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The Dressmaking Book: Over 80 Techniques
This is your complete guide to dressmaking, from designing, creating and customising your clothes. Master every dressmaking technique in the book!
Fully illustrated and easy to use, this updated dressmaking book covers all the essential skills and techniques you need to make timeless wardrobe staples. It’s a must-have for beginners and expert stitchers alike.
Inside the pages of this reference book, you’ll discover:
– Step-by-step instructions and techniques, accompanied by clear, full-colour photography
– Thorough sections on tools and equipment, to help the reader choose the right items for each project
– 13 downloadable patterns for skirts, dresses, trousers, tops, and jackets that can be used to create 31 different garments
– Over 80 techniques, including how to cut out a pattern, machine stitch, and hand stitch
– Projects graded by difficulty level so as you can challenge yourself; whether you are a beginner, or looking for more advanced ideasFed up with fast fashion and fancy making your own clothes? This is the ultimate dressmaking guide for absolute beginners. Comprehensive, step-by-step guides and dressmaking patterns cover everything from choosing the perfect fabric for any project to trying your hand at a range of machine-sewing techniques.
Accompanied by close-up photographs, clear instructions, and a glossary of dressmaking terminology to demystify even the trickiest technique. This book will help you advance from a sewing learner to a seasoned stitcher in no time. Zoomed-in photographs of hand and machine tools show you the best dressmaking equipment for the job and teach you exactly how to use it.
The Essential Guide to Dressmaking
An updated edition of The Dressmaking Book that guides you through every hand stitch, machine stitch, and sewing technique you’ll ever need. We’ve included the best way to stitch, alter, put in linings, seam and hem, so you can make your favourite bespoke outfits to suit your unique style.
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£19.00£23.80The Dressmaking Book: Over 80 Techniques
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Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
**SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** **RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK** **WATERSTONES SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE MONTH**
‘An astonishing feat’
Christina Patterson, Sunday Times‘An inspiring and moving sideways look at history’
Eithne Farry, Sunday ExpressAn eloquent blend of history and memoir, Threads of Life is an evocative and moving book about the need we all have to tell our story.
From political propaganda in medieval France to secret treason in Tudor England, from the mothers of the desaparecidos in Argentina to First World War soldiers with PTSD, from a POW camp in Singapore to a family attic in Scotland, Threads of Life is a global chronicle of identity, protest, memory and politics.
Banner-maker, community textile artist and textile curator Clare Hunter chronicles the stories of the men and women, over centuries and across continents, who have used the language of sewing to make their voices heard, even in the most desperate of circumstances.
‘A beautifully considered book… Clare Hunter has managed to mix the personal with the political with moving results.’ TRACY CHEVALIER
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Kew Gardens: Exotic Plants by Marianne North Mini Wall Calendar 2024 (Art Calendar)
Marianne North was a remarkable Victorian artist, who had a great eye for botanical detail. She set out in 1871 on a painterly progress through world flora. This beautiful mini calendar features 12 exquisite paintings created by North on her vast trips across the world. Her incredible collection is now housed at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, London. Informative text accompanies each work and the datepad features previous and next month’s views. Printed on FSC-certified paper, with plastic-free packaging.Read more
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Maps of the Disney Parks: Charting 60 Years from California to Shanghai (Disney Editions Deluxe)
It all started with a map… Maps of the Disney Parks are more than just atlases used by guests to find their way to Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. They are snapshots of a place and time, relics treasured by collectors, and gorgeous pieces of artwork. In fact, it was a map (imagined by Walt Disney and drawn by Herbert Ryman) that was used to sell the idea of Disneyland to investors. Unfold this book of beautiful maps from when the very first Disney Park opened in 1955 right up to today. Discover details on how and why the domestic and international parks have changed over time, and enjoy sixty years worth of skillful creativity. Searching for that perfect gift for the Disney theme park fan in your life? Explore more archival-quality books from Disney Editions: Holiday Magic at the Disney Parks; The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky; Walt Disney’s Ultimate Inventor: The Genius of Ub Iwerks; One Day at Disney: Meet the People Who Make the Magic Across the Globe; Marc Davis in His Own Words: Imagineering the Disney Theme Parks; Yesterday’s Tomorrow: Disney’s Magical Mid-Century; Eat Like Walt: The Wonderful World of Disney Food; The Haunted Mansion: Imagineering a Disney Classic.Read more
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Derek Jarman’s Garden
‘Paradise haunts gardens’, writes Derek Jarman, ‘and it haunts mine.’ Jarman’s public image is that of a film-maker of genius, whose work, dwelling on themes of sexuality and violence, became a byword for controversy. But the private man was the creator of his own garden-paradise in an environment that many might think was more of a hell than a heaven – in the flat, bleak, often desolate expanse of shingle that faces the Dungeness nuclear power station. Jarman, a passionate gardener from childhood, combined his painter’s eye, his horticultural expertise and his ecological convictions to produce a landscape which combined the flints, shells and driftwood of Dungeness; sculptures made from stones, old tools and found objects; the area’s indigenous plants; and shrubs and flowers introduced by Jarman himself.This book is Derek Jarman’s own record of how this garden evolved, from its earliest beginnings in 1986 to the last year of his life. More than 150 photographs taken since 1991 by his friend and photographer Howard Sooley capture the garden at all its different stages and at every season of the year. Photographs from all angles reveal the garden’s complex geometrical plan, its magical stone circles and its beautiful and bizarre sculptures. We also catch glimpses of Jarman’s life in Dungeness: walking, weeding, watering, or just enjoying life.
