Vintage Digital imprint: 737 books
Magnum
Fifty Years at the Front Line of History
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
This book is a biography of Magnum, told largely in the words of its photographers. It offers a unique perspective on half a century of world history from an extraordinary group of men and women who were front line witnesses at virtually every major event in the last fifty years. Wars, famines, natural...
Bayern
Creating a Global Superclub
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
‘MASTERFUL’ Raphael Honigstein
The story of superclub Bayern Munich by the critically acclaimed author of Tor!
Bayern Munich is a team of extremes. They are the most passionately supported club in Germany and the most hated. There is no doubt that they are the most successful.
Winners...
The Aargh to Zzzz of Parenting
An Alternative Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
This brilliantly alternative A - Z of parenting is essential reading for all mums and dads who 'really love their kids, but...'
A is for Anxiety, Alcohol and awful Activities.
B is for Bedtime, Baking and Boredom.
C is for Childcare and Cooking With Your Coat on.
The Aargh...
by Gerry Stergiopoulos
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
'I look at the way some women behave when they're dating, and I'm sorry girls, but it's an absolute car crash. The rules of successful dating are simple, but I bet you've been breaking them all.'
After seeing too many of his female friends left all dressed up with nowhere to go, Gerry Stergiopoulos,...
Ararat
In Search of the Mythical Mountain
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
Mount Ararat in Turkey is where, as biblical tradition has it, Noah's Ark ran aground and God made his covenant with mankind. Now it stands astride the fault-line between religion and science, a geographical, political and cultural crossroads, bound up with the centuries-old history of warfare between...
Breaking The Chain
Drugs and Cycling - The True Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
On 8 July 1998 Festina team soigneur Willy Voet was stopped by the police. In his car were the drugs the team needed if they were to have any chance of playing a competitive part in the 1998 Tour de France. The car was searched, he was immediately arrested and so the story that has been undermining...
Bad Blood
The Secret Life of the Tour de France
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2009
For Jeremy Whittle, there isn't much in life as spectacular as the Tour de France: sweat-streaked, taut and burnished athletes toiling across vast and ancient European landscapes, hundreds of thousands of fans lining the route. And then there are the riders: men of almost superhuman capabilities,...
by Elspeth Huxley
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Elspeth Huxley captivated readers throughout the world with her 'memories of an African childhood' in THE FLAME TREES OF THIKA and THE MOTTLED LIZARD. In this final volume of her trilogy she tells the story of her adult life in Africa, in which the vigorously evoked personalities - from the pioneer...
by John Batchelor
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2011
An entertaining account of an extraordinary cultural and historical event: - the establishment by one highly intelligent woman of a salon of the arts in a beautiful country house in Northumberland. Wallington Hall was remote from the major centres of artistic activity, such as London and Edinburgh....
A Passionate Apprentice
The Early Journals 1897-1909
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
A Passionate Apprentice comprises the first years of Virginia Woolf's Journal - from 1879 to 1909. Beginning in early January, when Woolf was almost fifteen, the pages open at a time when she was slowly recovering from a period of madness following her mother's death in May 1895. Between this January...
The Swordfish and the Star
Life on Cornwall's most treacherous stretch of coast
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
The Penwith Peninsula in Cornwall is where the land ends. In The Swordfish and the Star Gavin Knight takes us into this huddle of grey roofs at the edge of the sea at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
He catches the stories of a whole community, but especially those still working this...
A Life of Picasso Volume II
1907 1917: The Painter of Modern Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
John Richardson draws on the same combination of lively writing, critical astuteness, exhaustive research, and personal experience which made a bestseller out of the first volume and vividly recreates the artist's life and work during the crucial decade of 1907-17 - a period during which Pablo Picasso...
by Frances Spalding
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
The life of the painter and designer Duncan Grant spanned great changes in society and art, from Edwardian Britain to the 1970s, from Alma-Tadema to Gilbert and George. This authoritive biography combines an engrossing narrative with an invaluable assessment of Grant's individual achievement and his...
Miss Angel
The Art and World of Angelica Kauffman, Eighteenth-Century Icon
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
A word was coined to describe the condition of people stricken with a new kind of fever when the Swiss-born artist Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807) came to London in 1766. 'The whole world', it was said, 'is Angelicamad.'
One of the most successful women artists in history - a painter who possessed...