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Half of a Yellow Sun
2007 || Paperback || Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie || HarperCollins
THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION ‘WINNER OF WINNERS’ CHOSEN AS SERVICE95 BOOK CLUB'S BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR AUGUST 2023 ‘A literary masterpiece’ DAILY MAIL ‘An immense achievement’ OBSERVER ‘A gorgeous, pitiless account of love, violence and betrayal’ TIME In 1960s Nigeria, three lives intersect. Ugwu works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic lover, the lecturer.
And Richard, a shy Englishman,...
Robinson Crusoe
|| Paperback || Daniel Defoe || HarperCollins
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore.' Shipwrecked in a storm at sea, Robinson Crusoe is washed up on a remote and desolate island. As he struggles to piece together a life for himself, Crusoe's physical, moral and spiritual values are tested to the limit.
For 24 years he remains in solitude and learns to tame and ma...
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
On Homecoming and Belonging
2017 || Paperback || Sebastian Junger || HarperCollins
From the author of THE PERFECT STORM and WAR comes a book about why men miss war, why Londoners missed the Blitz, and what we can all learn from American Indian captives who refused to go home. Tribe is a look at post-traumatic stress disorder and the challenges veterans face returning to society. Using his background in anthropology, Sebastian Junger argues that the problem lies not with vets or with the trauma they've suffered, but with the society to which they are trying to return.
One of...
Purple Hibiscus
2023 || Paperback || Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie || HarperCollins
A haunting tale of an Africa and an adolescence undergoing tremendous changes from the talented bestseller and award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Fifteen-year-old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high walls of her family compound and the frangipani trees she can see from her bedroom window. Her wealthy Catholic father, although generous and well-respected in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home.
Her life is lived under his shadow and regulated by s...
Private Peaceful
2020 || Paperback || Michael Morpurgo || HarperCollins
A stunning edition of this modern classic of World War One, featuring an introduction by the author and insightful testimonies from soldiers.
Creative Confidence : Unleashing the Creative Potential within Us All
Unleashing the Creative Potential within Us All
2015 || Paperback || David Kelley e.a. || HarperCollins
A powerful and inspiring book from the founders of IDEO, the award-winning design firm, on unleashing the creativity that lies within each and every one of us. Too often, companies and individuals assume that creativity and innovation are the domain of the 'creative types'. But two of the foremost experts in innovation, design and creativity on the planet show us that each and every one of us is creative.
In an entertaining and inspiring narrative that draws on countless stories from their wo...
Designing Dynamic Organizations
2001 || Paperback || Jay R. Galbraith e.a. || HarperCollins
Which business structures are best suited to the unpredictable 21st century? How can a company, division, or department reconfigure itself with minimum disruption and maximum impact? This title shows business leaders at all levels how to examine their choices by leading them systematically through these fundamental questions.
Grass is Singing
2024 || Paperback || Doris Lessing || HarperCollins
The Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing's first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage, set in South Africa during the years of Arpartheid. Set in Rhodesia, `The Grass is Singing' tells the story of Dick Turner, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, a town girl who hates the bush and viciously abuses the black South Africans who work on their farm. But after many years, trapped by poverty, sapped by the heat of their tiny house, the lonely and frightened Mary turns to M...
Tell Me How it Ends
An Essay in Forty Questions
2017 || Paperback || Valeria Luiselli || HarperCollins
A moving, eye-opening polemic about the US-Mexico border and what happens to the tens of thousands of unaccompanied Mexican and Central American children arriving in the US without papers
Americanah / 1st edition
2021 || Paperback || Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie || HarperCollins
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. How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined. Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria.
Self-assured Ifemelu heads for America. But quiet, thoughtful Obinze finds post-9/11 America closed to...