Derek Jarman’s Garden is the last book Jarman ever wrote. Like the garden itself, it remains as a fitting memorial to a brilliant and greatly loved artist who, against all odds, made a breathtakingly beautiful garden in the most inhospitable of places. It will appeal to all those who are themselves practising gardeners, as well as the legions of admirers of this extraordinary man.
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British Library: Beatrix Potter Wall Calendar 2024 (Art Calendar): Original Flame Tree Publishing-Kalender [Kalender]
Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) is one of the world’s most-loved children’s authors. Throughout her lifetime she wrote and illustrated 28 children’s books and created characters that are still loved today. Her books have sold over 100 million copies, and the story of her life as well as her books have been made into films. Published in partnership with the British Library, this calendar features an array of Beatrix Potter’s enchanting illustrations from their collection. Informative text accompanies each work and the datepad features previous and next month’s views. Printed on FSC-certified paper, with plastic-free packaging.Read more
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British Library: Illuminated Manuscripts Wall Calendar 2024 (Art Calendar)
With their decorations, images, bright pigments and finishing touches of gold leaf, illuminated manuscripts are beautiful objects page by page. Drawing from the British Library’s extensive collection, this wall calendar features 12 stunning and intricate details. Whether familiar with medieval history or an appreciator of fine craftsmanship, this calendar provides a visual treat. Informative text accompanies each work and the datepad features previous and next month’s views. Printed on FSC-certified paper, with plastic-free packaging.Read more
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Around the World in 80 Pots: The story of humanity told through beautiful ceramics
Pottery tells us about religion, daily life, humour, trade, sex, folklore and creativity.
Bearing the imprint of their maker more than any other crafted object, ceramics give us a unique physical link to the past, often the only evidence of long-forgotten civilizations that have otherwise crumbled to dust.
From ancient Egyptian canopic death jars to ethereally beautiful porcelain, and from lewd Renaissance novelties to sleek contemporary vessels, Around the World in 80 Pots is an eclectic journey across time and cultures. Expertly selected from the unrivalled collection of the University of Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum, this compendium shows that humankind’s oldest craft is the perfect prism through which to view human history.
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Japandi Style: When Japanese and Scandinavian Designs Blend
Japandi is the newest and hottest trend in interiors: a harmonious combination of functionality, comfort, and the minimalist look that characterizes Scandinavian design, with the purest elegance of traditional Japanese craftsmanship. Japandi harmoniously blends Scandinavian hygge with wabi-sabi, a concept derived from Zen Buddhism that advocates peaceful sobriety and invites us to admire the beauty hidden in slight imperfections in nature. This first major survey of Japandi style will introduce the reader to the fundamentals, and to iconic objects that will transform an interior into a Japandi-inspired retreat. Chapter one of the book examines the converging principles that have contributed to the emergence of Japandi Style such as functionality, neutral colours, the importance of organic materials, and the thoughtful simplicity of shapes. Chapter two presents some of the most emblematic works of Japandi Style, and the design studios behind them. Chapter three gives examples of how to decorate and furnish rooms – the living room, dining room, bedroom, bathroom, winter garden, or home office – in Japandi Style.Read more
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L’art Du Siege Au Xviiie Siecle En France
This book focuses on the production of chairs, discussing the work of Avisse, Blanchard, Boucault, Carpentier, Cresson, Delanois, Foliot, Gourdin and Tilliard and recreates the environment centred around the leading figure Nicolas Heurtaut. Sculptors, gilders and upholsterers are the other professions which contribute to the elaboration of a chair. The book’s theoretical section is completed with more technical observations, notably on the art of distinguishing an authentic piece from an imitation. The period covered extends from the end of the regency style to the beginning of neo-classicism (1730-1775).Read more
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At the Artisan’s Table
Throughout history, tabletop decoration has been at the nexus of utilitarian function and innovative design. In At the Artisan’s Table, designers and event producers Jane Schulak and David Stark pair historical table wares from the world’s finest design museums with pieces by an international array of contemporary artisans who reinterpret traditional crafts and styles, including Aptware (marbled clay), blue and white Delft, chinoiserie, faux bois, plaster, splatterware, and trompe l’oeil. Each chapter features a museum object that serves as a “muse”; the work and studio of the artist who has updated the traditional craft; and gorgeous table settings designed by Schulak and Stark that incorporate the artist’s handmade wares and provide inspiration for everyone who has ever wished to wow their dinner guests.Read more
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Irish Country Furniture and Furnishings 1700-2000
