Author Moniek Vanden Berghe & photographer Kurt Dekeyzer are the creators of the highly successful books Flowers in Love" & " Flowers in Love II" in which they focus on different aspects of bridal floral art. This book is composed of truly inspiring mourning arrangements. Within this delicate theme they have assembled for both professional & amateur florists brand new touching floral arrangements in full harmony with the latest coffin & cremation urn designs. In addition they show a series of both very contemporary & more traditional wreaths altar decorations & tomb arrangements. This book really is the ultimate proof that delicate & sensitive floral designs can ease the pain & create hope for those who have lost loved ones." ...

Through thick mist & a cold east wind Lavinia returns to Scotl&. Up at the big house Mrs Farquhar is dying. Seeing Lachlan again. Lavinia remembers her childhood holidays there: swimming in the loch the picnics bottle-feeding the lambs down at the farm & the evenings when they danced reels. Most of all she remembers Mrs Farquhars grandson Rory. In the house as the old lady lies serene & beautiful in the bed she has slept in since coming home to Lachlan as a bride Lavinia meets Rory once again. Flowers in the Rain is one of sixteen stories each giving another magical glimpse into Rosamunde Pilchers world. The world in which most prefer to live all the time. ...

Flowers in the Worlds Most Beautiful Gardens puts the spotlight on the star of the garden; the flower. Tracing the history of flower gardens from the Middle Ages to today the book discusses the types of flowers commonly planted the landscape designs the advances in technology & how these practices have advanced throughout the centuries. Each chapter also focuses on a significant type of bloom; the rose i ris & tulip feature among others. Illustrated with more than 150 exquisite photographs by Alain Le Toquin this book features the worlds most extraordinary flower gardens featuring gardens in Europe Africa Asia & North America. ...

This practical & inspirational guide in a handy sketchbook format is aimed at the practised beginner & shows how to paint successful flowers in watercolours in just 30 minutes
- ideal for the busy amateur artist. Many people think they dont have enough time to paint but in this attractive guide Trevor Waugh encourages quick & simple learning. By working with just a few materials & focusing on just the key techniques it is possible to achieve successful delicate paintings of flowers in no more than half an hour. & for those artists who already have a little painting experience learning to work more quickly enables them to free up their style & paint more spontaneously. All the key topics are covered from watercolour techniques colour & tone to learning about flower shapes foliage patterns & textures. There are also practical projects & step-by-step demonstrations as well as helpful tips & checklists.
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The new What to Paint series is perfect for readers who already have some painting skills & experience but are looking for inspiring painting subjects. Each book has 24 beautiful full-page size paintings a colour palette for each one & informative captions pulling out details tips & techniques used in various parts of the painting. At the back of the book there is a free outline for each painting for readers to transfer or scan on to watercolour paper. There are also instructions on transferring the images & on selecting parts of the outlines to create new compositions. There is information on transferring the images mixing colours painting backgrounds & creating new compositions by using only part of an outline. Paintings include tulips daffodils & anemones snake's head fritillary a posy of spring flowers fuchsias cherry blossom in a jar oriental poppies & many roses for which the author makes no apology because she loves them. ...

When her last two plays are dismal failures & her relationship with her temperamental mentor falls apart writer Bree O' Brien abandons Chicago & the regional theater where she hoped to make a name for herself to return home. Opening Flowers on Main promises to bring her a new challenge & a new kind of fulfillment. But not all is peaceful & serene in Chesapeake Shores with her estranged mother on the scene & her ex-lover on the warpath. Jake Collins has plenty of reasons to want Bree out of his life but none of those are a match for the one reason he wants her to stay: he's still in love with her. Jake might be able to get past that old hurt if he knew Bree was home to stay but is she? The only way to know for sure is to take a dangerous leap of faith. ...

When Adam Rhoades tires of the political climate in Ireland & decides to leave for America his daughter Rebekahs future happiness is threatened. For Rebekah against her fathers wishes has fallen in love with handsome young Republican Daniel ONeill. Then Daniel too is forced to flee from his homeland & joins Rebekah on an ocean liner headed for New York. In the enclosed shipboard society their love is impossible to hide. But a cruel twist of fate leaves Rebekah orphaned & living in Liverpool without the man she loves. Isolated & vulnerable she reluctantly marries her new guardian Joshua Green. It is a decision Rebekah will bitterly regret
- until the day she rediscovers the happiness she thought had been lost to her forever.
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In 1956 at age 21 Floyd Patterson became the youngest boxer to win the title of world heavyweight champion & then later the first ever to lose & regain it. Here acclaimed author W.K. Stratton chronicles the life of The Gentle Gladiator
- an athlete overshadowed by Alis theatrics & Listons fearsome reputation & a civil-rights activist overlooked in the whos who of race politics. From the Gramercy Gym & wild-card manager Cus DAmato to a final rematch against Ali in 1972 Pattersons career spanned boxings Golden Age & included an Olympic gold medal. This powerful tribute to an invisible champion who fought his way to the top of a knockdown world carrying many of the hopes & fears of the battle for civil rights draws upon interviews with the fighters family friends & boxing contemporaries to provide the definitive account of his remarkable life & career.
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Theres a nasty flu going round. An epidemic they call it. The posters say to cover your mouth when you sneeze & throw away the tissue. But such simple measures wont stop this flu. Because when you catch the flu armed police come & lock you in your house to die alone. When you catch this flu it kills you in days. & when you catch this flu two hours after its killed you your eyelids snap open again... Flu" is a pacey terrifying frighteningly real zombie horror story." ...

From the double Man Booker prize-winning author of ' Wolf Hall' this is a dark fable of lost faith & awakening love amidst the moors. Fetherhoughton is a drab dreary town somewhere in a magical half-real 1950s north England a preserve of ignorance & superstition protected against the advance of reason by its impenetrable moor-fogs. Father Angwin the town's cynical priest has lost his faith & wants nothing more than to be left alone. Sister Philomena strains against the monotony of convent life & the pettiness of her fellow nuns. The rest of the town goes about their lives in a haze a never-ending procession of grim grey days stretching ahead of them. Yet all of that is about to change. A strange visitor appears one stormy night bringing with him the hint the taste of something entirely new something unknown. But who is Fludd? An angel come to shake the Fetherhoughtonians from their stupor to reawaken Father Angwin's faith to show Philomena the nature of love? Or is he the devil himself a shadowy wanderer of the darkest places in the human heart? Full of dry wit compassionate characterisations & cutting insight Fludd is a brilliant gem of a book & one of Hilary Mantel's most original works. ...