One of the Guardian's TOP TEN BOOKS to gift' It's practical & beautiful an ideal gift ' Graham Norton BBC Radio 2 Britain's best-loved cook & national treasure Mary Berry lets readers in on her very own household secrets A comprehensive beautifully illustrated guide that shares her greatest tips on how to care for your home ' This book is a collection of skills I've learned for running a home Gleaned from years of practical experience along with all the hints that friends & family have imparted to me I hope it will be a helping hand'
- Mary Berry Inside you'll find A KITCHEN KNOW-HOW for the heart of your home
- Freezer tips
- Organize your food
- CLEANING & CONFIGURING YOUR HOME
- Create cleaning products from store cupboard items
- LAUNDRY & WARDROBE WISDOM
- Banish moths from your home for good
- Remove stains from every kind of fabric
- get green fingered with GARDENING & FLOWERS
- Bring greenery into your home even without a garden
- Create beautiful flower arrangements
- & finally master the art of HOSTING & ADDING THE EXTRA TOUCHES for sparkling parties at home Easy to use practical & gorgeously illustrated Mary's Household Tips & Tricks covers everything from Mary's golden rules for baking to her favourite flowers for each season from how to polish silver to whether tea should be poured before or after milk With secrets for accomplishing the most challenging home-keeping tasks with ease Mary's wonderfully simple book will help turn any house into a home' The Queen of British baking has whipped up a recipe for home happiness' The Independent'A domestic goddess' The Daily Telegraph











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The dark captivating story of one remarkable woman & her monster Creative genius? Inventor of science fiction? Pregnant teenage runaway? Who was the real Mary Shelley? Publishing to mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein Mary's Monster is the compelling & beautifully illustrated story of Mary Shelley
- the original rebel girl When her fractured bond with her beloved father & her elopement with the mercurial (and married) poet Percy Bysshe Shelley at the age of 16 led her to Switzerland few could have imagined the consequence would be such a book But in the crucible of societal disapproval & tenuous circumstances Mary Shelley created Frankenstein & his monster forged in the fire of her troubled & tragic life Part biography part fantasy & part feminist allegory Mary's Monster is an engrossing take on one remarkable woman & her monster
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The true story of Mary Queen of Scots' escape from Lochleven Castle has been adapted into a spectacular children's picture book by multi-award-winning author Theresa Breslin with stunning illustrations packed with drama & historical detail 32 pages colour illustrations Breslin Theresa ...

Tracklist Kont Rayeh Nefsif Akli Ekaa Maksour Mathaf Fonoun El Ghesh Mazzikaw Khof Woshoush El Leil Makonsh Wakoun Ayez Awsal ...

Written by MARZENA SOWA Art & cover by SYLVAIN SAVOIA am Marzi born in 1979 ten years before the end of communism in Poland My father works at a factory my mother at a dairy Social problems are at their height Empty stores are our daily bread I scared of spiders & the world of adults doesnt seem like a walk in the park Told from a young girl perspective Marzena Sowa memoir of a childhood shaped by politics feels remarkably fresh & immediate Structured as a series of vignettes that build on one another MARZI is a compelling & powerful coming-of-age story that portrays the harsh realities of life behind the Iron Curtain while maintaining the everyday wonders & curiosity of childhood With open & engaging art by Sylvain Savoia MARZI is a moving & resonant story of an ordinary girl in turbulent changing times ...

Tracklist A1 June 612 A2 Words Of Wind
- Part 1 253 A3 Oasis 1024 B1 Song Of Soil 448 B2 Words Of Wind
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A little girl learns about the Masai tribe at school & daydreams about what her life would have been like if she had been born into the tall proud East African tribe Comparing her life & theirs she celebrates both the differences & the similarities & she learns that she has her own spiritual & even physical kinship with them The text & pictures achieve a perfect harmony The comparisons are always positive A joy of a book' Junior Education ...

From Kyosuke Usuta's legendary anime series ' Sexy Commando Gaiden Sugoi yo!! Masaru-san' comes a figma of the main character Masaru Hananakajima! Using the smooth yet posable joints of figma you can act out a variety of different scenes A flexible plastic is used for important areas allowing proportions to be kept without compromising posability He comes with three face plates including a smiling face a shouting expression with sparkling eyes & a winking expression to recreate his 'want you' pose! The mascot character from the series ' Meso' is included & a drink can together with spraying effect parts are also included He also comes with alternate 'trendy' back hair parts as well as special parts to pose him with his zipper open to recreate various scenes from the series Careful attention has been given to all the finer details of the figure including the print on his shoes An articulated figma stand is included which allows various poses to be taken ...

Artists Masayoshi Fujita Label Erased Tapes Format Vinyl 12 Album Coloured Vinyl Tracks 1 Deers 2 Snow Storm 3 Cloud 4 Story of Forest 5 Story of Waterfall I & II6 Swan & Morning Dews 7 River 8 Memories of the Wind ...

Attend a Masquerade of the renaissance & try to discover the identity of your opponents Who is telling the truth? Who is bluffing? Reveal the truth all while hiding your own true identity! The goal of the game is for players to gain the most gold pieces that they will amass either by telling the truth or alternatively bluffing Players each receive a Character card that they will switch or not with their opponents throughout the game play At each turn players have the option to either announce who there are & therefore are able to activate the power of that Character as long as none of the other players challenge them; to secretly look at their card; or to swap their card with another player Players in Mascarade start with six coins & a randomly dealt a character card Characters stay face up just long enough for players to more or less memorize them then are turned face down Your goal is to be the first player to hold 13 coins & while you start nearly halfway to that goal you can go down just as surely as you can go up! On a turn you take one of three actions 1) Announce your character Claim the power of a certain character & take the associated action You don&t have to have that character card in front of you to take this action but if someone else says that they&re that character & reveals the card to prove it that player takes the action instead while you lose one coin to the tribunal 2) Swap cards or not Take another player&s character card along with yours place them under the table shuffle them around a bit then give one card back to the other player while keeping one for yourself You (presumably) know whether you changed characters & can have some idea of who you are now but that other player might be in the dark 3) Secretly look at your character Look at your character card to make sure of who you are Play continues until one player obtains 13 coins & wins! Content 13 Character cards 1 Blank character card 1 courthouse boardcoins 14 Character markers including a blank character marker A player aid Rulebook Features A game of bluff & characters Options for 2 player & 3 player games Scalability in game play 2-13 players 10 Age 30 Minute gameplay ...