Tag: HarperCollins UK

1989: News Corporation forms a new worldwide group called Harper & Collins…

News Corporation acquires William Collins Ltd., and brings together Collins, Harper & Row, Gower Publishing, Times Books, Bartholomew, and Angus & Robertson in a new worldwide group called Harper & Collins. More

Veronica Roth

I read because reading changes you. More

Veronica Roth

Heaven Is for Real

The life-changing story of a boy who experiences Heaven, with 11 million copies sold. More

Middlemarch

Ranked number one in a 2015 BBC poll of the 100 greatest British novels. More

Katherine Paterson

I read because I want more than one life, and books give me a limitless number of lives—lives that are different from the one I was born into. More

Katherine Paterson

Divergent

First book in the Divergent trilogy, which has sold more than 32 million copies worldwide. More

The Hobbit

In October 1936, Stanley Unwin, chairman of British publishers George Allen & Unwin (later acquired by HarperCollins), received a children’s book submission. More

1839: Collins receives a license to publish the King James Version of the Bible

Collins receives a license to publish the King James Version of the Bible. More

New Naturalists

William Collins V (known as Billy Collins) and the printers AdPrint came up with the idea of the New Naturalist Library in 1942. More

No Logo

International bestseller and one of the world’s most influential books on the alter-globalization movement. More

Seven Years in Tibet

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

The Pre-Packaged Library

The Harper brothers created collections of titles that allowed readers to amass an entire library instead of buying just a single book. More

Longitude

Story of an epic scientific quest, which won British Book of the Year in 1997. More

Letter from Agatha Christie

This letter from Agatha Christie (here signing with her second married name, Mallowan) shows the close relationship she had with Collins publisher Billy Collins. More

Early Offices

Thomas Nelson’s bookshop once sat in a half-timbered storefront at 7 West Bow in Edinburgh, one of many rickety buildings rising precariously from the Z-shaped street like upside-down pyramids. More

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Thompson’s highly subjective blend of fact and fiction that popularized what has become known as gonzo journalism. More

1856: The first Collins Atlas is published

The first Collins Atlas is published. More

Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World

Seminal work that launched Gorbachev’s reform movement. More

Original cover design for a Collins Crime Club title

Here you can see the progression of the cover art for the Collins Crime Club title Nothing is the Number When You Die by Joan Fleming (circa 1940s). 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 Diving-Bell and the Butterfly

Memoir offering a haunting, harrowing look inside the cruel prison of locked-in syndrome. More

Jane Eyre

Brontë’s masterpiece of Gothic romance; a milestone title in the history of British feminist literature. More

What Do People Do All Day?

Over 100 million Scarry books have sold worldwide; a favorite in his classic Busytown series. More

1993: Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher publishes The Downing Street Years…

Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher publishes The Downing Street Years, which recounts her eleven and a half years at London’s 10 Downing Street, the official prime minister’s residence, with HarperCollins. More

The Alchemist

An inspirational phenomenon; one of the bestselling books in history. More

Michael Morpurgo

I like above all to share the excitement of my dreams and discoveries, my doubts and fears, my joys and my sorrows, to take my readers on new journeys with me. More

Michael Morpurgo

The Kon-Tiki Expedition

This classic, inspiring tale of daring and courage has been translated into sixty-five languages. More