Bøger af Tony Collins

Raising the Red Flag is a stirring exploration of the origins of the British Marxist movement, from the creation of the Social Democratic Federation to the foundation of the Communist Party.It tells a story of rising class struggle, the founding of the Labour Party, the fight against World War One, the Russian Revolution, and the explosive year of 1919.The book also uses new archival sources to re-examine Marxist organisations such as the British Socialist Party, the Socialist Labour Party, and Sylvia Parkhurst's Workers' Socialist Federation.Above all, this is the story of men and women who fought to liberate the working class from capitalism through socialist revolution.

A unique insight into the creative world of Jill McNeilly capturing some of the best examples of her art. Jill once said ' A day without sewing, painting, or even just simply sitting and thinking in my work room at the top of the house, is quite unbearable.' Jill's output over fifty years has been considerable. She has created vibrant free-style embroidery on dozens of glorious quilts, wall hangings and cushions each demonstrating how you can add colour and personality to your home, and at the same time producing useful household comforts. Her innovative cloth journals demonstrate how you can tie together fragments of family history using old photographs and words. The illustrations demonstrate the unlimited possibilities for fabric cards using jewellery fragments, old sepia photographs and French magazines. She was inspired by the cloth doll project for 'Women in Distress', organized by Brenda Hutchings, and has made and sent a dozen to America. Since then, she has continued to make her own style of doll each with individual features. Her artistic flair is underlined by her creative use of accessories such as tiaras, bows and sparkling jewellery. Her bags and fabric brooches show how easy it is to add colour and personality to your accessories. Her examples of re-working demonstrate some of the great range of materials one can use, including old lace, pearls, diamanté and mother-of-pearl buttons etc. If all this were not enough, Jill has produced some fine paintings, many of natural subjects especially flowers and insects, but it is her free-style abstract metallic iridescent canvases which provoke the most attention. People often ask 'What is the picture about?' Jill replies with slight embarrassment 'I don't really know, I suppose it's not about anything other than what it says to you!' Illustrated with fifty-five full-colour photographs, the book brings alive the colourful world of this artist's imagination.

Tony Collins has published over 1400 books, and racked up innumerable errors. Dozens of titles have failed. He's been involved in a court case, overlooked bestsellers and offered bad advice. But he has always loved books, and the crafting of books. For more than forty years he has tried to publish books that make a difference. This is his tale.

Life is already difficult for a sixteen year old boy who is at least a lap behind his peers in the 1500 metre event at the Growing Up Olympics. But when his beloved Grandfather passes away, leaving a cryptic clue to the whereabouts of untold riches, the resultant road trip will increase the pace. Escaping the clutches of an over-protective mother, sexually deprived employer and a furious Asian funeral director, Felix Malholly makes his getaway. What follows is a journey involving diamond theft, grave robbery, surfing, terrifying pensioners, stand-up comedy, torture with a chain-saw and a whole lot of fun in between. If it happened to you, how rich would you feel?

Presenting a cultural history of drinking and sport, this work examines the roles masculinity, class and regional identity play in alcohol consumption at matches, races, courses and competitions. Offering a perspective on the culture and commerce of sporting events, it is aimed at cultural historians, anthropologists and sociologists.

In September 2013 Tony Collins took advantage of a long-overdue sabbatical to walk the 490 miles of the Camino, from the French border to Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain. For decades he had helped to provide the evangelical churches of the world with reading material. Now he was deliberately stepping out of his comfort zone: a pilgrimage, carrying his pack, through a land whose language he did not speak, into a religious culture far removed from his own, in search of sources of reverence. He would not walk alone: the Way has many adherents, well over 200,000 completing their Camino during that year. He had expected the Way to be arduous, and so it proved. But he had not expected so bracing an internal journey, his battered soul laid down for examination, past errors offered up for scrutiny. Nor had he expected such moments of intense spiritual encounter; nor so many precious friendships. He discovered, above all, as have many before him, that the Road leaves an indelible mark.

Looking at rugby in late Victorian and Edwardian England, this title examines how class conflict tore rugby apart and led to the creation of rugby league. It focuses on how men and women became involved in rugby and the hostile reaction to them from rugby's middle-class leaders, and describes how the war for rugby's soul led to the 1895 split.