At last a place to record not just your genealogy but also those little details of daily life you never want to lose A Grandparent's Journal asks questions like: Where did your father's family come form?" What was the name of the street you grew up on? Who was your first teacher? Answering these questions & others compiles a fascinating family archive & at the end of each section special pages provide a home for treasured family photographs. The exquisite color illustrations by celebrated artist Mandy Pritty make this journal not only a treasure trove of information but also a beautiful keepsake for your grandchildren & generations to come." ...

This bright & colorful birthday card for your Grandson has in large colorful green red & blue text on the front &8216; Grandson have an awesome birthday! printed on a white background. Greeting inside reads &8216; Happy Birthday&8217;. This card comes complete with a blue envelope ready for posting. Approximate dimensions: 18.5 x 13.5cm ...

Bryan Talbots most recent book Alice in Sunderland" was hailed by the " Guardian" as one of the ten best graphic novels ever & acclaimed by critics all over the world. Before that at the start of his career he created the first ever steampunk graphic novel " The Adventures of Luther Arkwright". In " Grandville" Talbot brings us another steampunk masterpiece. Inspired by the work of the nineteenth-century French illustrator Gerard who worked under the pseudonym Grandville & frequently drew anthropomorphic animal characters it tells the story of detective Inspector Le Brock of Scotland Yard as he stalks a gang of murderers through the heart of Belle Epoque Paris. In this alternative reality France is the major world power & its capital is thronged with steam-driven hansom cabs automatons & flying machines. The characters are mostly animals though there is an underclass of humans often referred to as dough faces who resemble the clear-line characters of Herges " Tintin" books. Visually stunning " Grandville" is a fantastical & audacious rollercoaster ride that will add to Talbots reputation as one of the best graphic novelists in the world." ...

The Badger is back! At Toad Hall lair of multibillionaire. Baron Aristotle Krapaud a cabal of industrialists & fat cats plot the violent overthrow of the French state by the intervention of horribly beweaponed automaton soldiers. Meanwhile the brutal murder of a famous Parisian artist mysteriously stabbed to death in his locked & guarded studio is subject to the investigations of the tenacious Detective Inspector Le Brock of Scotland Yard placing him & his faithful adjunct Detective Sergeant Roderick Ratzi in pursuit of the mysterious masked assassin stalking the cut-throat commercial world of the Grandville art scene. Bete Noire signals the welcome return to anthropomorphic steampunk detective fiction of master storyteller & graphic novel pioneer Bryan Talbot" with the third st&-alone volume of the Eisner & Hugo Award nominated " Grandville" series. As the body count mounts & events spiral exponentially out of control aided by his brilliant deductive abilities & innate ferocity Le Brock battles against outrageous odds in this funny high octane thriller an adventure shot through with both high art & comic book references a glorious illegitimate offspring of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Ian Fleming
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The Badger is back! Set three weeks after the finale of Grandville Grandville Mon Amour pits Detective Inspector Archie Le Brock of Scotland Yard against an old adversary & ruthless urban guerrilla Edward Mad Dog Mastock
- a psychotic serial killer whose shocking escape from his execution by guillotine at the Tower of London begins this fast-paced Hitchcockian steampunk thriller. Le Brock still racked by remorse for his failure to prevent the death of the Divine Sarah & working outside the law after resigning his post following a blazing row with his superior officer embarks on a quest to redeem himself by tracking down Mastock & bringing to an end his horrific murder spree. Aided by his adjunct & old friend Detective Roderick Ratzi he follows the trail of carnage to Paris. Otherwise known as Grandville its the largest city in a world dominated by France a city used to violence following the years of terrorist bombings by the extreme fanatic wing of the British resistance during the occupation the notorious Angry Brigade of which Mastock was the sadistic leading light. With his customary tenacity Le Brock stalks his prey through a world populated by anthropomorphic animals an underclass of humans & automaton robots where advanced steam technology powers everything from hansom cabs to iron flying machines. Its a trail that leads to the demimonde of Parisian prostitution & an atrocity perpetrated twenty-three years ago. With a range of new & fascinating characters & a mix of Holmesian deduction knowing humour & edge of the seat action Grandville Mon Amour continues the vein of high-octane adventure begun in the first volume. Can even Le Brock escape the past or do heroes have feet of clay? Follow the badger!
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Get away from here before youre completely bewitched & enslaved... Dorothy Carrington was told while sitting in a fishermans cafe at the magically quiet midday hour. But enslaved she was. Granite Island" much more than a travel book grew out of years spent in Corsica & is an incomparably vivid & delightful portrait. For the first time Corsica is brought to light as a vital element in Europe: a highly individualistic island culture whose people have nurtured their love of freedom & political justice as well as their pride hospitality & poetry." ...

When it comes to knitting who knows better than our nan? If you get tangled in a ball of wool shes always the first person you call to help you sort your cross stitch from your cable. While recruiting for her fledgling online knitwear company Katie Mowat swiftly realised that it was mainly older women namely grannies who were volunteering their services & so Grannies Inc. was born. Since 2009 they have gone from strength to strength & from one product (beanies) they now design & produce a whole range of knitwear. Her crack squad of 15 grannies will be contributing their purls of wisdom & patterns to help the new knitting generation in this attractive book. With knitting patterns for snoods legwarmers slouch socks laptop cases & beanies youll be cool & cosy in no time. As the grannies say May your bobbin always be full. ...

Grannyhood is often approached with dread by the soon-to-be granny but The Grannies Book" gives reason to embrace & celebrate this wonderful role. Devoted to grandmothers in every shape & form " The Grannies Book"
Includes:: tips & suggestions for maintaining ones best gran status; famous grannies from history literature & folklore; checklists of things expected of a granny; ideas for things to do with grandchildren; & secrets that all grandmothers should know. Decorated with lovely black-&-white illustrations throughout this is a beautiful special gift for every wonderful & much-loved granny."
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This is a wickedly funny tale about the granny from Hell by the creator of Alex Rider". Twelve-year-old Joe Warden isnt happy. He has rich uncaring parents & is virtually a prisoner in the huge family mansion Thattlebee Hall. Worst of all though is his granny. Not only is she physically repulsive shes horribly mean. She has the look in her eye of a predatory crocodile & Joe starts to suspect that she has unpleasant designs on him. But what are they & how can he foil them?" ...

The final book in the Agnes Browne trilogy At forty-seven years of age Agnes now thirteen years happily widowed enters the 1980s with a fruit stall in Moore Street a French lover & six children five of them in their twenties. Becoming a grandmother is a terrible shock to her system especially as Agnes suffers every one of her daughter-in-law's labour pains! & as the family expands so do the problems -one son's inevitable brush with the law the heartbreak of emigration. But Agnes Browne is nothing if not a fighter & she squares her shoulders offers up a quick one to her departed pal Marion & sets about getting things back on an even keel
- or as even as things ever get in the Brown household! The same quick-fire dialogue hilarious humour & great characterisation as in Brendan's bestselling THE MAMMY filmed as AGNES BROWNE by Angelica Huston & the BAFTA-nominated TV series Mrs Browne's Boys.
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