This major illustrated study investigates farmhouse and cabin furniture from all over the island of Ireland. It discusses the origins and evolution of useful objects, what materials were used and why, and how furniture made for small spaces, often with renewable elements, was innate and expected. Encompassing three centuries, it illuminates a way of life that has almost vanished. It contributes as much to our knowledge of Ireland s cultural history as to its history of furniture. This is a is a substantially different book from Irish Country Furniture, 1700-1950, published by Yale UP in 1993 and reprinted several times. The new book now incorporates the findings of a lot of recent research. Nearly all the black and white pictures in the 1993 book are now in colour, or have been changed for the better, and now include different examples (except archive pictures). Many of the author’s fieldwork photographs from the late 1980s, have been digitised and will now be published for the first time. The extent has almost doubled; there are an extra 120 illustrations; the main text has been fully updated and revised; there is a new chapter Small Furnishings and Utensils and there is a new Preface by Louis Cullen. Reflecting the considerable addition of new material, the time scale is also broadened to include discussions of objects and interiors up to 2000. It represents extraordinary value. The book looks at influences such as traditional architecture, shortage of timber, why and how furniture was painted, and the characteristics of designs made by a range of furniture makers. The incorporation of natural materials such as bog oak, turf, driftwood, straw, recycled tyres or packing cases is viewed in terms of use, and durability. Chapters individually examine stools, chairs and then settles in all their ingenious and multi-purpose forms. How dressers were authentically arranged, with displays varying minutely according to time and place, reveal how some had indoor coops to encourage hens to lay through winter. Some people ate communally or slept in outshot beds, in the coldest north-west, all this is illustrated through art as well as surviving objects.Read more
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Liberty’s Furniture 1875 -1915: The Birth of Modern Interior Design
- Liberty’s Furniture 1875-1915 includes beautiful photography which showcases a wide selection of Liberty Furniture
- Features photographs of original pieces
- This book gives particular attention to the work of one of Britain’s foremost Arts and Crafts furniture designers, Leonard Wyburd, whose name resonates internationally
‘Liberty’s Furniture 1875 -1915’ provides the clearest and most comprehensive account of early Liberty furniture to date. A definitive work of reference, the volume outlines the company’s unique contribution to the British Arts and Crafts style.Throughout the history of the Arts and Crafts Movement, Liberty & Co. always enjoyed a prominent position. With imaginative design, high quality construction, and state of the art marketing, the company was responsible for some of the most beautiful and enduring pieces of furniture from that period.
Drawing on archive material and reviews in contemporary journals and magazines, Liberty’s Furniture 1875-1915 examines the key features and different styles of Liberty’s furniture design, as it evolved through a variety of genres including Oriental, Arts and Crafts and ‘modern country cottage’. Illustrations from the Liberty catalogues enable readers to see how both the products and promotional styles of the company developed, whilst the many colour photographs show a wide selection of items – from the Athelstan suite and Culloden sideboard to the Thebes stools and Witlaf chairs. Giving particular attention to the work of Leonard Wyburd, the man responsible for some of the most important elements of the Liberty style, this volume represents an invaluable evidence base for collectors and auction houses alike.
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Paris Furniture: The Luxury Market of the 19th Century
- At the core of this book is a survey of over one hundred Paris-based firms, amongst which Sormani, Baguès, Barbedienne, Christofle, Lièvre, Viardot, Dasson, Grohé, Sauvrezy, Fourdinois, Beurdeley and Linke
- The author lifts the veil on lesser-known makers such as Mazaroz and Ternisien et Dantant, and reveals important new discoveries about firms that have been all but forgotten for the last century
- Draws on the author’s extensive knowledge of nineteenth-century furniture to describe each maker’s particular style and elucidate any characteristic techniques or materials that may help with an understanding of the work and future attribution
- Includes an innovative chapter that analyses the background of the high quality copies of Ancien Régime furniture made by the upper echelon of the Paris luxury trade, bringing this important social and cultural development into the limelight for the first time
Despite the upheavals of the first decades of the nineteenth century, Paris soon recovered its position as a leading centre for furniture and design in Europe, a position that was to grow and strengthen as the century progressed. Encouraged by royal and imperial regimes, exhibited at the great international fairs, and collected by international aristocrats, bankers and newly wealthy industrialists, Paris furniture by the second half of the century had once again become synonymous with luxury and exquisite craftsmanship.
Furniture makers drew their inspiration from a vast array of historical periods and cultural sources to create new and exciting designs that both appealed to the eclectic tastes of the nineteenth-century amateur and yet suited the demands for comfort and convenience of the luxury consumer. Building on the generations of skills and techniques that had characterised French furniture during the years of the Ancien Régime, contemporary makers exploited technological advances and new materials to produce some of the most creative and inventive pieces ever made, often surpassing the quality achieved by previous generations.
