Faust’s Metropolis: A History of Berlin
A radical and exciting history of a city – its culture, its people and its politics – that refreshes our image of Europe’s past and of the writing of history itself.
History: specific events & topics
My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall
Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize; former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the story of the British music hall.
Collins New Naturalist Library – The Natural History of Wales (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 66)
This book is an attempt to survey the natural history of the whole of Wales. It therefore covers such areas as Snowdonia and the Brecon Beacons as well as the spectacularly beautiful Pembrokeshire coast and the less well-known but no less interesting areas of mid-Wales.
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.
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.
The Gunpowder Plot: History in an Hour: Unabridged edition
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.
American Slavery: History in an Hour: Unabridged edition
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.
Collins Classics – Mary Barton (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.
Collins Classics – Shirley (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.
Collins Classics – Hard Times (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.
The Main Cages
The acclaimed first novel by one of Harper Perennial’s most gifted young writers, author of ‘The Bronski House’ and ‘The Spirit Wrestlers’.