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

A fully updated new edition of David Attenborough’s bestselling classic.

A NEW STATESMEN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023

‘A lasting work of social history’ THE TIMES

‘A genuinely new history of our nation’ DAN JONES

‘This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history’ SPECTATOR

‘A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark on our age’ ADAM ZAMOYSKI

A Brief History of Time for the 21st Century

At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly, not even light can escape its grasp. Its secrets lie waiting to be discovered. It’s time to explore our universe’s most mysterious inhabitants

Black Holes

A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022

This is a biography of the Queen Mother with all the dull bits stripped out.

When told that Lady Mountbatten was being buried at sea, the Queen Mother replied cheerfully. ‘Dear old Edwina, she always did like to make a splash!’

‘I adored this book. It’s so Geena and so inspiring and such a wonderful read’ Emma Thompson

A Times Film and Theatre Book of the Year 2022

In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing ‘an art without a history’. ‘No-one’, it went on, ‘has made it the business of his life to study the development of tattooing.’

Until now.

'A beautiful, beautiful book . . . archaeology is changing so much about the way we view the so-called Dark Ages … [Williams] is just brilliant at bringing them to light' Rory Stewart on The Rest is Politics

From the bestselling author of Viking Britain, a new epic history of our forgotten past.

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

Foreword by Gordon Buchanan

This beautiful book accompanies the photographic competition celebrating the best bird photography of the year.

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