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Amazing Patterns Adult Coloring Book: Featuring 54 Beautiful & Relaxing Pattern Designs for Stress Relief and Relaxation, with Floral and Mandala Patterns
Enjoy This Amazing Patterns Adult Coloring Book with 108 pages and
54 hand-drawn floral pattern relaxing illustrations. By coloring these beautiful patterns
it’s gonna be easy to let go of the stress and anxiety, just express your creativity
and get lost in the magical world of coloring with these beautiful, complex, and relaxing patterns.This Mandala and Flower Pattern Coloring Book is a nice present idea for yourself,
and your family members, for any occasion like a Birthday, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, or Holidays,
or if you want to make a surprise for your loved one.
This Mindful Adult Coloring Book has a wide variety of floral and mandala patterns.You will love this Amazing Mandala Pattern Adult Coloring Book For Relaxation because you find:
- Colorful and Beautifully designed softcover.
- 108 pages with 54 ready-to-color mandala pattern illustrations.
- Large size 8.5×11 in.
- Designed for expert skill level.
- Mandala Patterns are printed single side to prevent bleeding through.
Stress will be relieved easily, coloring is a great way to relax and enjoy the moment.
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The Soul of a Tree: A Master Woodworkers Reflections
A beautiful book in which this remarkable Japanese American craftsman and philosopher impresses us with his devotion to discovering the inherent beauty of wood so that noble trees might have a second life as furniture. The first part of this meditative book reveals the development of Nakashima as a spiritual artist and the influence of life in an Indian ashram in the 1930’s. The second reveals the inner truth and nature of the different trees with which he works, while the third explores the skills by which the wood is reborn as furniture.Read more
£34.20£39.90The Soul of a Tree: A Master Woodworkers Reflections
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Upcycling Furniture & Home Decor For Dummies
Breathe new life into old furniture and thrift store finds
Upcycling Furniture For Dummies shows you how to revitalize old furniture, with just a little effort and imagination, and maybe a few coats of fresh paint. Upcycling furniture is affordable, good for the environment, and a whole lot of fun! This easy, step-by-step guide shows you how to get creative and put your own unique flair on your designs. You’ll gain the knowledge and confidence you need to select items that are worth transforming or restoring and learn specific techniques to give old pieces a new lease on life.
- Learn the process of upcycling dressers, tables, chairs, and other furniture
- Enjoy the fun of sourcing items and increasing their value with your creativity!
- Update your décor with gorgeous, upcycled furniture
- Express yourself and find out how to flip your creations for a profit!
This Dummies reference is great for anyone with an interest in turning trash into treasure.
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Sewing Lampshades: How to create your own tailored and pleated designs
Learn to sew your own stunning lampshades using this comprehensive step-by-step guide from the founder of the Traditional Upholstery School, Joanna Heptinstall. The book contains 18 fully illustrated step-by-step projects, featuring tailored, pleated, faux-pleated and loose-cover designs. Each technique is covered in detail, from measuring your fabric, choosing a frame shape, calculating your seams, creating a shade, adding trims and choosing a stand. The projects require few specialist tools, can be easily customised to suit your home decor, and cover a range of styles, sizes and fabrics. The book is bursting with inspirational images, along with tips and tricks of the trade that Joanna has acquired over her successful career in upholstery.
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Furniture Flips: 25 bright and vibrant painted furniture projects
Joanne Condon takes you step-by-step through the process of furniture flipping, from choosing the right piece to using colour, pattern and detail to bring new life to an item.
The perfect antidote to unsustainable, mass-produced ‘fast furniture’, flipping can take many forms: applying paint or wallpaper, replacing handles and hardware, experimenting with colour and adding pattern and texture. First of all, Joanne explains everything you need to get started, including essential equipment and how to prepare old furniture for painting. Next, you will find 25 projects, organized by difficulty level. Beginners can start out with simple stencils and colour blocking. Intermediate upcyclers can try their hand at cross stitch on a cane-backed chair. And confident furniture flippers can take on more advanced projects, such as transforming a wardrobe into a pantry or creating a distressed paint effect. Throughout the book, Joanne presents easy-to-follow instructions with photographs to guide you at every step of the way.
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100 Mandalas Adult Coloring Book: Stress Relieving Beautiful Mandala Designs for Adults Relaxation.
Discover this beautiful 100 Mandala Coloring Book For Adults,
with 100 Wonderful and relaxing Hand-Drawn Mandala Patterns.
Each coloring page is designed to provide calmness and relaxation.
Mandala Coloring Book Specifications:- Dimensions: 8.5 x 11 inches ( 21.59 x 27.94 cm)
- 100 individual projects.
- Premium Soft Cover.
