A comprehensive step-by-step guide to embroidery with over 225 stitches & techniques plus a range of fresh & modern projects Learn the basic stitches & master 8 different embroidery styles including blackwork crewelwork hardanger pulled thread goldwork & freestyle Every stitch has clear step-by-step instructions & is accompanied by colour diagrams & you can practise your new-found skills with 18 beautiful things to make for yourself & your home from bags & accessories to gifts & home decor ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Directed by future Hammer stalwart Terence Fisher this entertaining light-hearted crime thriller centres around the adventures of sleuthing reporters Mike Billings (John Bentley) & Jenny Drew (Hy Hazell) as they try to unravel the alibi of a suspected murderer Stolen Assignment is presented here in a br&-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio Henry Crossley is an artist whose wife is spending a week&s holiday with her aunt But when her aunt comes to see him worried because her niece has not arrived a police investigation into her disappearance begins It seems that Henry was fully occupied at the time his wife went missing; but is his alibi completely truthful? ...

' Some books set up house inside your soul Utterly magnificent'
- M R Carey A remote island off the west coast of Ireland St Brigid's
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The Stolen Marriage is a compelling novel from Diane Chamberlain the bestselling author of The Silent Sister Pretending to Dance & The Midwife's Confession In 1944 twenty-three-year-old Tess De Mello abruptly ends her engagement to the love of her life when she marries a mysterious stranger & moves to Hickory North Carolina Hickory is a small town struggling with racial tension & the hardships imposed by World War II Tess's new husband Henry Kraft is a secretive man who often stays out all night hides money from his new wife & shows no interest in making love Tess quickly realizes she's trapped in a strange & loveless marriage with no way out The people of Hickory love & respect Henry & see Tess as an outsider treating her with suspicion & disdain especially after one of the town's prominent citizens dies in a terrible accident & Tess is blamed for the death Tess suspects people are talking about her plotting behind her back & following her as she walks around town What does everyone know about Henry that she does not? Feeling alone & adrift in a hostile town Tess turns to the one person who seems to understand her
- a local medium who gives her hope but seems to know more than he's letting on When a sudden polio epidemic strikes the town taking the lives of some of its children including a boy well known to the Kraft family the townspeople band together to build a polio hospital in less than three days Tess who has a nursing degree bucks Henry's wishes & begins to work at the hospital finding meaning in nursing the young victims Yet at home Henry's actions grow more baffling & alarming by the day As Tess works to save the lives of her patients can she untangle her husband's mysterious behavior & save her own life?
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The Stolen Marriage is a compelling novel from Diane Chamberlain the bestselling author of The Silent Sister Pretending to Dance & The Midwife's Confession In 1944 twenty-three-year-old Tess De Mello abruptly ends her engagement to the love of her life when she marries a mysterious stranger & moves to Hickory North Carolina Hickory is a small town struggling with racial tension & the hardships imposed by World War II Tess's new husband Henry Kraft is a secretive man who often stays out all night hides money from his new wife & shows no interest in making love Tess quickly realizes she's trapped in a strange & loveless marriage with no way out The people of Hickory love & respect Henry & see Tess as an outsider treating her with suspicion & disdain especially after one of the town's prominent citizens dies in a terrible accident & Tess is blamed for the death Tess suspects people are talking about her plotting behind her back & following her as she walks around town What does everyone know about Henry that she does not? Feeling alone & adrift in a hostile town Tess turns to the one person who seems to understand her
- a local medium who gives her hope but seems to know more than he's letting on When a sudden polio epidemic strikes the town taking the lives of some of its children including a boy well known to the Kraft family the townspeople band together to build a polio hospital in less than three days Tess who has a nursing degree bucks Henry's wishes & begins to work at the hospital finding meaning in nursing the young victims Yet at home Henry's actions grow more baffling & alarming by the day As Tess works to save the lives of her patients can she untangle her husband's mysterious behavior & save her own life?
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Marcia Williams brings the Stone Age to life in her much-loved comic strip style Join Marcia Williams on a journey to the Stone Age Meet the people of Clan Woolly as they hunt mammoths & reindeer learn how to make fire invent stone tools & turn wild wolves into tame dogs! Full of facts jokes & colourful comic strips this is the perfect introduction to the Stone Age
- a time before history was even invented!
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Marcia Williams brings the Stone Age to life in her much-loved comic strip style Join Marcia Williams on a journey to the Stone Age Meet the people of Clan Woolly as they hunt mammoths & reindeer learn how to make fire invent stone tools & turn wild wolves into tame dogs! Full of facts jokes & colourful comic strips this is the perfect introduction to the Stone Age
- a time before history was even invented!
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0pt;font-family Times New Romanserif; color B1255E'A fast-paced & thrilling crime tale set by the beach While trying to enjoy his summer Finn finds himself in the middle of a murder scene when balancing stones under the cliffs Already dealing with an ill mother & a turbulent uncle Finn suddenly has a lot more on his plate Now it is his duty to find out exactly what went on down at his favourite part of the beachbefore the worst happens ...

A poor stone cutter who wished he was a rich man has his wish granted He then keeps changing his wish & each wish is granted Finally he wishes himself back as he was at the start of the story Turquoise Band 7 books offer literay language & extended descriptions with longer sentences & a wide range of unfamiliar terms Text type
- A story from another culture (Japan) The flowcharts on pages 22 & 23 illustrate the story in sequence providing opportunities for speaking & listening & scaffolding writing Curriculum links
- Citizenship Choices; Music Exploring sounds This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery

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The Stone Gods is one of Jeanette Winterson's most imaginative novels -- an interplanetary love story; a traveller's tale; a hymn to the beauty of the world On the airwaves all the talk is of the new blue planet
- pristine & habitable like our own 65 million years ago before we took it to the edge of destruction & off the air Billie & Spike are falling in love What will happen when their story combines with the world's story as they whirl towards Planet Blue into the future? Will they
- & we
- ever find a safe landing place?


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