This autumn The Kate Greenaway Baby Book reappears with a fresh new cover. Designed by Ting-Chung Cheng winner of the Kate Greenaway Design Award 2009 the new look was the unanimous choice of a distinguished panel of judges including three artists who met in Kate Greenaways studio in Hampstead. This will be the third edition & fifteenth printing of The Kate Greenaway Baby Book a title that has built up a loyal & enthusiastic following around the world. The book combines traditional design with a modern approach to child development. It has sections for parents to fill in with details of the childs general progress as well as charts showing the family tree average weights & heights for boys & girls & when the upper & lower teeth come through. The pages have been thoughtfully laid out with plenty of space for photographs first drawings & other sentimental keepsakes. ...

It is the early 1920s & Kate Hannigan is happily married to Dr Rodney Prince who has willingly accepted her illegitimate daughter Annie as the eldest child of their household. Everything seems to be going well for the Prince family but soon spiteful rumours about Kates earlier life seem to haunt both her & Annie
- an insidious threat that revives memories of the poverty & narrowness of life in the Fifteen Streets district that they have so recently left behind. Annie will be faced with some of the problems that earlier beset her mother: religious prejudice & a choice between two different ways of life
- the comfortable middle-class existence offered by Brian Stannard & the uncertain prospects of Terence Mc Bane a brilliant mathematician from the underprivileged world Annie & her mother have just escaped. In the sequel to Kate Hannigan" Cooksons first published novel Kates daughter Annie must find the strength & maturity to overcome the troubles that threaten to engulf her."

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Fashion's dynamic duo. This is a photographer's tribute to his greatest muse. Mario Testino is recognized as the ultimate fashion photographer of his generation but his pictures of Kate Moss transcend fashion. The consequence of two decades of extraordinary friendship & phenomenal glamour this iconic collaboration is an intimate insight into the lives & minds of two of the world's definitive style leaders. Follow the journey of one of fashion's most creative collaborations from early days backstage at the shows to behind-the-scenes glimpses of the ground-breaking editorials they continue to produce for the world's most respected magazines. Many photographs have been chosen from Testino's private archive & are published here for the first time. This book is Mario's personal homage to his greatest muse: a young girl that captured his heart & eye with her beauty humor & spirit & whose image in his photographs has captured imaginations the world over. ...

Kate the Royal Wedding Fairy makes sure that all weddings are happy & magical! But when mean Jack Frost steals the True Love Crown the Fairyland royal wedding is sure to be a disaster. Can Kirsty & Rachel find the crown so the royal couple will live happily ever after...? ...

' Dad it's the happiest day of my life ' Kate said. 'I wish time would stand still & it could be today forever.' It's June 1897 & Kate is celebrating her eleventh birthday on the day of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Kate's joy is short-lived as tragedy strikes threatening her family with the loss of all they hold dear. Before long they are evicted from their home in Ancoats Manchester & with no wages coming in & a mother unable to cope Kate has to grow up fast. Her deepest desire is to keep her brothers & sisters together. A journey of hope & heartache takes Kate from the hardships of the workhouse to the dubious comforts of a position in service to the rich; from the joys of marriage to a good man to the sorrows & losses suffered during the Great War. ...

Charming handsome Edward Somers has been recovering from his wartime injuries in a small hotel in the South of France where he is an extremely popular guest. One day he happens upon a nearby villa within which lives a mysterious & beautiful countess Katerina who does not appear to be allowed any visitors. Edward manages to break through to her & soon the pair develop a wonderful friendship. As each day passes the pair grow closer & closer but Edward soon finds there is more to Katerina than meets the eye. Why is she confined to the villa guarded by a man with a rifle? Who is observing her with a telescope? Why is she so reluctant to be photographed? Soon a sinister chain of events begins to unfold & several attempts on Katerina's life are made. Must Katerina always be on the run? Constantly forced into hiding will she ever find the love she craves so dearly? ...

The young Spanish widow Katharine of Aragon has become the pawn between two powerful monarchies. After less than a year as the wife of the frail Prince Arthur the question of whether the marriage was ever consummated will decide both her fate & Englands. But whilst England & Spain dispute her dowry in the wings awaits her unexpected escape from poverty: Henry Arthurs younger more handsome brother
- the future King of Engl&. He alone has the power to restore her position but at what sacrifice?
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Katherine comes to the court of Edward III at the age of fifteen. The na?ve convent-educated orphan of a penniless knight is dazzled by the jousts & the entertainments of court. Nevertheless Katherine is beautiful & she turns the head of the King's favourite son John of Gaunt. But he is married & she is soon to be betrothed. A few years later their paths cross again & this time their passion for each other cannot be denied or suppressed. Katherine becomes the prince's mistress & discovers an extraordinary world of power pleasure & passion. ...

A riveting new biography of a much neglected Queen
- the doomed child-bride of Henry VIII. Joanna Denny author of Anne Boleyn reveals
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Katherine Swynford was first the mistress & later the wife of John of Gaunt the Duke of Lancaster. Her charismatic lover was one of the most powerful princes of the fourteenth century & Katherine was renowned for her beauty & regarded as enigmatic intriguing & even dangerous by some of her contemporaries. In her impressive new book Alison Weir has triumphantly rescued Katherine from the footnotes of history highlighting her key dynastic position within the English monarchy. She was the mother of the Beaufort then the ancestress of the Yorkist kings the Tudors the Stuarts & every other sovereign since
- a prodigious legacy that has shaped the history of Britain.
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