- Each mandala coloring page is different and printed on a single side, so you can use a broad variety of coloring choices without fearing bleed through.
- This adult coloring book is a great gift for any occasion, or for anyone who needs a moment of peace and relaxation.
- Perfect to relieve stress by coloring this 100 relaxing mandala pattern, to provide hours of fun, calm, and relaxation.
Mandal Coloring Books make a nice gift idea for any occasion, with a wide variety of mandala illustrations
for a relaxing moment and stress relief.Scroll up and click “Add to Cart” to order your copy today!
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Simple Japanese Furniture: 24 Classic Step-By-Step Projects
Simple Japanese Furniture presents 24 simple and stylish furniture projects for the home based on timeless Japanese designs from the mid-1950s.
The timeless designs featured in this book were designed in the mid-1950s by the Japanese design group KAK, led by architect and industrial designer Yoshio Akioka. Now, more than half a century after the creation of these designs, the chairs, tables, and storage furniture retain their simple beauty and functionality.
The 24 rewarding projects are presented with notes on the key design elements of each piece, the tools and techniques needed to construct them, and step-by-step instructions for completing them. The designs are chosen to highlight the structure of furniture and the techniques are well-suited to working with softwood planks and plywood – readily available in DIY stores. Each project is described in a brief overview, with a difficulty rating and an emphasis on key design elements. This is followed by a detailed instructions section with helpful illustrations.
Appealing to woodworkers and hand-tool enthusiasts, the book reflects a growing interest in making simple practical furniture for the home as well as an appreciation of Japanese design.
Projects include:
- Two-way cross-braced stool
- Round plywood tea table
- Sturdy porch bench
- Simple umbrella stand
- V-shaped leg tea table
- Variable-height table
- Box-shaped bench
- Low plywood chair.
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Czech Glass 1945-1980: Design in the Age of Diversity
A comprehensive record of Czech glass art from 1945 to 1980. Includes contributions by international authors, biographies of artists and firms, and an index of signatures.Read more
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All in Good Time: Reflections of a Watchmaker
All in Good Time is the remarkable story of George Daniels (1926-2011), the master craftsman, who was born into poverty but raised himself to become the greatest watchmaker of the twentieth century. Daniels stands alone in modern times as the inventor of the revolutionary co-axial escapement, the first substantial advance in portable mechanical timekeeping over the lever escapement, which has dominated ever since its invention in 1759. Daniels’s love of mechanics embraced not only the minute, however – he was also a passionate collector and driver of historic motorcars. This revised and expanded edition of his autobiography also contains a new section that illustrates and discusses over thirty of the pocket and wrist-watches Daniels himself made over the years. Witness here the triumph of intelligence, ingenuity, matchless skill and singularity of purpose over the most unpromising of beginnings.Read more
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Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in its Struggle to Be Understood
‘I have never read such a stimulating short guide to art’ Lynn Barber, Sunday Times
Now Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can appreciate art (after all, there is a reason he’s called this book Playing to the Gallery and not ‘Sucking up to an Academic Elite’). Based on his hugely popular BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures and full of pictures, this funny, personal journey through the art world answers the basic questions that might occur to us in an art gallery but seem too embarrassing to ask.
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Backfire
Alan Clark’s passion for cars – that he bought, drove and wrote about over 50 years
Alan Clark was passionate about cars from an early age. He bought his first car – a secondhand 6.5 litre Bentley – while still a schoolboy at Eton and without a driving licence. By the time he was 24 he had been banned from driving three times, not only for speeding but in one instance for driving an open Buick Roadster with a girl on his lap. He dealt in ‘classic’ and vintage cars and soon built up an impressive stable of his own.
One of his first published pieces of journalism appeared in the US magazine, Road and Track, for which he was briefly UK correspondent. BACK FIRE, the title of a column he wrote in Thoroughbred and Classic Cars magazine, ran for three years until his death in September 1999. Alan Clark’s elder son, James Clark – who has inherited his father’s motoring enthusiasms – provides a Prologue; Alan Clark’s widow Jane writes a moving Afterword.
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The Official Trixie and Katya Coloring Book
The Trixie and Katya Coloring Book will feature 44 fierce, fun-to-colour illustrations of beloved drag Queens Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova.Read more
£13.50£17.10The Official Trixie and Katya Coloring Book
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The Official Heartstopper Colouring Book: The million-copy bestselling series, now on Netflix!: The bestselling graphic novel, now on Netflix!
*Now an acclaimed live-action Netflix series!* Packed with stunning artwork from the bestselling Heartstopper series, this unique colouring book allows you to relax with Nick, Charlie and friends – and also includes several exclusive never-before-seen images.
Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love.
This beautiful colouring book contains all the fan favourite characters and scenes such as Nick and Charlie’s first kiss and their trip to Paris, plus guest appearances from Nellie, Tao and Ellie, Tara and Darcy and many more! Featuring some empty speech bubbles to fill in with your own creative thoughts, and the entire Tara/Darcy mini-comic to colour at the end, this book has something for everyone.
