Its Christmas Eve & Santas favourite time of year.

He sings & laughs noisily, as he delivers his presents. Will his high

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Shiatsu is a traditional method of treating illness through stimulating points & meridians with the fingers, thumbs & palms. This book is an instructive manual for pregnant women, practitioners, partners & birthing partners. The author provides practical solutions to a host of problems associated with pregnancy. ...

Features step by step photographs & instructions that demonstrate how to use acid dyes & cold water reactive dyes, & techniques such as steam fixing, discharging on silk, & space dyeing. This work shows how shibori techniques such as binding, hand painting, capping, stitching, & folding & clamping can be used to create dyed fabrics. ...

In 1173 the rebellious sons of King Henry II ignite unrest & bloody warfare throughout Engl&. When mercenary soldier Joscelin de Gael encounters Linnet de Montsorrel on the road to London, he has no inkling of how much she is about to change his life, nor does she realise the effect he is going to have on hers. Both Joscelin & Linnet are survivors, scarred by their pasts, but their greatest challenge is facing the future as old wounds are torn open amid bitter & deadly family conflicts. ...

The year is 1016 & England burns while the Viking armies blockade the great city of London. King Ethelred lies dying & the England he knew dies with him; the warring kingdoms of Mercia, Wessex & Northymbria tremble on the brink of great change. One man lives to bear witness to the upheaval: Godwin, barely out of boyhood & destined to become one of his country's great warriors. When Ethelred's son Edmund takes the throne, determined to succeed where his father failed, he plucks Godwin from domestic peace to be right-hand man in his loyal shield wall. Godwin must traverse the meadows, wintry forests & fogbound marshes of Saxon Engl&, raising armies of monks, ploughmen & shepherds against the Viking invader. With epic courage & ferocity, Godwin & Edmund repel the butchering Danes in three great battles. But an old enemy, the treacherous Earl Eadric, dogs Godwin's footsteps, & as the final battle approaches, around the valiant English the trap begins to close. ...

In a future less than fifty years away, the world is still as we know it. Time continues to tick by. The truth is that it is ticking away. A powerful few know what lies ahead. They are preparing for it. They are trying to protect us. They are setting us on a path from which we can never return. This title tells the history of the silo. ...

The much-loved picture book pair of pooches continue their adventures in a two-colour fiction format, ideal for children growing in confidence as readers & beginning to read alone. In the title story, Shifty & Sam lead the way in a wacky race that has been sabotaged by the one & only Red Rocket! ...

Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but common fact. Yet even the hardened coastguard knows something is wrong when a beautiful young film actress is found lying dead on the beach one morning. Inspector Grant has to take a more professional attitude: death by suicide, however common, has to have a motive. ...

In Miami Beach, all hell is breaking loose. First, a swimmer makes a gruesome discovery in a rowboat, & soon after the city is rocked by an explosion. When Detective Sam Becket's sister-in-law Claudia becomes a blackmail victim, Sam wants to help her an ...

The second book in the brilliant, moving & uplifting new series about one girls adventures in the afterlife, from the bestselling author of The Immortals series. Having solved the matter of the Radiant Boy, Riley, Buttercup, & Bodhi are enjoying a little time-off. But then Riley encounters a young ghost named Rebecca. Despite Rebeccas sweet appearance, Riley soon learns shes not at all what she seems. As the daughter of a former plantation owner, Rebecca is furious about being murdered during the slave revolt of 1733. Her uncontrollable anger is keeping other ghosts, who also died in the revolt, trapped in a shimmering bubble. & when Bodhi & Buttercup inadvertently fall into Rebecca's trap, Riley is the only one who can save them. A suspenseful & heart-warming novel about the great hereafter. ...