Josiah Wedgwood I was born into a family of potters & became the finest marketing man of his era. His pioneering spirit built up the most important English pottery business of the eighteenth century so that the name Wedgwood became a generic word for fine earthenware. He is justly famous for perfecting the Black Basalt & Jasper stoneware bodies & for producing many designs based on the antique artefacts excavated at Pompeii & Herculaneum. This book also reviews & illustrates the firms products through the nineteenth century the designs of Lessore Dresser Crane & Barnard the resurgence after 1904 when John Goodwin became art director & the subsequent restablishment of the firms essential greatness. ...

WEDLOCK is the remarkable story of the Countess of Strathmore & her marriage to Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary Eleanor Bowes was one of Britains richest young heiresses. She married the Count of Strathmore who died young & pregnant with her lovers child Mary became engaged to George Gray. Then in swooped Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary was bowled over & married him within the week. But nothing was as it seemed. Stoney was broke & his pursuit of the wealthy Countess a calculated ploy. Once married to Mary he embarked on years of ill treatment seizing her lands beating her terrorising servants introducing prostitutes to the family home kidnapping his own sister. But finally after many years a servant helped Mary to escape. She began a high-profile divorce case that was the scandal of the day & was successful. But then Andrew kidnapped her & undertook a week-long rampage of terror & cruelty until the law finally caught up with him. ...

' It would be easy to become addicted to Robinson'
- Observer". ' One of the grand masters of the genre'
- " Literary Review".

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Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching thinks her Granny Aching
- a wise shepherd
- might have been a witch but now Granny Aching is dead

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There're a lot of edges more than people know. Between life & death this world & the next.. .an' they need watchin'.. .' There's trouble on the Wold its boundaries weak since Granny Aching
- the hag o' the hills
- died. Now all there is to stop the nightmares from taking over is young Tiffany Aching who's learning fast about duty about responsibility & about who she is & what she is. Luckily she's got the help of the Nac Mac Feegle
- a band of tiny disreputable pictsies known as the Wee Free Men. They'll fight anything.. .


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Following the success of our popular Pink Flamingos Gift Set this humorous little incarnation of the classic kitschy lawn ornament will be at home anywhere from the backyard posy patch to the office desktop. Rumored to bring a bit o' luck to the owner the colorful garden gnome will at the very least bring a smile. ...

I was lying dead in the churchyard... So says eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce
- but soon a murder provides a gruesome distraction
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not been discovered. Ralph Waldo Emerson This book is a practical & attractive guide to the many edible varieties of weed. It will appeal to gardeners botanists cooks & foragers & to anyone who wants to control weeds in eco-friendly ways. Weeds have many virtues: * They are often valuable to wildlife including beneficial insects. * They can be good for the soil
- helping the accumulation of trace elements & acting as hosts for mycorrhizal fungi. * Many weeds make interesting & unusual culinary ingredients. The main part of the book provides full details of over 50 edible species with valuable nutritional information advice on how to cook them & numerous recipe suggestions as well as some fascinating historical facts & tips for non-culinary uses. It covers both native & non-native species including some tiresome invasives & lists both common weeds such as nettle dandelion chickweed & ground elder & less common ones such as brooklime & wintercress. Advice is also given on controlling weeds & identifying those that are harmful if eaten. With The Weeders Digest on your bookshelf you can put your troublesome weeds to good use & welcome some plentiful edibles into your kitchen. It

Includes:: attractive colour photographs throughout.


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Gardeners find weeds baffling & daunting. Here at last comes a practical guide which explains how weeds work & how best to deal with them. Whenever he is gardening William Edmonds sees Charles Darwin as his mentor. Darwin was intrigued by the nature of variation in plants & how this related to which plants thrived & survived. From his minute observations we can understand how weeds can propagate & take over a garden. Informed by Darwin's insights & by over thirty years of gardening experience William Edmonds describes & illustrates one hundred significant garden weeds arranged in the order in which they have evolved. For each there is a What To Do & a further chapter sets out the pros & cons of twenty tried & tested approaches to weeding. Learning to recognise understand & deal with each weed will take you well on the way to coping in a relaxed
- even enjoyable
- tussle with these devilish despoilers. Weeds Weeding (& Darwin) is an enlightening guidebook for every gardener.

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When someone describes a bitter woman as having: A mouth like a kirby grip" or a depressed man as having: "A face like a horse in the huff" you can be fairly sure that you have strayed into Weegie Wan-Liners territory. This is the latest collection of Glaswegiana the straightforward insults the sly digs & the outright threats culled from pubs & howffs citywide by Ian Black master of the quick sidestep learned as he practised these gems especially from the ex-friends to whom he said: " Listen bampot features when you were born they slung the wean & kept the afterbirth"." ...