Celebrate the power of love and friendship, while becoming involved in the Heartstopper world in a truly interactive way.
Praise for Heartstopper:
‘Absolutely delightful. Sweet, romantic, kind. Beautifully paced. I loved this book.’ RAINBOW ROWELL, author of Carry On
‘The queer graphic novel we wished we had at high school.’ Gay Times
Heartstopper was Children’s #1 bestseller in the TCM chart on 23 April 2022.
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Variable Valve Timings: Memoirs of a car tragic
‘What defines the car-saddo condition is not being able to recall a time when the toy-car-era of your life actually ended. Because for us sufferers, it never does.’
Nobody knows cars like Chris Harris does. He calls it ‘unhinged geekery’, but the rest of the world call it infectious enthusiasm, adrenalin fuelled escapism and rigorous journalistic integrity.
And then there are his famous skills at the wheel, from city cars to rally cars, not forgetting the Guinness World Record 3.4km sideways in an electric car.
And now for the first time, Harris takes us down the road of his life-long obssession with the automobile – along surprising diversions, around hazards and obstructions, down the fast lane collecting Gs and back to the lock-up to prep the stock.
From the six-year-old who could recite the stats from What Car? magazine to the YouTube car guru whose honest reviews got him banned by Ferrari. From the Scalextric track of his childhood, to podiums as a racing driver out in the world. From behind his garage doors to the floodlit Top Gear studio.
Variable Valve Timings brings you an incredibly engaging story of adventure and petrolhead joy, told with wit, warmth and disarming honesty. This book is a true one-off, just like Chris.
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The Vintage Shop: ‘Hot buttered-toast-and-tea feelgood fiction’ The Times
One dress. Three women. A lifetime of secrets.
Among the cobbled streets of Frome in Somerset, Lou is about to start something new. After losing her mother, she knows it’s time to take a chance and open her own vintage clothes shop.
In upstate New York, Donna receives some news about her family which throws everything she thought she knew into question. The only clue she has to unlock her past is a picture of a yellow dress.
Maggy is in her seventies, newly divorced and all alone in an empty house. Visiting the little vintage shop in Frome, with its rows of beautiful dresses, brings back cherished memories she’d long put aside.
For these three women, only by uncovering the secrets of the yellow dress can they unlock their next chapter…
_____________________________________________________________READERS ARE LOVING THE VINTAGE SHOP:
‘Absorbing, thoughtful and moving… a wonderfully engaging feelgood read that you’ll want to come back to again and again’ MIKE GAYLE
‘Libby Page is a literary burst of sunshine . . . Utterly delightful’ VERONICA HENRY
‘An absolute must-read’ WOMAN’S WEEKLY
‘I simply adored this gloriously uplifting story about friendship and fashion’ KATE EBERLEN
‘A gently uplifting tale of hope and opportunity’ SUNDAY EXPRESS
Such a warm and wise story about female friendship and vintage fashion. A joy to read!’ ALEX BROWN
‘This wholesome book will make perfect reading for a chilly day’ PRIMA
‘A perfect touch of escapism and wish fulfilment’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Heartwarming and heart felt, truly a delight!’⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Pick up two copies and give one to a friend or loved one, as it is guaranteed to bring them joy’⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘It is so gorgeous that I just wanted to keep reading it forever’⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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The Complete Gardener: A Practical, Imaginative Guide to Every Aspect of Gardening
A Sunday Times bestseller
Even great gardeners like Monty Don are always learning and always experimenting.
The Complete Gardener brings you right up to date on how Monty gardens today.
This extensively revised new edition covers what Monty believes are the most important aspects of gardening today. Whether you’re a beginner or seasoned gardener, it’s time to get your green-fingered hands dirty!
A comprehensive gardening guide that no gardener should be without:
– An introductory chapter that explains the essentials of organic gardening practice
– A structure chapter that shows you how to define space in your garden with hard landscaping and natural options, such as trees, hedges, and topiary
– Discover all different types of flowering plants explaining how to design with them, combine, plant, and care for them
– How to grow fruits and vegetables with in-depth crop-by-crop explanations and which tried-and-tested varieties to choose fromPacked with beautiful illustrations and practical gardening tips, Monty reveals the secrets of growing vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs while respecting the needs of the environment. He covers everything from planning the space and crop rotation to pruning fruit canes and staking peas.
Join Monty in his garden at Long Meadow! Over half of the photos included in this updated edition were shot at his renowned personal garden over the course of a year. Discover how he created this beautiful garden, and how you can do the same in your own.
Design Your Dream Garden
Although organic techniques have always been at the core of his practice, this new edition has a new emphasis on gardening for wildlife and the impact of global warming on the garden. This is a go-to guide for anyone seeking Monty’s gardening advice and the perfect gardening gift for any plant lover, regardless of their experience or budget.
