Vintage Digital imprint: 737 books
How Cav Won the Green Jersey
Short Dispatches from the 2011 Tour de France
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
This is not a 100,000-word, minute-by-minute, blow-by-blow account of the 2011 Tour de France.
This is not the story of Cadel Evans.
This is not the story of Alberto Contador, Andy Schleck, or Bradley Wiggins.
And it's not even the story of Mark Cavendish.
(Although he...
Summer of Unrest: Revolution Road
Reflections on the Arab Spring
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Peter Beaumont has been on the ground in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya as the 'Arab Spring' has blossomed. He has witnessed the uprisings in all their messy reality. In this ebook he explains what is going on in the region and explodes the myths that the uprisings can be interpreted as an easily explainable...
Britain's Royal Families
The Complete Genealogy
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
'George III is alleged to have married secretly, on 17th April, 1759, a Quakeress called Hannah Lightfoot, daughter of a Wapping shoemaker, who is said to have borne him three children. Documents relating to the alleged marriage, bearing the Prince's signature, were impounded and examined in 1866...
The King's Cardinal
The Rise and Fall of Thomas Wolsey
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Proud, greedy, corrupt and driven by overwhelming personal ambition. Such is the traditional image of Thomas Wolsey, Lord Chancellor, Archbishop of York, Bishop of Winchester, Abbot of St. Albans, Bishop if Tournai and Papal Legate. It is an image which Peter Gwyn examines, challenges and decisively...
Digging Up the Dead
Uncovering the Life and Times of an Extraordinary Surgeon
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
A tearaway young man from Norfolk, Astley Cooper (1768-1841) became the world's richest and most famous surgeon. Admired from afar by the Brontës and up close by his student Keats, his success was born of an appetite for bloody revolutions.
He set up an international network of bodysnatchers,...
Do You Mr Jones?
Bob Dylan with the Poets and Professors
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
In 2016, Bob Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature ‘for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition’. This collection of essays by leading poets and critics – with a new foreword by Will Self – examines Dylan’s poetic genius, as well as his astounding...
by David Bellos
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
"It's hard to see how anyone is ever going to better this User's Manual to the life of Georges Perec" - Gilbert Adair, Sunday Times
Winner of the Prix Goncourt for Biography, 1994
George Perec (1936-82) was one of the most significant European writers of the twentieth century...
Fanny Burney
Her Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Fanny Burney (1752-1840) is best known as the author of EVELINA, one of the most engaging novels of the eighteenth century. But for much of her long life, she was also an incomparable diarist, witnessing both the madness of George III and the young Queen Victoria's coronation. To read the journals...
by Dr John Sugden
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
More than four hundred years after his death, Sir Francis Drake remains one of the legendary figures of history. His career is one of the most colourful on record. The most daring of the corsairs who raided the West Indies and Spanish Main, he led the English into the Pacific, and cirumnavigated the...
Downing Street Diary Volume Two
With James Callaghan in No. 10
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2009
The first volume of Bernard Donoughue's Downing Street Diary was described by Charles Moore in the Daily Telegraph as 'the best account of Harold Wlson's last days'; 'the sheer scale and detail are fascinating' wrote Peter Riddell in the Times Literary Supplement. This second volume covers the three...
Mary Magdalen
Truth and Myth
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
A dramatic, thought-provoking portrait of one of the most compelling figures in early Christianity which explores two thousand years of history, art, and literature to provide a close-up look at Mary Magdalen and her significance in religious and cultural thought.
Philip Sidney
A Double Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Courtier, poet, soldier, diplomat - Philip Sidney was one of the most promising young men of his age. Son of Elizabeth I's deputy in Ireland, nephew and heir to her favourite, Leicester, he was tipped for high office - and even to inherit the throne. But Sidney soon found himself caught up in the...
We Were Young and Carefree
The Autobiography of Laurent Fignon
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
'One of the most charismatic and flamboyant cyclists in recent history' Daily Telegraph
Laurent Fignon is one of the giants of modern cycling. Twice-winner of the Tour de France in the early eighties, Fignon became the star for a new generation. In 1989 he took part in one of the most fiercely-contested...
Rough Ride
Behind the Wheel with a Pro Cyclist
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
First published in 1990, Rough Ride is one of the greatest books ever written about the life of a professional athlete. Almost twenty years later, Yellow Jersey is publishing an updated edition of this cycling classic, with a new foreword by the author which reflects on his life both inside and outside...