Lilly Chance a réalisé son rêve de petite fille : elle a fondé un refuge pour animaux sauvages au sud du Dakota, un territoire splendide et sacré pour les Amérindiens. Au milieu de cette nature solitaire, elle ne s’attendait vraiment pas à retrouver Cooper, son ami d’enfance. L’ex-policier new-yorkais lui confie avoir abandonné son métier à cause du meurtre d’un collègue. Il a d’ailleurs traversé le pays pour conquérir le cœur de Lilly. Mais leurs retrouvailles sont mises à mal, car les co...

A concise guide to key events, people and places in English history and how England has come to be what it is today. From prehistoric England, Stonehenge and the Romans to modern times.Key events, people and places include:The Anglo-Saxons and Vikings1066, Battle of HastingsRichard 1 and The CrusadesHenry VIII, Thomas More, The Spanish Armada, Gunpowder PlotCromwellWorld Wars 1 and 2The NHSThe 1953 ...

A comprehensive account of the natural history of fungi, from their lifestyle, habitats and ecology to their uses for humans. This edition is exclusive to newnaturalists.comHow do we use fungi in medicine? How can we identify edible mushrooms? Brian Spooner and Peter Roberts are both widely respected experts in fungi from the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. In this highly authoritative guide they examine all aspects of fungi, from their lifestyle and habitats to their diverse reprodu...

The Collins Nature Library is a new series of classic British nature writing – reissues of long-lost seminal works. The titles have been chosen by one of Britain’s best known and highly-acclaimed nature writers, Robert Macfarlane, who has also written new introductions that put these classics into a modern context.A Land is Jacquetta Hawkes’ seminal work, and a classic piece of British Nature writing. It is the history of the shaping of Britain and its people from the first, lifele...

Guaradian award winning novel about courage, friendship and war. Reissued into the Essential Modern Classic list.When a bomb during an air raid destroys Harry's home and kills his family, he knows that he is all alone in the world and has only himself to rely on. Anxious that he will be sent to live with his fussy Cousin Elsie he goes on the run across the war-battered land of North East England, his only friend in his journey a stray dog that he meets on the beach. Will Harry ever...

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.'Fifteen men on the dead man's chest –Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!'Upon finding a map in his parents' inn, young Jim Hawkins joins a crew on route to the Caribbean to find buried treasure. One of his crew, the charming, yet devious Long John Silver is determined to snag the booty for himself and Jim's swashbuckling voyage becomes a mutinous and murderous adventure – where his own bravery is put to t...

The Collins Nature Library is a new series of classic British nature writing – reissues of long-lost seminal works. The titles have been chosen by one of Britain’s best known and highly-acclaimed nature writers, Robert Macfarlane, who has also written new introductions that put these classics into a modern context.Adventures Among Birds is almost a manifesto for the life of birds. Hudson's experience of different forms of birdlife is prodigious, and he weaves a thousand small anecd...

Slugs and snails are part of the great Phylum Mollusca, a group that contains creatures as varied as the fast-moving squid or the sedentary clams, cockles and mussels. The largest group, however, are the gastropods, animals originally with a single foot and a single coiled shell.They are the only group of molluscs to have representatives living on land as well as in the sea and freshwaters. This book is about the slugs and snails that live on land.For creatures living on la...

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.‘I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.’Orphaned as a young teenager, Lowlander David Balfour’s only relative is his guardian and uncle, Ebenezer. Ill-thought of and disliked by many, it’s not long before Ebenezer betrays his nephew and David finds himself trapped aboard a ship.He soon strikes up a friendship wi...

Peter Collins was one of a triumvirate of English drivers who were at the pinnacle of sports car and Formula 1 racing in the late 1950s. The other two were Mike Hawthorn and Stirling Moss. Collins married an American actress, the daughter of an assistant to United Nations' Secretary Dag Hammarskjold. He lived the life of a playboy and competed in virtually every F1 and sports car race prior to his untimely death in August 1958. He possessed an ingratiating, bubbly personality that endeared...

Collins IGCSE® French provides comprehensive coverage of the Cambridge IGCSE French (0520) syllabus. To support the Student’s Book and Workbook, this full and comprehensive Teacher’s Guide provides teaching notes and support material to enable teachers to plan and manage their lessons.An indispensable resource for teachers, this Teacher’s Guide provides clear and concise notes for all units to support teachers in preparing, planning and managing their lessons. A comprehensive intro...

Full support and guidance for teaching the latest Cambridge IGCSE® Additional Mathematics 0606 syllabus for first teaching from 2018 and examination from 2020. Save time with homework worksheets and extension worksheets in Word format available for download.Exam Board: Cambridge Assessment International EducationFirst teaching: 2018 First examination: 2020This resource also covers the Cambridge O Level Additional Mathematics 4037 syllabus. We are working with Cambrid...