Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come....

On a street in a town in the North of England, ordinary people are going through the motions of their everyday existence - street cricket, barbecues, painting windows… A young man is in love with a neighbour who does not even know his name. An old couple make their way up to the nearby bus stop....

David Carter cannot help but wish for more: that his wife Eleanor would be the sparkling girl he once found so irresistible; that his job as a museum curator could live up to the promise it once held; that his daughter\"s arrival could have brought him closer to Eleanor....

Tender, sad, funny, and riveting, this is an astonishing collection of work by one of Britain\"s finest contemporary writers. A man builds a tree house by a river, in anticipation of the coming flood. A sugar-beet crashes through a young woman\"s windscreen. A boy sets fire to a barn....

The highly anticipated new novel from the Costa-award winning, three-times Booker-longlisted author of Reservoir 13. Doc Wright could be two steps or two miles from his team. In an ice storm, distance loses meaning. No one can see. No one answers their radio. All he can do is keep going, but something has gone wrong inside his head....

The highly anticipated new novel from the Costa-award winning, three-times Booker-longlisted author of Reservoir 13. When an Antarctic research expedition goes wrong, the consequences are far-reaching - for the men involved and for their families back home....

Книга "Life and Deeds of Dr. John Mcgregor. Including Scenes of His Childhood, Also Scenes On the Battle Field of Bull Run, at the Prisons in Richmond, Charleston, Castle Pinckney, Columbia, Salisbury, On the Banks of the James River, His Escape, His Return Home"....

Книга "Life and Deeds of Dr. John Mcgregor. Including Scenes of His Childhood, Also Scenes On the Battle Field of Bull Run, at the Prisons in Richmond, Charleston, Castle Pinckney, Columbia, Salisbury, On the Banks of the James River, His Escape, His Return Home"....

Книга "Life and Deeds of Dr. John Mcgregor. Including Scenes of His Childhood, Also Scenes On the Battle Field of Bull Run, at the Prisons in Richmond, Charleston, Castle Pinckney, Columbia, Salisbury, On the Banks of the James River, His Escape, His Return Home"....

On a cold, quiet day between Christmas and the New Year, a man\"s body is found in an abandoned apartment. His friends look on, but they\"re dead, too. Their bodies found in squats and sheds and alleyways across the city....

Venice came to life on spongy mudflats at the edge of the habitable world. Protected in a tidal estuary from barbarian invaders and Byzantine overlords, the fishermen, salt gatherers, and traders who settled there crafted an amphibious way of life unlike anything the Roman Empire had ever known. In an astonishing feat of narrative history, James H....

This book is a personal account of a plastic and cosmetic surgeon\'s career, from his earliest dreams to his recent retirement following a stroke. He gives an insight into the difficulties of this career, the training involved, the patients encountered, the interesting places visited and the NHS....

This practical guide to all aspects of interviewing for print and broadcast journalists demonstrates step-by-step how to manage the interview process, including how to prepare, what to do when you don\'t have time to prepare, the difference between \"soft\"and \"hard\" interviews, and how to make the most out of any interview situation....

It is well known that with a population of 1.3 billion people, China\'s market is moving quickly toward surpassing those of North America and Europe combined. Companies from the United States and around the globe are flocking there to buy, sell, manufature, and create new products....

This intricate, literary traveler\'s guide explores the contiguous cities of Rome built on the Tiber floodplain over the centuries....