Vintage Digital imprint: 737 books
by Robert Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Robert Crawford's new collection is an exhilarating celebration of the world he lives in: his family, his fellow Scots, his country and his country's languages. Beginning with a group of moving, renewing love poems to his wife, the book builds into a polyphonic hymn to life in all its aspects.
There...
Knowing the Score
My Family and Our Tennis Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
The Sunday Times bestseller
Judy Murray provides the ultimate insight into life with her tennis champion sons Andy and Jamie.
What happens when you find you have exceptional children?
Do you panic? Put your head in the sand? Or risk everything and jump in head first?
As mother...
The Racer
Life on the Road as a Pro Cyclist
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
What is it really like to be a racer?
What is it like to be swept along at 60kmh in the middle of the pack? What happens to the body during a high-speed chute? What tactics must teams employ to win the day, the jersey, the grand tour? What sacrifices must a cyclist make to reach the highest...
Born to Ride
The Autobiography of Stephen Roche
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
In 1987 Stephen Roche touched greatness
In June he won the Giro d'Italia, fighting a ferocious battle against not only his rivals but also against his teammates and an angry, partisan Italian crowd.
In July Roche secured the yellow jersey in the Tour de France, blacking out shortly after...
101 Damnations
Dispatches from the 101st Tour de France
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Join Ned Boulting as he reports on his dozen-th Tour de France, an event in which blokes do amazing things on bikes, and, we’re oft told, the biggest annual sporting event in the world.
101 Damnations is a chance to relive the 2014 race, stage for stage, fall after fall, tantrum by tantrum;...
by Dr David Gates
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Known collectively as the 'Great War', for over a decade the Napoleonic Wars engulfed not only a whole continent but also the overseas possessions of the leading European states. A war of unprecedented scale and intensity, it was in many ways a product of change that acted as a catalyst for upheaval...
Put Me Back On My Bike
In Search of Tom Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Tom Simpson was an Olympic medallist, world champion and the first Briton to wear the fabled yellow jersey of the Tour de France. He died a tragic early death on the barren moonscape of the Mont Ventoux during the 1967 Tour. A man of contradictions, Simpson was one of the first cyclists to admit to...
Wonder Tales
Six Stories of Enchantment
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Marina Warner has gathered together a magical collection of fairy tales by the great women storytellers of the 17th and 18th centuries. These are passionate, extraordinary, and occasionally proto-feminist retellings of classic fairy stories by women who ingeniously used the fairy tale genre to comment...
The Cycling Anthology
Volume One (1/5)
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO CYCLING IN FIVE VOLUMES
Volume One of The Cycling Anthology, a collection of the best writing on cycling by some of the sport's leading writers. Between them, they’ve covered hundreds of Tours de France and written dozens of excellent books and some have even ridden...
Boulting's Velosaurus
A Linguistic Tour de France
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Find yourself confused, nodding along when a rouleur relates how le biscuit was effrité (crumbled)? How today they’re feeling Angers (past caring)?
Fear no more, for Boulting's Velosaurus will illuminate, enlighten and, frankly, mislead.
In his Velosaurus, ITV Tour de France commentator...
The Mechanic
The Secret World of the F1 Pitlane
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
In the high-octane atmosphere of the Formula One pit lane, the spotlight is most often on the superstar drivers. And yet, without the technical knowledge, competitive determination and outright obsession from his garage of mechanics, no driver could possibly hope to claim a spot on the podium. These...
by Jo Pavey
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
The inspirational story of athlete Jo Pavey, the runner and mum who ran at a record-breaking fifth Olympic Games at Rio 2016.
'Come-back races? I've had more than a few, the night of 10 May 2014 was the ultimate long shot. I was a forty-year-old mother of two who had given birth eight months...
Roule Britannia
Great Britain and the Tour de France
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
How did Great Britain conquer the Tour de France?
In 2012 Bradley Wiggins made history by becoming the first Briton ever to win the Tour de France. Since that moment the UK has been living through the golden era in the world's greatest bike race, with four overall titles for Chris Froome, Geraint...
Monty's Manor
Colin Montgomerie and the Ryder Cup
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
'I am the Ryder Cup, I suppose' Colin Montgomerie
For twenty years Colin Montgomerie has been Europe's go-to guy in the Ryder Cup. He has been the catalyst, the leader, the closer. The man they call on to take down America's big guns, the man they turn to when a win is desperately needed to...