Vintage Digital imprint: 737 books
Unwinnable
Britain’s War in Afghanistan, 2001–2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
Afghanistan was an unwinnable war. This definitive account explains why.
It could have been a very different story. British forces could have successfully withdrawn from Afghanistan in 2002, having done the job they set out to do: to defeat al-Qaeda. Instead,...
Style Council
Inspirational Interiors in Ex-Council Homes
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
With a foreword by Wayne Hemingway MBE and an introduction by Catherine Croft, director of the Twentieth Century Society, Style Council brings together an inspirational and eclectic selection of interiors from a generation of homeowners who are redefining the status of local-authority architecture.
From...
Usefully Useless
Everything you'd Never Learn at School (But May Like to Know)
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Usefully Useless is a gloriously diverse volume dedicated to the most engrossing trivia in the world.
Guaranteed to excite the curiosity and amuse, its pages are filled with the sort of remarkable information you would never learn, but will be overjoyed to discover. Each fact is irresistibly...
by Kester Aspden
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
‘David Oluwale’s story has a raw power, even five decades on, and Kester Aspden makes it compelling and relevant for the reader of today’
Mishal Husain
IS A BLACK LIFE WORTH LESS THAN A WHITE ONE?
When, in May 1969, the body of David Oluwale was fished out of the River Aire near...
Red Ted Art
Cute and Easy Crafts for Kids
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Crafting has never been more popular and Maggy Woodley, the creative force behind Red Ted, is passionate about making things with her children, Max, four, and Pippa, two.
Using recycled materials and bits and bobs collected when out and about, here are over 60 utterly irresistible things to...
by Sir Sir Harold Evans, Crawford Gillan
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Essential English is an indispensable guide to the use of words as tools of communication. It is written primarily for journalists, yet its lessons are of immense value to all who face the problem of giving information, whether to the general public or within business, professional or social organisations.
FULLY...
The Robin
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
No other bird is quite so ever-present and familiar, so embedded in our culture, as the robin. With more than six million breeding pairs, the robin is second only to the wren as Britain’s most common bird. It seems to live its life alongside us, in every month and season of the year. But how much...
Black Country to Red China
One girl's story from war-torn England to Revolutionary China
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Born in pre-Revolutionary China and brought up in the Midlands, Esther Cheo Ying returned to China in 1949 after a traumatic childhood, convinced that there she would find the happiness and sense of belonging she longed for. Caught up in the turmoil of civil war and sympathetic to the Communist Revolution,...
Survival Of The Fittest
The Anatomy of Peak Physical Performance
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
In this fascinating book based soundly in medical science, Mike Stroud - of BBC Television's The Challenge and SAS: Are You Tough Enough? - sets out the genetics, diet and exercise that enable humans to perform at their peak. Dr Stroud - polar explorer, practising hospital physician, and a former...
by Mark Cocker
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
There are 10,500 species of bird worldwide and wherever they occur people marvel at their glorious colours and their beautiful songs. We also trap and consume birds of every kind.
Yet birds have not just been good to eat. Their feathers, which keep us warm or adorn our costumes, give birds...
by Antony Grey
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
In 1967, after a ten-year campaign, the laws which treated all homosexual acts between males as crimes in England and Wales were altered to permit such behavior between two consenting men aged over twenty-one in private. Twenty-five years on, the profound significance of that change, and the nature...
by Andy Donaldson
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
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a book of the most baffling property photographs ever taken. With over 100 previously unpublished photos, early viewing is STRONGLY recommended.
The mantra 'location, location, location' often concerns...
Sport
Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Sport: Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know tells the history of sport. All sport. Ever. From ancient times to the 21st century.
In eight themed parts, Tim Harris describes the triumphs and breakthroughs - as well as the cheating and skulduggery - that have created the modern world of...
An Arm And Four Legs
A Journey into Racehorse Ownership
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Ever wondered what it might be like to own a horse, not just back it with a pony on the nose - own it? Stan Hey did. A veteran of the windswept racecourses of National Hunt he finally decided to stop betting on other people's horses and join the inner circle. With the growth of partnerships and syndicates...