Signal Books imprint: 42 books
by Mick Sinclair
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
It may not be the longest, deepest or widest river in the world but few bodies of water reveal as much about a nation’s past and present, or as suggestive of its future, as England’s River Thames. Tales of legendary lock-keepers and long-vanished weirs evoke the distant past of a river which evolved...
Questions of Taste
The Philosophy of Wine
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Interest in and consumption of wine have grown exponentially in recent years and there has been a corresponding increase in consumers' knowledge of wine, which in turn has generated discussions about the meaning and value of wine in our lives and how renowned wine critics influence our subjective assessment...
Walking the Hexagon
An Escape Around France on Foot
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Why would a man retire from his job and take off on a unique 4,000-mile walk around France? What possessed him to wear out his sixty-year-old hips and knees when he could spend a comfortable retirement at home? In this fascinating book Terry Cudbird reveals the obsession which is long distance walking--the...
Kyoto
A Cultural and Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Kyoto, the ancient former capital of Japan, breathes history and mystery. Its temples, gardens and palaces are testimony to many centuries of aristocratic and religious grandeur. Under the veneer of modernity, the city remains filled with countless reminders of a proud past. John Dougill explores...
Never Again
A Walk from Hook of Holland to Istanbul
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Elderly British men display a variety of annoying habits. They write letters to the newspapers; they drink too much; they reminisce about the old days; they make lewd comments to younger women; they shout at the television screen; and they go for long walks and get lost. Jeremy Cameron chose the last...
Germany
Beyond the Enchanted Forest: A Literary Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
German military figures had a certain terrifying glamour,' wrote Patrick Leigh Fermor, recalling views about Germany during the First World War. When, he asked, had the bristling general replaced the 'philosophers and composers and bandsmen and peasants and students drinking and singing in harmony?'...
Travels in Blood and Honey
Becoming a Beekeeper in Kosovo
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Kosovo: the name conjures up blood: ethnic cleansing and war. This book reveals another side to the newest country in the world—a land of generous families, strong tastes and lush landscapes: a land of honey.
The Black Carib Wars
Freedom, Survival, and the Making of the Garifuna
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
In The Black Carib Wars, Christopher Taylor offers the most thoroughly researched history of the struggle of the Garifuna people to preserve their freedom on the island of St. Vincent.
Today, thousands of Garifuna people live in Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua and the United States,...
Smoking Kills
The Revolutionary Life of Richard Doll
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
At the end of the Second World War, Britain had the highest incidence of lung cancer in the world. For the first time lung cancer deaths exceeded those from tuberculosis - and no one knew why. On 30 September 1950, a young physician named Richard Doll concluded in a research paper that smoking cigarettes...
by Stephen Mansfield
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
From its obscure origins as a fishing village along a marshy estuary, Tokyo grew into one of the world's largest and most culturally vibrant metropolises. For all its modernity and craving for the new, it is a city impregnated with the past. In the backstreets of districts that have inspired the setting...
by Martin Pevsner
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
Greg wakes up in a remote war zone, sole survivor of an air crash caused by a suicide bomber. Aman faces the disappearance of his wife and children in a family blood feud. Samira is forced to cope with the complexities of life as an asylum-seeker in the UK. Nuala must deal with the news that her husband...
Walking the Retreat
The March to the Marne: 1914 Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
The opening month of the Great War ending in the Battle of the Marne (6-9 September 1914) was a turning point in modern history. The French and British armies were forced into a long retreat from Belgium but subsequently regrouped to mount a successful counter-attack. However, the miracle of the Marne,...
Oxford Examined
Town & Clown
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Repeatedly jamming his fork of curiosity into the live toaster of opportunity, comedian Richard O. Smith captures the experience of living in Oxford in probably the funniest book written about the Dreaming Spires. Collected here are 70 of his best Oxford Examined columns from the award-winning Oxford...
The Man With His Head in the Clouds
James Sadler, The First Englishman to Fly
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Hilarious, enlightening and inspiring The Man with His Head in the Clouds is anything but ordinary. Smith has artfully created a category-defying juxtaposition of historical biography and autobiographical recovery story. . . fun and accessible.' --The Psychologist'All human life is here, served up with...