William Collins

  • The bone chests

    £25.00

    ‘A diligent historian and a superb writer’TIMES, BOOK OF THE WEEK

    From bioarchaeologist and bestselling author of River Kings, a gripping new history of the making of England as a nation, told through six bone chests, stored for over a thousand years in Winchester Cathedral.

  • The palace

    £25.00

    ‘If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court history: royal residents, common visitors, thieves, invaders and ghosts’ PHILIPPA GREGORY

  • A history of water

    £10.99

    A Times History Book of the Year 2022

    A TLS Book of the Year 2022

    ‘Exhilarating and whip-smart’ THE SUNDAY TIMES

  • Earth

    £25.00

    A beautiful, full colour book to accompany the 5 part BBC TV series telling the most important story of all, the deep history of our own planet.

  • The Infinite City

    £25.00

    London is a city of dreamers. A city of possibility and experiment. A city of fervent imaginings and courageous aspirations. For centuries, it has been the capital of utopian thought. The Infinite City tells this history for the first time.

  • Silk

    £22.00

    There is not just one story of silk.
    In silk is science, history and mythology.
    In silk is the future.

    Aarathi Prasad’s Silk is a gorgeous new history weaving together the story of a unique material that has fascinated the world for millennia.

  • The earl and the pharaoh

    £10.99

    Enter a world of ancient secrets, old money, new ambitions and the discovery of priceless treasure in this revelatory new biography.

  • The trials of life

    £10.99

    The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough’s classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology, and now The Trials of Life tackles ethology, the study of how animals behave.

  • Hitler, Stalin, mum and dad

    £25.00

    THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

    ‘Epic, moving and important’ ROBERT HARRIS

    ‘A modern classic’ OBSERVER

    ‘An unforgettable epic of a book’DAILY MAIL

  • How to be

    £25.00

    What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other?

  • Devil dogs

    £9.99

    A Times History Book of the Year 2022

    From Sunday Times bestselling historian Saul David, the dramatic tale of the first American troops to take the fight to the enemy in the Second World War, and also the last.

  • Fatherland

    £25.00

    A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this “unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war” Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain

    ‘The book we need right now’ Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal