In The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, neurologist Oliver Sacks looked at the cutting-edge work taking place in his field, and decided that much of it was not fit for purpose. Sacks…
The arrival of two newcomers in the quiet village of Mellstock arouses a bitter feud and leaves a convoluted love affair in its wake. While the Reverend Maybold creates a furore among the village’s musicians…
This is a story of depression a condition that reduced William Styron from a person enjoying life and success as an acclaimed writer, to a man engulfed and menaced by mental anguish. With profound insight…
‘A near-perfect work of art.’ Joyce Carol Oates ‘A modern classic.’ Guardian Working as an intern for a New York fashion magazine in the summer of 1953, Esther Greenwood is on the brink of her…
Under the pseudonyms of Francis Goodchild and Thomas Idle, Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins set off on a walking tour of the north-west of England, reporting back on their adventures for Dickens’s magazine Household Words….
A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that he and other inmates coped with the experience of being in Auschwitz. He noticed that it was the…
Why should one half be free to live, while the other is doomed to watch silently from the sidelines? In this visionary collection, Virginia Woolf leads us on a transformative journey through the liberating powers…
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires.’ One of Shakespeare’s darkest and most violent tragedies, Macbeth’s struggle…
Now a major motion picture, The Disaster Artist, starring James Franco, Alison Brie, Zoey Deutch, Lizzy Caplan, Zac Efron, Bryan Cranston, Dave Franco, Kristen Bell, Seth Rogen, Sharon Stone, and Judd Apatow. In 2003, an…
‘As you are well aware, we never loved each other in your lifetime. Both of us pretended.’ Simenon explores the complexity of parent child relationships and the bitterness of things left unsaid in this stark,…
In 2011, Lynn Nottage began spending time with the people of Reading, Pennsylvania: officially one of the poorest cities in the USA. During the following two years, she dug deep into the forgotten heart of…
‘What matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now.’ A hugely influential collection for writers and artists of all kinds, Rilke’s profound and lyrical letters to a young friend advise on writing, love,…
The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart! From his acclaimed stage triumphs to his legendary onscreen work in the Star Trek and X-Men franchises, Sir Patrick Stewart has captivated…
‘Adrian has a unique gift for understanding drivers and racing cars. He is ultra competitive but never forgets to have fun. An immensely likeable man.’ Damon Hill The world’s foremost designer in Formula One, Adrian…
Franz Kafka’s letters to his one-time muse, Milena Jesenska – an intimate window into the desires and hopes of the twentieth-century’s most prophetic and important writer Kafka first made the acquaintance of Milena Jesenska in…
Explosive autobiography of Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver bass guitarist Duff McKagan Duff McKagan was a co-founder of Guns N’ Roses, with a 13-year tenure on bass in what was at the time the…
One of the most talked-about and bestselling books of last year, this is the no-holds-barred autobiography of a sporting legend driven to the brink of self-destruction The bestseller that has everyone talking. In this, his…
Exploring beyond the banal newspaper headlines that have caricatured our future king over the years, Robert Jobson’s biography provides a fresh insight into the extraordinary life of HRH Charles, Prince of Wales as he passes…
For many years an atheist, C. S. Lewis vividly describes the spiritual quest that convinced him of the truth and reality of Christianity, in his famous autobiography. „In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave…
***AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4*** NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER ‘A gripping account of the heartbreaks and triumphs of two of history’s most formidable female intellectuals, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. Gordon has…
