Belle & Boo are the enchanting characters created by artist Mandy Sutcliffe. Belle is a little girl with a brown bob the odd scratch on her knee & an insistent curiosity about the natural world while her pet rabbit Boo a flopsy brown bunny is her faithful friend & confidant. Along with a group of additional characters Belle & Boo inhabit a sweetly nostalgic world where they spend their days playing in a pirate treehouse cloud-spotting from hot-air balloons or riding a fairground carousel. With 25 innovative makes & ideas The Belle & Boo Book of Craft provides all the inspiration & know-how needed to bring to life this magical childhood world. Special sewing projects include an irresistible cuddly rabbit toy a delightful washingline wendy house & an intrepid explorer's canvas satchel for playtime as well as a robust beanbag & stylish toy storage for your child's room. There are also simple papercraft ideas for decorations & party pieces such as paper boat place-settings & a hot-air balloon mobile. Containing a mixture of charming illustrations & photographs this enchanting book will help you to discover the many delightful worlds that Mandy creates with her deceptively simple but stylish images of Belle & Boo. ...

Enter the charming world of Belle & Boo a bob-haired little girl & her adorable bunny friend. Follow the adventures of this curious pair as they enjoy the simple pleasures of childhood drawing us into a magical world of imagination & discovery. Today is an extra-special day
- its someones birthday! Belle & Boo know just how to get ready for birthdays
- they make a card bake a cake & blow up balloons. But whose birthday could it be? & what is the special surprise that Belle has planned? This beautiful book with vintage-inspired illustrations is perfect for fans of Beatrix Potter Winnie the Pooh & Milly-Molly-Mandy. This hardback edition comes with a free limited-edition Belle & Boo art print.

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Its bedtime for Belle & Boo. Time for a bath time for milk & cookies time for a story. But when Boo decides its time to hide he almost misses the most important part of bedtime. This is the second delightful picture book starring Belle & Boo a bob-haired little girl & her adorable bunny friend. Follow their adventures as they explore the simple pleasures of childhood drawing the reader into a magical world of imagination & discovery. This charming tale with vintage-inspired illustrations is perfect for fans of Beatrix Potter Winnie the Pooh & Milly-Molly-Mandy. ...

Belle de Jour is a woman whos met men of every conceivable type. She knows what they want & how to give it to them. & outside the one-hour appointments shes also had her heart broken picked herself back up put on another stunning pair of shoes & carried on
- so she knows a thing or two about love as well as sex. So sit back relax & listen to what your friends are too polite to tell you. About when you need or want a man & when you damn well dont. Whether you want to find men lure them ditch them hitch them
- heres the lowdown. Funny surprising & always entertaining BELLE DE JOURS GUIDE TO MEN is must-have reading for every woman out there.

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Belle the Birthday Fairy's job is to make sure that all birthdays in Fairyland & the human world are filled with joy & laughter! But there is one mean creature who is incapable of enjoying even this special day... Jack Frost! He has a birthday coming up but as he's very vain he decides that he is not going to celebrate it all...and if he's not going to enjoy his birthday then neither will anyone else! & so he steals Belle's magical items & hides them in cunning places causing chaos for birthdays everywhere. Will Rachel & Kirsty be able to help Belle find her items or are birthdays ruined forever...? ...

Bellies & Bullseyes" is simply the greatest account there will ever be about the sport of darts
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When Joseph the Bellmaker is warned in a dream that his daughter Mariel is in danger his hopes of saving her are slim. For the evil Foxwolf & his horde of rats are coming to Southsward & Mariel is his prisoner. But Joseph & his four young warrior friends lead a crusade against Foxwolf & his invading grey rat army. & can the legendary Martin the Warrior return from the past to save them. Or is it too late.. .? ...

Pretty seventeen-year-old Greta has never known a stable family life. With no father & loathing her mother Ruby's latest boyfriend Greta finds life hard at home & is happiest at work with her friends at the Cadbury factory in Birmingham where she is popular with the boys. Life takes a turn for the worse when her missing vixen of a sister Marleen turns up during the freezing winter of 1962. Greta soon decides that her only way out is marriage but all too soon she discovers that life with her old class mate Trevor is not a ticket to freedom & happiness. She finds herself on the streets pregnant & homeless... She is taken in by her mother's old friends Edie & Anatoli Gruschov. In Anatoli Greta finds the father she has never had. Kindly Edie loves to mother people & is desperately missing her son David & his family who have settled in Israel. But the love & security of this haven is soon shattered by appalling tragedy which affects all the chocolate girls & their children & changes life forever... Continuing the saga begun in Chocolate Girls & set in 1960s Birmingham this is a story of families whose lives are entwined of belonging & loss...and of a young woman's search for transforming love. ...

When Stella Simmons comes to the Devonshire village of Burracombe to start her teaching career she is alone in the world. Orphaned as child & brought up in a childrens home she was separated from her sister Muriel & has never been able to trace her. Stella is soon caught up in the life of the village & especially in the plans for celebrating the Festival of Britain. As headmistress Miss Kemp & vicar Basil Harvey try to keep the peace between villagers who all have their own ideas for the proposed pageant & fair Stella tries with the help of artist Luke Ferris to find her sister. But Luke has his own troubles...THE BELLS OF BURRACOMBE begins the story of life in a Devonshire village in the 1950s & shows us a picture of Britain coming to terms with the aftermath of the Second World War & entering a new decade. ...

In 1930 Bridget O' Brien a young widow with two children fled her brutal & bigoted father & headed for Liverpool & an arranged marriage with a man she had never met. Her destination the famous Scotland Road was noisome & terrifying & a far cry from the clean air & flowing rivers of the only country she had known Irel&. When she met her middle-aged bridegroom Sam Bell whose twin sons were older than she was her sense of isolation only increased. Anthony one of her so-called stepsons also held out the strong hand of friendship but Liam the favourite of his father had the power to terrify her. Liam was cold compelling mysterious & antagonistic. He was also a priest. ...