Vintage Digital imprint: 737 books
by Raymond Williams
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Williams's fascinating investigation into forms of communication as they stood in 1962 - computers, radio, television, printing, photography, film - remains remarkably relevant today. The idea that reality is primary, and that communication of that reality secondary, is debunked - if we take the view...
The Forgotten Trade
Comprising the Log of the Daniel and Henry of 1700 and Accounts of the Slave Trade From the Minor Ports of England 1698-1725
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
`I pray people will read this richly detailed and absorbing book, with its vivid renaissance of a matter most of us English seem to have wished into oblivion. ' John Fowles Meticulously kept by Walter Prideaux, the log of the Daniel and Henry provides an astonishing record of a trading venture in...
by Paolo Parisi
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
'My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being...'
John Coltrane rose from a hard and impoverished childhood in North Carolina to become one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time. From session musician to band member of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie...
You Must Like Cricket?
Memoirs of an Indian Cricket Fan
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
The great C L R James once asked: 'What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?' For some of us answering that can keep you awake at night.
Soumya Bhattacharya knows this: he has a steady job, a loving wife, a daughter he dotes on. But most of all he has cricket. Or perhaps more accurately:...
Flat Earth News
An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Does ‘fake news’ really exist? Find out from the ultimate insider.
After years of working as a respected journalist, Nick Davies, in this shocking exposé, reveals what really goes on behind the scenes of this contentious industry.
From a prestigious newspaper that allowed intelligence...
by Simon Amstell
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
'A beautiful and clever book about being human' Russell Brand
COMEDY. TRAGEDY. THERAPY.
Simon Amstell did his first stand-up gig at the age of thirteen. His parents had just divorced and puberty was confusing. Trying to be funny solved everything.
HELP is the hilarious and heartbreaking...
Handel
The Man & His Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
Jonathan Keates original biography of Handel was hailed as a masterpiece on its publication in 1985. This fully revised and updated new edition - published to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the composers death - charts in detail Handel's life, from his youth in Germany, through his brilliantly...
by Howard Goodall
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
The dramatic story of five key turning points in a thousand years of Western music - discoveries that changed the course of history.
Who first invented 'Doh Re Mi...'?
What do we mean by "in tune"?
Looking back down the corridor of a thousand years, Howard Goodall guides...
by Emily Koch
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
SELECTED AS WATERSTONES' THRILLER OF THE MONTH 2019
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA STEEL DAGGER AWARD 2018
LONGLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB FIRST NOVEL AWARD
5* BY REAL READERS:
'UNIQUE'
'THRILLING...FULL OF TENSION'
'BEAUTIFUL, HEART-WRENCHING'
Everyone believes Alex is in a coma, unlikely...
A Dancer in Wartime
The touching true story of a young girl's journey from the Blitz to the Bright Lights
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
London during the Blitz was a time of hardship, heroism and hope.
For Gillian Lynne - a budding ballerina - it was also a time of great change as she was evacuated from war-torn London to a crumbling mansion, where dance classes took place in the faded ballroom.
Life was hard, but her...
Bookworm
A Memoir of Childhood Reading
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up different worlds and cast new light on this one.
She was whisked away to Narnia – and Kirrin Island – and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows into midnight gardens and chocolate factories. No...
by Andrey Kurkov
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
-16°C, sunlight, silence. I drove the children to school, then went to see the revolution. I walked between the tents. Talked with revolutionaries. They were weary today. The air was thick with the smell of old campfires.
Ukraine Diaries is acclaimed writer Andrey Kurkov’s first-hand account...
An Orange Revolution
A Personal Journey Through Ukrainian History
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
In December 2004, the world watched as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians gathered to defy the results of a transparently rigged presidential election. The charismatic popular candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, had been poisoned and disfigured by his opponents. The security forces threatened violent repression....
by Grace Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
'The funniest and most perspicacious memoir I’ve read this year… A brilliant commentary on the housing crisis…. It’s hilarious, not only about rapacious landlords and their creepy ways, but about friendship, work, holidays and sex, too.'
Rachel Cooke, Observer
An Observer Book of the...