Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back.
North America (USA & Canada)
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
THE SUNDAY TIMES’ BESTSELLER AND SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR
WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT CONSERVATION AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE
Rigged: America, Russia and 100 Years of Covert Electoral Interference
‘This pioneering and judicious history of foreign intervention in elections should be read by everyone who wants to defend democracy now.’ Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny
The definitive account of covert operations to influence elections from the Cold War to 2016 – and why the threat is greater than ever in 2020.
Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change
What can we really do about the climate emergency?
The inconvenient truth is that we are causing the climate crisis with our carbon intensive lifestyles and that fixing – or even just slowing – it will affect all of us. But it can be done.
Collins Classics – The Great Gatsby (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
Collateral Damage: Britain, America and Europe in the Age of Trump
‘Much bigger and more ambitious than a first-person “rise and fall” … Great vignettes and classy analysis from the man who until a year ago sat at the top of the diplomatic tree … There is nothing dusty or dry in his account of dealing with the twin forces of Boris and Donald, and how they’ve shaped politics – and his life’ Guardian
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction
‘A devastating indictment’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘An important book, a superb piece of reporting’ OBSERVER
‘With great narrative verve, and a sober and subtle intelligence, she carries us deep behind the scenes of history-in-the-making’ PHILIP GOUREVITCH
Crucible of Hell: Okinawa: The Last Great Battle of the Second World War
‘Excellent’ Antony Beevor
‘Saul David is a brilliant historian … In shocking and jaw-dropping detail, he brings a battle that deserves far greater prominence and understanding vividly back to life’ James Holland
The Splendid and the Vile: Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Bombing of London
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
‘Every time Churchill took to the airwaves it was as if he were injecting adrenaline-soaked courage directly into the British people … Larson tells the story of how that feat was accomplished … Fresh, fast and deeply moving.’ New York Times
The Good Hand: A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood and Transformation in an American Boomtown: Unabridged edition
A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021
‘Thrillingly and wrenchingly funny … like Educated and Hillbilly Elegy’DAVID LIPSKY
Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History
’Not just a readable, pacey account of an extraordinary individual and his quixotic quest … but also a troubling exposé of the fragility of our entire financial system … I loved it’Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland
Blonde Venus
‘Hollywood, we’re reminded, is after all a through-the-looking glass world, and Byrne writes authoritatively about its illusions and obscene, glittering excess … Compelling’ Daily Mail
‘Both eye-poppingly fun and thought-provoking’ The Times
Madou is the most beautiful woman in the world.
Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense.
’A genius book about a bookish genius’ Daniel Handler, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events
Argo Classics – Quick Classics Collection: Victorian Women: Little Women, Silas Marner, Emma (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.
Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
‘A stunning book, among the most immediate and thrilling works of history I have ever read’