A captivating magical & haunting debut novel of breathtaking imagination from the winner of the 2014 Costa Short Story Award The remote island village of Neverness is a world far from our time & place The air hangs rich with the coconut-scent of gorse & the salty bite of the sea Harsh winds scour the rocky coastline The villagers' lives are inseparable from nature & its enchantments Verlyn Webbe born with a wing for an arm unfurls his feathers in defiance of past shame; Plum is snatched by a water bull & dragged to his lair; little Crab Skerry takes his first run through the gorse-maze; Madden sleepwalks through violent storms haunted by horses & her father's wishes As the tales of this island community interweave over the course of a generation their earthy desires resentments idle gossip & painful losses create a staggeringly original world Crackling with echoes of ancient folklore but entirely wonderfully her own Zoe Gilbert's Folk is a dark beautiful & intoxicating debut ...

Designed for greater flexibility in courses on children's literature this inexpensive concise anthology focuses on variants of classic fairy tales 200 pages 7 illustrations ...

Folk Art is a colouring book for adults that contains 30 amazing art activities involving patterning shading & colouring Each vibrantly detailed charming & international folk illustration offers an easy way to de-stress while allowing you to unleash the artist within Thaneeya Mc Ardle's transcendental art explores a visual language of shape form line & colour & can be easily personalised with felt- tips coloured pencils crayons gel pens or watercolours Beautifully coloured finished examples are provided along with a handy guide to basic art techniques from patterning & combinations to shading & colour theory Both traditional & contemporary artworks are included inspired by the living cultures of indigenous people around the world This therapeutic colouring book is printed on high-quality extra-thick paper that won't bleed through & all of the pages are perforated for easy removal & display ...

A dynamic resurgence in sewing & knitting is under way with many people enjoying making & mending their own garments at home However stories abound of homemade clothes languishing at the back of the wardrobe Amy Twigger Holroyd draws on ideas of fashion culture & craft to explore makers& lived experiences of creating & wearing homemade clothes in a society dominated by shop-bought garments Using the innovative metaphor of fashion as common land Folk Fashion investigates the complex relationship between making well-being & sustainability Twigger Holroyd combines her own experience as a designer & knitter with first-hand accounts from folk fashion makers to explore this fascinating yet under-examined area of contemporary fashion culture Looking to the future she also considers how sewers & knitters might maximise the radical potential of their activities ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZEIn Victorian times England was famously dubbed the land without music
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The Folklore Storyteller screen is a promotional item not part of the original kickstarter campaign It contains 4 panels showcasing the characters creatures & afflictions from the game in a grim montage on the front facing panels whilst the inner panels contain percentile roll tables from the Adventure creation kit if the story narrator wishes to spontaneously produce some minor content for the other players outside of the scripted story structure ...

The diminutive Folland Gnat was originally developed as a light & affordable jet fighter but went on to be used extensively by the Royal Air Force as an advanced fast jet training aircraft Entering RAF service in 1959 the Gnat was responsible for training many hundreds of future fast jet pilots during its 20 year service career ...

'A classic whodunit with a contemporary edge' Cecily Von Ziegesar praise for The Amateurs Everyone knows Chelsea Dawson Day & night her tens of thousands of followers on Instagram watch her every move So when she goes missing from the sunny beachside town of Lafayette it makes headlines The police are searching everywhere for her kidnapper but when eighteen-year-old Seneca Frazier sees Chelsea's picture she knows instantly who took her Chelsea looks exactly like her friend Aerin Kelly's murdered sister
- & Seneca's own mother who was killed five years ago Seneca's suspicions are confirmed when the killer contacts her threatening to hurt Chelsea if Seneca goes to the police with what she knows Seneca makes the only move she can reaching out to Aerin & Maddox & Madison Wright her friends from Case Not Closed an amateur crime-solving community Together they go to Lafayette to work the case to save Chelsea & to bring the killer to justice But the killer has a plan of his own He wants Seneca & her friends in Lafayette but he wants them to play by his rules One wrong step could mean the end for Chelsea
- or the Amateurs The second book in the thrilling new crime series from bestselling author Sara Shepard

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A thrilling read for fans of Gone Girl & We Were Liars There was no sign of a struggle they whisper to each other She took her phone but left her laptop behind Apparently she'd met someone online they write to each other in class phones buzzing She ran away She was taken The first time Aiden Kendrick hears about Lizzie Summersall's disappearance is when the police appear at his front door He & Lizzie used to be friends; they aren't anymore & when Aiden finds out that Lizzie had been talking to strangers on Facebook; that the police think she went to meet one of them he begins to wonder how well he ever really knew her & Aiden doesn't know it yet but with Lizzie's disappearance his life is about to take a twisted & desperate turn ...

Follow point press! A finger-play activity book for young children Follow Me features 30 simple puzzles that can be completed using just a finger 14 pages Embossing on every page ...