HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. \'Alas that mortals Should blame the gods! From us, they say, All evils come. Yet they themselves It is who through defiant deeds Bring sorrow on them-far more sorrow Than fate would have them bear.\' Attributed to the blind Greek poet, Homer, The Odyssey is an epic tale about cunning and strength of mind. It takes its

Brad Pitt\'s Plan B Entertainment and Warner Bros are set to bring YA sci-fi novel Illuminae to the big screen. The year is 2575 and two mega-corporations are at war over a planet that\'s little more than an ice covered speck. Too bad nobody thought to warn the people living on it. With enemy fire raining down on them Ezra and Kady have to make their escape on the evacuating fleet. But their troubles

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALAN HOLLINGHURST `Astonishingly beautiful... The best gay novel written by anyone of our generation\' Harpers `A life changing read for me. Describes a New York that has completely disappeared and for which I longed - stuck in closed-on-Sunday\'s London\' Rupert Everett Young, divinely beautiful and tired of living a lie, Anthony Malone trades life as a seemingly straight,

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. Hardborough becomes a battleground. Florence has tried to change the way things have always been done, and as a result, she has to take on not only the people who have made themselves important, but natural and even supernatural forces too. Her fate

Novela Henryho Jamese z roku 1878, Daisy Millerová, pojednává o mladé ženě, která svým liberálním chováním pobuřovala viktoriánskou společnost. James staví do kontrastu psychologii mladé ženy a tradice společnosti, v níž je Daisy Millerová jasně na okraji. V dopisech James Daisy označil za oběť „společenského kraválu“, jehož si ona sama buď vůbec nevšímá, nebo v něm vězí až po krk.V kontextu romantického

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE\'One of the most poetic novels of the year\' NEW STATESMANHow far would you go to belong? Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in an ex-commune beside a lake in the beautiful, austere backwoods of northern Minnesota. The other girls at school call Linda \'Freak\', or \'Commie\'. Her parents mostly leave her to her own devices, whilst the other inhabitants

As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records life on the road in prose of pure poetry. Standing on the engine of a train as it rushes past fields of prickly cactus; witnessing his first bullfight in Mexico while high on opium; meditating on a sunlit roof in Tangiers or falling in love with Montmartre - Kerouac reveals both the endless diversity of human life and his own particular

The great city of Troy is under siege as Greek heroes Achilles and Agamemnon wage bloody war over a stolen woman. In the Greek camp, another woman is watching and waiting: Briseis. She was a queen of this land until Achilles sacked her city and murdered her husband and sons. Now she is Achilles\' concubine: a prize of battle. Briseis is just one among thousands of women backstage in this war - the

‘The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.’ Centred around a glorious yellow diamond that carries with it a menacing history, The Moonstone tells the story of Rachel Verinder, who inherits the stone on her eighteenth birthday. That very evening, the diamond is stolen and there begins an epic enquiry into hunting down the thief. At the same time,

Discover how Deadpool became the king of the limited series! First, everyone\'s after the Merc with a Mouth - and to clear his name he\'s got to get past some of Marvel\'s heaviest hitters, including Daredevil, the Punisher and Spider-Man! Next, a very different Wade Wilson testifies about his mercenary days - but whose side are Bullseye, Silver Sable and Domino on? And join a pulp-inspired \'Pool

The UnAmericans\' is a debut story collection of great poise. A former dissident from Communist-era Prague fears his daughter\'s new play will cast him in an unflattering light. A divorced dry cleaner tries to move on, bemused by his daughter\'s reawakened faith. A Hollywood actor is imprisoned by the House Un-American Activities Committee and has a fraught reunion with his son. A young Israeli journalist,

Spartacus returns to Thrace, ready to settle down after a decade away. But a new king has usurped the throne. Treacherous and violent, he immediately seizes Spartacus and sells him to a Roman slave trader looking for new gladiators. The odyssey has begun which will see Spartacus become one of the greatest legends of history.

Los textos que Gabriel García Márquez ha reunido en este libro fueron escritos por el autor con la intención de ser leídos por él mismo en público, ante una audiencia, y recorren prácticamente toda su vida, desde el primero, que escribe a los diecisiete anos para despedir a sus companeros del curso superior en Zipaquirá, hasta el que lee ante las Academias de la Lengua y los reyes de Espana al cumplir

A history of the role that the occult has played in the formation of modern science and medicine, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment has had a tremendous impact on our understanding of the western esoteric tradition. Beautifully illustrated, it remains one of those rare works of scholarship which the general reader simply cannot afford to ignore.

\'Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation. Braque thought the ideal state would be reached when we said nothing at all in front of a painting. But we are very far from reaching that state. We remain incorrigibly verbal creatures who love to explain things, to form opinions, to argue...It is a rare

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Helen Mirren and Om Puri, directed by Lasse Hallstrom, and produced by Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Juliet Blake, DreamWorks Studios, and Participant Media. The Hundred-foot Journey is the story of Hassan Haji, a boy from Mumbai who embarks, along with his boisterous family, on a picaresque journey first to London and then across Europe, before they ultimately

Jingqiu, an innocent young woman from a politically questionable family in the city, is selected as one of a small group of students to be sent to the countryside to work on a project that will further the Cultural Revolution. Clever, curious and eager, she tries to fit in with her hosts and the rural way of life, and it isn\'t appropriate for her to fall in love. But she does, with the son of a mighty

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN\'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018 A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR \'Courageous and brave and disturbing and will stay with you for a long time\' -- Stylist Caught in the hook of love, a young woman marries a

On the eve of her wedding anniversary, Mary Gooch is waiting for her husband to come home, listening for his car along the dark, icy roads. As the night draws on, and he fails to appear, Mary reflects on the true nature of their marriage: the secrets, the silences, and the unmentionable yet inescapable fact that for each loss and disappointment, there has been a corresponding physical gain: the woman