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The Gardening Book: Monty Don
A fresh approach to gardening by bestselling author and the nation’s favourite gardener Monty Don.
‘Think of your garden like a meal. When you select a recipe, you’re choosing it based on inclination, experience and circumstance. Making a garden, big or small, uses exactly the same process.’
If you are new to gardening, it can seem daunting – with Latin names, various soil types and seasonal requirements, it feels like a lot to learn. But with Monty Don’s new book as a guide you will discover just how joyful and rewarding gardening can be.
Whether you want to grow your own veg, create a child-friendly garden, connect with nature, or make the most of houseplants, Monty will help you unlock your space’s potential, showing you what, where and when to plant. The Gardening Book gives you the basics to grow over 100 popular flowers, foods, shrubs, houseplants and more – each one has a clear, concise, format: what you need, timing, method, and step-by-step photos, all on one spread. It’s a refreshingly accessible approach that will help you build a garden which best serves your needs and enhances your lifestyle.
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Evergreen: Discover the Joy in Every Season
Inspired by the wisdom of the natural world, Evergreen is the essential guide for anyone who is looking to unearth their inner strength and bring more joy and contentment into their everyday.
Season by season, Evergreen guides you to reconnect with nature and find balance throughout the inevitable ebb and flow of life. From learning to trust your intuition to embracing the power of amateur status, rethinking your relationship with comparison to seeking solitude when you need it, Lydia Millen takes you by the hand and empowers you with the tools to create your own version of an evergreen life.
Whether Evergreen finds you at a time of peace and fulfilment or a time of challenge and uncertainty, this book will uplift you with a fresh perspective and be a comfort you can return to in every season of your journey to come.
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The Forager’s Calendar: A Seasonal Guide to Nature’s Wild Harvests
‘He writes so engagingly that it’s hard to imagine that actual foraging can be more attractive than reading his accounts of it. …[This book] is a treasure. It is beautifully produced, designed and illustrated.’ – John Carey, The Sunday Times
WINNER OF THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS AWARD FOR FOOD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020
WINNER OF WOODLANDS AWARDS BEST WOODLAND BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020Look out of your window, walk down a country path or go to the beach in Great Britain, and you are sure to see many wild species that you can take home and eat. From dandelions in spring to sloe berries in autumn, via wild garlic, samphire, chanterelles and even grasshoppers, our countryside is full of edible delights in any season.
John Wright is the country’s foremost expert in foraging and brings decades of experience, including as forager at the River Cottage, to this seasonal guide. Month by month, he shows us what species can be found and where, how to identify them, and how to store, use and cook them. You’ll learn the stories behind the Latin names, the best way to tap a Birch tree, and how to fry an ant, make rosehip syrup and cook a hop omelette.
Fully illustrated throughout, with tips on kit, conservation advice and what to avoid, this is an indispensable guide for everyone interested in wild food, whether you want to explore the great outdoors, or are happiest foraging from your armchair.
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The Complete Gardener: A Practical, Imaginative Guide to Every Aspect of Gardening
A Sunday Times bestseller
Even great gardeners like Monty Don are always learning and always experimenting.
The Complete Gardener brings you right up to date on how Monty gardens today.
This extensively revised new edition covers what Monty believes are the most important aspects of gardening today. Whether you’re a beginner or seasoned gardener, it’s time to get your green-fingered hands dirty!
A comprehensive gardening guide that no gardener should be without:
– An introductory chapter that explains the essentials of organic gardening practice
– A structure chapter that shows you how to define space in your garden with hard landscaping and natural options, such as trees, hedges, and topiary
– Discover all different types of flowering plants explaining how to design with them, combine, plant, and care for them
– How to grow fruits and vegetables with in-depth crop-by-crop explanations and which tried-and-tested varieties to choose fromPacked with beautiful illustrations and practical gardening tips, Monty reveals the secrets of growing vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs while respecting the needs of the environment. He covers everything from planning the space and crop rotation to pruning fruit canes and staking peas.
Join Monty in his garden at Long Meadow! Over half of the photos included in this updated edition were shot at his renowned personal garden over the course of a year. Discover how he created this beautiful garden, and how you can do the same in your own.
Design Your Dream Garden
Although organic techniques have always been at the core of his practice, this new edition has a new emphasis on gardening for wildlife and the impact of global warming on the garden. This is a go-to guide for anyone seeking Monty’s gardening advice and the perfect gardening gift for any plant lover, regardless of their experience or budget.
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Paper Airplanes: For Kids (Ages 8-12) Ready to Fold and Fly Paper Airplane Kit with Instructions and Templates. (Paper Airplane Masters)
IT’S TIME TO CREATE HIGH-FLYING ADVENTURE!
Hours of fun coloring the planes, folding them, and flying them. This book comes complete with pre-made designs and different themes, plus three difficulty levels It’s the best paper airplane kit for kids’ ages 8-12!
