The Building of England: The Architectural History of a Nation
From awe-inspiring Norman castles, to the homes we live in, Simon Thurley explores how the architecture of this small island influenced the world.
England
The Twitnam Summer: Friendship, Satire and the Writing of Gulliver’s Travels
‘A rollicking, brilliant book’ GARETH RUSSELL, author of Queen James
‘A very fine piece of biographical work, erudite but accessible’ JOHN STUBBS, author of Jonathan Swift
A rollicking narrative history set during the extraordinary summer of 1726 when Jonathan Swift arrived in London from Dublin, with a draft of Gulliver’s Travels in his bag.
Collins Classics – Jane Eyre (Collins Classics)
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Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent
This is the simplest tale in the world. Two people meet and fall in love. But the route which brought Larissa Salmina and Francis Haskell to a backstreet Venetian restaurant in 1962 was anything but straightforward.
Afloat: Small Boats, Swell and Seaspray
‘Prose that is precise and beautiful as northern light … this book is an absolute delight’ MOYA CANNON
Join David Gange on a seabound journey along Atlantic coasts and islands, exploring places and ways of life that have been built on small rowed or paddled boats.
Lifeboat at the End of the World: A Volunteer’s Story
‘Unflinchingly candid and extraordinarily powerful’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
‘Dominic Gregory hasn’t just delivered a survey of courage and determination – Lifeboat at the End of the World is a hymn to human decency, and that makes it a very timely book indeed’ TIM WINTON
Do you really think all lives are worth saving?
Collins Classics – Wuthering Heights (Collins Classics)
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The Indefatigable Asa Briggs
Asa Briggs’s energy fuelled him to write more than fifty books, including five formidable volumes on the history of broadcasting. At the zenith of his fame he was one of the best-known historians of his generation, his name on a cover a guarantee of substantial sales.
Collins Classics – Sense and Sensibility (Collins Classics)
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Collins Classics – Pride and Prejudice (Collins Classics)
One of the BBC’s ‘100 Novels That Shaped Our World’. HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.
Collins Classics – Emma (Collins Classics)
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Keir Starmer: The Biography
THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER
A Times Book of the Year; A Telegraph Book of the Year; A Daily Mail Book of the Year; A Waterstones Book of the Year
‘Required reading for anyone who has an interest in who governs Britain’ ALASTAIR CAMPBELL
No Way Out: Brexit: From the Backstop to Boris
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
’Meticulously sourced, merciless and revelatory. It is a closely observed study of power, and how it is gained, used and lost’ FINANCIAL TIMES
The unmissable next instalment of Tim Shipman’s #1 bestselling Brexit quartet.
Collins Classics – Goodbye, Mr. Chips (Collins Classics)
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A Very Private School
THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A Times, Spectator and Waterstones Book of the Year
‘Shocking and moving’ Guardian
‘Top marks for its searing frankness, framed in wistfully beautiful prose’ The Times
Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
A Book of the Year in The Times, Guardian, Independent, New Statesman, Bookseller and at Waterstones
‘He understands only the women he invents – the others not at all’