Winchester returns with a thought-provoking history of the wind, written in his edifying and entertaining style.
A Knock at the Door: A homeless man, a lawyer . . . and a family changed forever
‘An incredible read. I laughed, I cried and my heart was truly touched by this beautifully written true story of hope and humanity at its best.’ Rosemary Conley CBE
‘An extraordinary story. Truly Inspirational’ Tim Vine
An astonishing story of kindness, self-learning, pain, unbelievable hope and the sheer power of love to change a life.
Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, From Revolution to Autocracy
‘A fresh, unexpected, and revealing portrait of Russia’ ANNE APPLEBAUM, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Red Famine
‘A century of Russian history told through the women who lived it, shaped it, and survived it’ NADYA TOLOKONNIKOVA, founder of Pussy Riot
A Thousand Miles From Care: The Hunt for My Brother’s Killer – A Thirty-Year Quest for Justice
Soon to be a MAJOR MOVIE. A gripping and heartbreaking story, A Thousand Miles from Care tells the 30-year quest Steve Johnson undertook to uncover the truth about his brilliant brother’s death.
Sanctuary
Sanctuary is an ancient right. But what does it mean today? Drawing on a lifetime of engagement with literature, myth, history and tradition from different cultures, Marina Warner’s Sanctuary is an ambitious attempt to grapple with the sharpest questions that we are facing in today’s world of global turmoil.