HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.

This inspiring collection, curated by the host of the Poetry Unbound, presents fifty poems about what it means to be alive in the world today. Each poem is paired with PA!draig\'s illuminating commentary that offers personal anecdotes and generous insights into the content of the poem.

Records the author\'s visits to the Aran Islands in 1898-1901, when he was gathering the folklore and anecdotes out of which he forged \"The Playboy of the Western World\" and his other major dramas.

‘Unsparing and tender’ Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn ‘A brilliant novel from our most brilliant of writers’ Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon ‘A quietly stunning achievement’ Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, falling in and out of love, losing the things that are most precious – and

\'Dazzling. Sharply drawn and hauntingly beautiful.\' Elif Shafak, author of The Island of Missing Trees  Four lives, entwined forever by decisions made in a time of conflict.

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER\'Prepare your hearts, for Douglas Stuart is back. After the extraordinary success of Shuggie Bain, his second novel, Young Mungo, is another beautiful and moving book, a gay Romeo and Juliet set in the brutal world of Glasgow\'s housing estates.\' - The ObserverThe extraordinary, powerful second novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain, Young

*Soon to be a live-action Netflix series!* Boy meets boy. Boys become friends.

Elegant, mature and richly atmospheric, a bittersweet love story glimpsed through the veil of memory\'The love child of Normal People and Brideshead Revisited... Sublime and elegiac\' Francesca Reece \'[A] heady mix of hope and nostalgia, of desire and regret, of new love and lost love\' Sunday TimesThora, August and Hugo come from different worlds. One is an art school dreamer, one a wealthy scion

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The unmissable new work from Ali Smith, following the dazzling Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal quartet

Here is a collection of sexy, brief, fleeting poems about love, lust and longing. They originate from a time in Japanese history where aristocratic women of the Heian court were free to marry and conduct love affairs according to their desires.

Longlisted for the Center for Fiction\'s 2021 First Novel Prize. In 1916, Sven Ormson leaves Stockholm to seek adventure in Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago where darkness reigns four months of the year, and where he might witness the splendour of the Northern Lights one night or be attacked by a polar bear the next.

Nora\'s life has been going from bad to worse. Then at the stroke of midnight on her last day on earth she finds herself transported to a library.

\'A strange,haunting, and utterly original exploration of displacement and desire\' -- TeaObreht, author of The Tiger\'s Wife, New York TimesBook Review \'Fearless, delicate, beautiful, sad,haunting and wonderful. A brilliant novel that mesmerizes with both itshumanity and its utter uniqueness\' -- JeffVanderMeer In 1980s Yugoslavia, a young girl namedEmine is married off to a man she hardly knows

\'At that time I could not imagine what would become of me, and I didn\'t care. It was not judgement day, but another morning\' This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by working-class evangelists in the North of England to be one of God\'s elect.

\'Such a beacon of pleasure\' KATE ATKINSON \'So smart and funny. Deplorably good\' IAN RANKIN \'A gripping read\' SUNDAY TIMES THE FIRST BOOK IN THE #1 BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES BY TV PRESENTER RICHARD OSMAN In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders.

A gorgeous, tender modern classic about the complexities of love, with an introduction from the Booker-winning author John Banville Stefan Valeriu, a young Romanian student, holidays alone in the Alps, where he soon becomes entangled in romantic relationships with three different women who pass through his guesthouse. We follow Stefan after his return to Paris as he reflects on the women in his life,

From fire-stealing Prometheus to scene-stealing Helen of Troy, from Jason and his golden fleece to Oedipus and his mother, this collection of classic tales from Greek mythology demonstrates the inexhaustible vitality of a timeless cultural legacy. These stories of heroes and powerful gods and goddesses are set forth simply and movingly, in language that retains the power and drama of the original works

\'You are the knife I turn inside myself\'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 writerKafka first made the acquaintance of Milena Jesenska in 1920 when she was translating his early short prose into Czech. Their relationship quickly developed into a deep attachment.

A historical romance, Sontag\'s book is based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson in the final decades of the eighteenth century. Passionately examining the shape of Western civilization since the Age of Enlightenment, Sontag\'s novel is an exquisitely detailed picture of revolution, the fate of nature, art and love.