The second title in the new Usborne Very First Reading" series designed for younger children to introduce them to reading together with their parents. Parents & children take turns to read from the page (the text clearly marked for who should be reading) & as the books progress in the series the adults read less & less & the child more & more. There are puzzles at the end to check the childs understanding of the text & guidance notes for the parents. Beautiful illustrations help to motivate beginner readers." ...

This is an easy & accessible sticker book filled with opportunities to dress the children in their fancy-dress costumes. Using over 130 big stickers of clothes & accessories children can dress the boy & girl characters for various party themes. Costumes include mermaids pirates princesses knights firefighters astronauts cowgirls superheroes ballerinas robots & fairies though children are allowed to let their imaginations run wild & mix & match as they please. ...

Torn between her dreams & the truth she was faced with an impossible choice.. . Tess an aspiring seamstress is stunned at her luck when the famous designer Lady Lucile Duff Gordon hires her to be a personal maid on the Titanic's doomed voyage. When disaster strikes Tess is one of the last people allowed on a lifeboat
- her employer also survives. On dry land savage rumours begin to circulate: did Lady Duff Gordon save herself at the expense of others? Tess's dream of becoming a skilled dressmaker is within her grasp but now she is faced with a terrible choice. Suddenly she finds herself torn between loyalty to the fiery woman who could help her realise her ambitions & the devastating truth that her mentor may not be all she seems. authentic & honest The Dressmaker is a compelling & vivid story that will have you holding your breath until the last page. * Shortlisted for the Goodreads Historical Novel Award*
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Forced from her fathers humble Norfolk vicarage Ellen Gowan finds herself in an unforgiving London. At fifteen she falls for Raoul de Valentin the dangerous descendant of French aristocrats. Raoul marries Ellen for her brilliance as a designer but abandons his wife when she becomes pregnant. Determined that she & her daughter will survive Ellen begins her long climb to success. Toiling first in an east-end factory she finally opens her own salon in Berkeley Square. One single dress a ball gown created for the enigmatic Countess of Hawksmoor transforms Ellens fortunes & as the years pass her business thrives. She tells the world
- & her daughter
- shes a widow. But then Raoul de Valentin returns & threatens to destroy all that Ellen has achieved.

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When the Taliban took control of Kabul Kamila Sidiqi & all the women of Kabul saw their lives transformed. Overnight they were banned from schools & offices & even forbidden from leaving their front doors on their own. The economy collapsed & young men left the city in search of work & security. Desperate to help her family & support her five brothers & sisters at home Kamila began sewing cothes in her living room. Little did she know that the tailoring business she started to help her siblings would be the beginning of a dressmaking business that would create jobs & hope for one hundred neighbourhood women & would come to mean the difference between starvation & survival for hundreds of families like her own. ...

This title provides all the know-how you need to create your own wardrobe. Dressmaking gives you all the tools you need to make alter & customise your own clothes from choosing the right fabrics to key techniques such as hemming & hand stitching. You can create a complete wardrobe with 12 basic scalable patterns & step-by-step instructions for classic items such as pencil skirts dresses & jackets plus how to customise them to make them your own so you can make 30 garments in total. Dressmaking is packed with essential advice inspiration & the patterns you need to create beautiful clothes making this superb value & the dressmaking bible no seamstress can be without. ...

Making well-fitting clothes is a challenge for many dressmakers but especially so for those of us with a curvy shape or a plus-size. This book shows you how to take a standard commercial pattern in a larger size make some smart adjustments & end up with clothes that will give you a great flattering fit. Dressmaking to Flatter Your Shape

Includes:: detailed information on selecting fabrics & choosing styles to fit your shape. It explains how to get a perfect fit out of any sewing pattern with troubleshooting techniques to cover tricky points such as shoulders necklines sleeves hips & waists. Using this book you will also pick up tips on how to personalise a pattern to your own style by changing the collar or cuffs of a top or even by drafting your very own skirt pattern from scratch!

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Got a dressmaking problem you can't solve? Curious to know more about a specific technique? Want to know how to construct a garment? Dressmaking 200 Questions Answered will come to your rescue answering 200 questions on a vast range of dressmaking topics. Questions designed for beginners & experienced needlecrafters. Helpful advice from a leading expert on all aspects of dressmaking. Clear detailed illustrations help explain specific techniques & effects. Chapters cover sewing equipment measurements & fitting preparing & cutting out fabric machine stitching & much more. ...

Intelligent ambitious & a rising star in the French artillery Captain Alfred Dreyfus appeared to have everything: family money & the prospect of a post on the General Staff. But his rapid rise had also made him enemies
- many of them aristocratic officers in the armys High Command who resented him because he was middle-class meritocratic & a Jew. In October 1894 the torn fragments of an unsigned memo containing military secrets were retrieved by a cleaning lady from the waste paper basket of Colonel Maximilien von Schwartzkoppen of the German embassy in Paris. When French intelligence pieced the document back together to uncover proof of a spy in their midst Captain Dreyfus on slender evidence was charged with selling military secrets to the Germans found guilty of treason by unanimous verdict & sentenced to life imprisonment on the notorious Devils Isl&. The fight to free the wrongfully convicted Dreyfus
- over twelve long years through many trials
- is a story rife with heroes & villains courage & cowardice dissimulation & deceit. One of the most infamous miscarriages of justice in history the Dreyfus affair divided France stunned the world & unleashed violent hatreds & anti-Semitic passions which offered a foretaste of what was to play out in the long bloody twentieth century to come. Today amid charged debates over national & religious identity across the globe its lessons throw into sharp relief the conflicts of the present. In the hands of historian biographer & prize-winning novelist Piers Paul Read this masterful epic of the struggle between a minority seeking justice & a military establishment determined to save face comes dramatically alive for a new generation.


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Intelligent ambitious & a rising star in the French artillery Captain Alfred Dreyfus appeared to have everything: family money & the prospect of a post on the General Staff. But his rapid rise had also made him enemies
- many of them aristocratic officers in the armys High Command who resented him because he was middle-class meritocratic & a Jew. In October 1894 the torn fragments of an unsigned memo containing military secrets were retrieved by a cleaning lady from the waste paper basket of Colonel Maximilien von Schwartzkoppen of the German embassy in Paris. When French intelligence discovered they harboured a spy in their midst Captain Dreyfus on slender evidence was charged with selling military secrets to the Germans found guilty of treason by unanimous verdict & sentenced to life imprisonment on the notorious Devils Isl&. The fight to free the wrongfully convicted Dreyfus
- over twelve long years through many trials
- is a story rife with heroes & villains courage & cowardice dissimulation & deceit. One of the most infamous miscarriages of justice in history the Dreyfus affair divided France stunned the world & unleashed violent hatreds & anti-Semitic passions which offered a foretaste of what was to play out in the long bloody twentieth century to come. Today amid charged debates over national & religious identity across the globe its lessons throw into sharp relief the conflicts of the present. In the hands of historian biographer & prize-winning novelist Piers Paul Read this masterful epic of the struggle between a minority seeking justice & a military establishment determined to save face comes dramatically alive for a new generation.


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