INCLUDES- Pre-made color-in planes
- Premade folding patterns
- Full instructions
- A history of paper airplanes
- 5 templates of each design to perfect the craft
- 3 levels of difficulty from medium to hard
- Easy to follow folding directions
- Fun pattern pages with unique designs
PRE-MADE PLANE THEMES
- 5 The Basic
- 5 Basic Dart
- 5 Heavy Nosed
- 5 Cross Wing
- 5 The Buzzer
- 5 Spin Plane
- Extra pattern pages
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Adult Swear Words Coloring Book: Live, Laugh, Fuck Off: Swear Words Colouring Book for Adults | Sweary Coloring Book for Stress Relief and Relaxation | Adult Coloring Book Cuss…
Tired after a long day and pissed off because people… happened? Grab your pencils and color away your frustration with this wonderful Swearing Coloring Book for Adults.Features:
- 40 beautiful designs with your favorite cuss words
- single sided coloring pages to prevent bleed-through
- high quality illustration
- designs vary from simple to more intricate to accommodate all skill levels
- makes a great gag gift for family, friends or co-workers
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Clean & Green: 101 Hints and Tips for a More Eco-Friendly Home
Simple swaps and innovative ideas for cleaning and maintaining your home that won’t cost the Earth.
This beautifully illustrated black and white guide with 101 hints and sustainable, natural cleaning tips and hacks will help you take small steps that have a massive positive environmental impact. In Clean & Green, Great British Bake Off winner and Sunday Times bestselling author Nancy Birtwhistle shares the simple recipes and methods she has developed since making a conscious effort to live more sustainably, many of which are faster and easier than the go-to products and methods most of us use now.
From everyday cleaning and laundry tips to zero-effort oven cleaner and guidance on removing tricky stains from clothing and furniture, these economical, practical methods are perfect for anyone looking to reduce their use of plastic and throwaway products. Nancy shares her tried-and-tested recipes for all-purpose cleaners, replacements for harmful chemicals that will keep both your home and the planet clean and green for future generations.
This paperback edition includes ten extra tips.
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Craft Your Year with Sara Davies: Crafting Queen, Dragons’ Den and Strictly Star
INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Step-by-step seasonal crafting guide with over 70 projects to make throughout the year
This easy-to-follow crafting guide from the queen of crafting Sara Davies will help you and your family craft throughout the year, with projects for beginner, intermediate and advanced crafters.
Packed full of ideas, tips and tricks to help you grow in confidence and creativity, as well as useful lists of tools, must-have items and a glossary explaining the key crafting terms and phrases you’ll hear time and again as you craft.
This practical book includes photographs and simple step-by-step instructions to help you make everything need throughout the year, from a Mother’s Day card in spring to a macrame flower hanger in summer, from Halloween treat bags in autumn to a Christmas wreath in winter and everything in-between.
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The Gardener’s Almanac 2024 (National Trust)
Information, inspiration, tips and trivia to help you make the most of your gardening year
This guide to how to look after and enjoy your garden month by month is the ideal thoughtful gift for any gardener. It’s packed with inspiring writing and National Trust know-how that will help beginners and old hands alike.
For each month, you’ll find:
Something to prune
Something to savour
A task to start; a task to finish
A thrifty project
Head gardener’s job of the month – advice from an NT expert
Plant focus – spotlight on plants in season
Wildlife – what to look for, how to help
Weather charts – sunrise and sunset, average temperatures
Trivia – Facts too good to keep to yourself
Quotations – Wit and wisdom from famous gardeners, past and presentThere’s information on enjoying other gardens too – with dates for garden events around the country, including from the National Trust and RHS.
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Variable Valve Timings: Memoirs of a car tragic
‘What defines the car-saddo condition is not being able to recall a time when the toy-car-era of your life actually ended. Because for us sufferers, it never does.’
Nobody knows cars like Chris Harris does. He calls it ‘unhinged geekery’, but the rest of the world call it infectious enthusiasm, adrenalin fuelled escapism and rigorous journalistic integrity.
And then there are his famous skills at the wheel, from city cars to rally cars, not forgetting the Guinness World Record 3.4km sideways in an electric car.
And now for the first time, Harris takes us down the road of his life-long obssession with the automobile – along surprising diversions, around hazards and obstructions, down the fast lane collecting Gs and back to the lock-up to prep the stock.
From the six-year-old who could recite the stats from What Car? magazine to the YouTube car guru whose honest reviews got him banned by Ferrari. From the Scalextric track of his childhood, to podiums as a racing driver out in the world. From behind his garage doors to the floodlit Top Gear studio.
Variable Valve Timings brings you an incredibly engaging story of adventure and petrolhead joy, told with wit, warmth and disarming honesty. This book is a true one-off, just like Chris.
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£15.20£20.90Variable Valve Timings: Memoirs of a car tragic
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