Anne Collins Books

An orphan sent to live with her grandfather learns to love both the old man and the Swiss Alps and is homesick when she goes to the city to be a companion to an invalid.

A sumptuous guide to the art of Henry VIII - and what his collection of paintings and artworks reveal about the man and his reign

"Precious Ramotswe is a kind, warm-hearted and large African lady. She is also the only female private detective in Botswana. Her agency - the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - is the best in the country. With the help of her secretary, Mma Makutsi, and her best friend, Mr JLB Matekoni, she solves a number of difficult - and sometimes dangerous - problems. A missing husband, a missing finger and a missing child - she will solve these mysteries in her own special way"--Back cover

Newspaper reporter Ed Malone is looking for an adventure. He finds it when he agrees to go to the Amazon jungle wuth the famous Professor Challenger and two others. On this fantastic journey of adventure and danger, the four men find a Lost World - a world of prehistoric animals and of danger. A classic story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes.

"Anna Karenina" is perhaps the greatest novel of all time. It tells the story of Anna, married to the dull, cold Karenin in 19th century St. Petersburg, Russia. She falls in love with a handsome young soldier, Vronsky. At first Anna is happy, but the story ends in despair, and death. -- from p. 4 of cover.

First published in 1919, "The Mark of Zorro" introduces Zorro, a masked hero who defends the oppressed in Old California. None suspect that Zorro is really Don Diego Vega, a seemingly frivolous caballero. This is the original novel that launched the legend of Zorro.

"Who are the British? This book will tell you about their lives, TV programmes, business, family life, pets - and the food. This is a book about real people and real life in Britain today"--Back cover note.

The story of England's first great queen - and how she wielded power with a meticulously crafted image

Joe Simpson, with just his partner Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed West Face of the remote 21,000 foot Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in June 1995. But before they reached the summit, disaster struck. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frostbitten, to tell their non-climbing companion that Joe was dead. For three days he wrestled with guilt as they prepared to return home. Then a cry in the night took them out with torches, where they found Joe, badly injured, crawling through the snowstorm in a delirium. Far from causing Joe's death, Simon had paradoxically saved his friend's life. What happened, and how they dealt with the psychological traumas that resulted when Simon was forced into the appalling decision to cut the rope, makes not only an epic of survival but a compelling testament of friendship.

It was the storm of the century, a tempest created by so rare a combination of factors that meteorologists deemed it "the perfect storm". When it struck in October, 1991, there was virtually no warning. "She's comin' on, boys, and she's comin' on strong," radioed Captain Billy Tyne of the Andrea Gail from off the coast of Nova Scotia. Soon afterward, the boat and its crew of six disappeared without a trace. The Perfect Storm is a real-life thriller, a stark and compelling journey into the dark heart of nature that leaves listeners with a breathless sense of what it feels like to be caught, helpless, in the grip of a force beyond understanding or control.