The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England
This brilliant new book explores the lives of eight generations of the greatest kings and queens that this country has ever seen, and the worst. The Plantagenets – their story is the story of Britain.
Social & cultural history
Tommy’s War: A First World War Diary 1913–1918
The extraordinary diaries of Thomas Cairns Livingstone represent twenty years of gorgeously idiosyncratic daily records of a middle-class Glasgow household, over a period spanning shortly before the Great War to the early 1930s.
Collins Classics – Tales of the Jazz Age (Collins Classics)
From Collins Classics, short stories from the author of ‘The Great Gatsby’ and including ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’.
Collins Classics – F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection: The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and Damned and Tender is the Night (Collins Classics)
Published to coincide with the film release of ‘The Great Gatsby’, Collins Classics brings you F. Scott Fitzgerald’s three best-known works in one collection.
Titanic: History in an Hour: Unabridged edition
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.
Collins Classics – Mary Barton (Collins Classics)
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Collins Classics – Shirley (Collins Classics)
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Collins Classics – Hard Times (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.
Titanic Lives: Migrants and Millionaires, Conmen and Crew: Unabridged edition
Marking the centenary of the Titanic disaster, Titanic Lives is an utterly compelling exploration of the lives on board the most famous ship in history.
Collins Classics – Agnes Grey (Collins Classics)
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Collins Classics – A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (Collins Classics)
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The Gentry: Stories of the English: Unabridged edition
Prize-winning author Adam Nicolson tells the story he was born to write – the real story of England. It is the gentry that has made England what it was and, to a degree, still is. In this vivid, lively book, history has never been more readable.
Collins Classics – Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Collins Classics)
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Collins Classics – North and South (Collins Classics)
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The Queen of Subtleties
A tremendously vivid, page-turning and plausible novel that depicts the rise and fall of Anne Boleyn, the most spirited, independent and courageous of Henry’s queens, as viewed from both the bedrooms and the kitchens of the Tudor court.