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The Making of the President 1960

This groundbreaking national bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner revolutionized the way presidential campaigns are reported. More

Profiles in Courage

Pulitzer Prize winner that helped propel the young senator to the White House. More

Bernard Cornwell

The most magical phrase I knew as a child was “Once upon a time” because those four words meant a story was coming. More

Bernard Cornwell

Gorky Park

First book in the Arkady Renko series, which became an instant bestseller and changed the crime fiction genre. More

1958: Collins publishes the first English translation of Doctor Zhivago…

Collins publishes the first English translation of Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. More

The Years of Extermination

The Pulitzer Prize–winning Holocaust history, hailed as “a masterpiece” (New York Times Book Review). More

The Downing Street Years

Compelling account of Thatcher’s remarkable life in her own words. More

Doctor Zhivago

Collins was the first to publish this epic romantic drama by the Nobel Prize winner in English. More

Empire of the Sun

Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. More

Seven Years in Tibet

A landmark in travel writing, it has been translated into fifty-three languages. More

Love and War in the Apennines

The early life story of a man who would become one of Britain’s best-loved literary adventurers. More

1973: William Collins and Sons secures the rights to Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago…

William Collins and Sons secures the rights to Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, an eye-opening work that exposes in startling detail the horrors of the communist regime in Russia. More

Pallavi Aiyyar

I read to travel within and to range wide beyond my limited firsthand experiences. More

Pallavi Aiyyar

Rosemary Sullivan

I write out of compulsion. “The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner,” as Alan Sillitoe remarked—the exhilaration and discipline of the run; the finish line unknown until you get there. More