This entry-level book introduces the simple yet gorgeous art of colouring pre-anodized sheets of aluminium. Brilliant bold & totally cool: anodized aluminium makes it easy to create fun & eye-catching graphic jewellery. Twelve step-by-step projects guide readers through the process of turning the coloured aluminium into jewellery. Brilliant bold & totally cool: anodized aluminium makes it easy to create fun & eye-catching graphic jewellery. This entry-level book introduces the simple yet gorgeous art of colouring pre-anodized sheets of aluminium using such techniques as dip & over dying hand painting dripping spraying silk screening & more. Twelve step-by-step projects guide readers through the process of turning the coloured aluminium into jewellery & an extensive gallery throughout will inspire. ...

Commissario Brunetti's hopes of a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are once again dashed when a gruesome discovery is made in Marghera
- a body so badly beaten the face is unrecognizable. Brunetti searches Venice for someone who can identify the dead man. But he is met with a wall of silence. Then he receives a telephone call from a contact who promises some tantalizing information. & before the night is out Brunetti is confronting yet another appalling & apparently senseless death.. .
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Anorexia is a serious mental illness which is too often stereotyped glamorised misunderstood simplified & belittled. There can be no simple straightforward explanation for an illness as thoroughly complex as Anorexia Nervosa. Eating Disorders affect around 1.6 million people in the UK & although Anorexia is not the most common it is the most deadly. Characterised by an overwhelming fear of weight gain those affected dramatically reduce their food intake & may also over-exercise vomit or use laxatives in a desperate bid to lose weight. Anorexia does not discriminate. It affects people of all ages genders ethnicity race & religion. With this book the author hopes to expel the myths & stereotypes that exist about Anorexia & help you to understand the true meaning of Anorexia above & beyond those age-old explanations that only ever scratch the surface. ...

Longer! Higher! Steeper! The sequel to the bestselling 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs is packed with another century of stunning ...

Longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize this is a superb second novel from the author of the multiple-award winning ' Saraswati ...

ANOTHER DAY
- Eighteen years after being disowned by her father for falling pregnant Kirsty Lennox returns to Paisley determined
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A new memoir from Sunday Times & New York Times bestselling author Cathy Glass. Eight-year-old Aimee was on the child protection register at birth. Her five older siblings were taken into care many years ago. So no one can understand why she was left at home to suffer for so long. It seems Aimee was forgotten. The social services are looking for a very experienced foster carer to look after Aimee & when she reads the referral Cathy understands why. Despite her reservations Cathy agrees to Aimee on
- there is something about her that reminds Cathy of Jodie (the subject of ' Damaged' & the most disturbed child Cathy has cared for) & reading the report instantly tugs at her heart strings. When she arrives Aimee is angry. & she has every right to be. She has spent the first eight years of her life living with her drug-dependent mother in a flat that the social worker described as 'not fit for human habitation'. Aimee is so grateful as she snuggles into her bed at Cathy's house on the first night that it brings Cathy to tears. Aimee's aggressive mother is constantly causing trouble at contact & makes sweeping allegations against Cathy & her family in front of her daughter as well. It is a trying time for Cathy & it makes it difficult for Aimee to settle. But as Aimee begins to trust Cathy she starts to open up. & the more Cathy learns about Aimee's life before she came into care the more horrified she becomes. It's clear that Aimee should have been rescued much sooner & as her journey seems to be coming to a happy end Cathy can't help but reflect on all the other 'forgotten children' that are still suffering...
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Kicked out of yet another boarding school Archie couldnt be happier to find himself back in London with old friends & an exciting social life. But hes worried about his cousin Ty who is facing a sentence in a Young Offender Institution & doesnt seem to be coping. & hes finding that his old friends have moved on & its a struggle to keep up with their new lives. When he begins to learn surprising things about Ty Archie goes on a mission to discover the truth about his cousins past. But who is the real Ty? The thrilling follow-up to When I Was Joe & Almost True takes readers on a terrifying adventure through Londons gangl&. ...

Its 1909 & Molly May her husband lost at sea & presumed dead has escaped from her cruel in-laws in Liverpool along the Leeds-Liverpool canal to Burscough Bridge. Here she gives birth to a baby girl. Handsome widower Nathan Collins employs her as a wet-nurse to his daughter Jessica. But tragedy strikes when Jessica is found dead in her cot. Molly is terrified that she will be accused of murder so when her own daughter is mistaken for Jessica she is unable to tell the truth. Acting as a nanny to her own child isnt as hard as Molly imagined especially as her relationship with Nathan deepens. But there is trouble ahead. Nathans scheming mother Dorothy wastes no opportunity to remind Molly of her lowly position. & how can Molly win Nathan who because of her lies is raising another mans child as his own? ...

It was as I was walking into the drama class that I remembered the girl I had bumped into & the green sweater just like mine. That was what had got Mrs Watt mixed up. She had seen the girl in the green sweater & thought it was me. That was the simple explanation. Wasnt it? Fay cant help thinking it odd that people start remarking on conversations she knows she hasnt had or saying they have seen her when she knows she was somewhere else. But then she starts hearing muffled footsteps behind her the flash of fair hair just like hers around the corner. Is she imagining things? ...