The latest book from the bestselling author Kim Thittichai focuses on the range of ideas & techniques for layering your textiles. These layers can produce simple to extreme surfaces for stitch. Layering is a major feature of todays textile art whether to create relief colour texture or dimension. The author takes you through a number of key materials
- papers synthetic & natural fabric translucent materials wires paints & sprays
- that can be incorporated into layered textiles. Various techniques are combined with these materials from using heat guns soldering irons & lazer cutting to machine & hand stitch to give the reader endless ideas for their own creative work. As always the author has provided exercises for the creative process & the techniques but combined them with the work of the best textile artists around the world today. It provides the ultimate guide to the subject of layered textiles for readers looking to experiment with their own textile art.

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It's Kirsty's birthday & the girls are excited about going to the Wetherbury village fete. They head straight for the candyfloss stall
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Visitors flock to see the beast house with its blood-soaked corridors. But the worst part of the house is actually THE CELLAR... Bestselling author Gorman Hardy is looking for ideas for his next novel. Tyler & her friend Nora are looking for a wild time. But in fact they find pain bestiality & death in...THE BEAST HOUSE. Horrific events have made the Beast House infamous. For the full story take THE MIDNIGHT TOUR. Saturday nights only. Limited to thirteen tourists. It begins on the stroke of midnight. Youll be lucky to get out alive... ...

The third volume that contains the early myths & legends which led to the writing of Tolkiens epic tale of war The Silmarillion. This the third volume of The History of Middle-earth gives us a priviledged insight into the creation of the mythology of Middle-earth through the alliterative verse tales of two of the most crucial stories in Tolkiens world -- those of Turien & Luthien. The first of the poems is the unpublished Lay of The Children of Hurin narrating on a grand scale the tragedy of Turin Turambar. The second is the moving Lay of Leithian the chief source of the tale of Beren & Luthien in The Silmarillion telling of the Quest of the Silmaril & the encounter with Morgoth in his subterranean fortress. Accompanying the poems are commentaries on the evolution of the history of the Elder Days. Also included is the notable criticism of The Lay of The Leithian by CS Lewis who read the poem in 1929. ...

How many minutes can you now survive after cardiac arrest? What do new medical techniques teach us about consciousness? How will these change our views of who we are? In 2012 two football stars collapsed while playing. Both were technically dead yet while Fabrice Muamba received hypothermia treatment & recovered his counterpart in another country did not. In The Lazarus Effect" Dr Sam Parnia a critical care physician & one of the world's leading experts on the scientific study of death uses fascinating stories as well as the very latest research to investigate what happens during cardiac arrest. He also explains how medical advances are revolutionising our chances of survival. Parnia shows how these developments have introduced a controversial 'grey zone' between heart failure & irreversible death where death is not a single point but a process. What does that mean for our definition of death? & how can we account for the way the human mind continues to exist after death has begun? These questions come from the heart of a debate that has profound ethical scientific & philosophical implications for us all not least the fact that soon we will have more power over life & death than ever before." ...

Someone
- a woman or somebody pretending to be a woman
- is writing to convicted rapists in prison befriending them & then brutally

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Someone is writing to convicted rapists in prison befriending them & then brutally killing them when they are released. DI Tom Thorne must discover the link between these killings & a murder/suicide that took place twenty-five years before; a tragedy to which the only witnesses were two small children now adults & nowhere to be found... This recording is unabridged. Typically abridged audiobooks are not more than 60% of the authors work & as low as 30% with characters & plotlines removed. ...

A MONSTER MURDERED It's only ten days since Douglas Remfry's release from prison having served seven years for rape & now he's dead: naked on a bare mattress in a grubby north London hotel room his head hooded & his hands tied with a brown leather belt. A DEADLY JUSTICE Someone knew he was coming out. Someone wanted to mete out some punishment of his own. A CASE NO ONE WANTS SOLVED & when a second sex offender is found dead DI Tom Thorne knows he has a vicious calculating viliglante on his hands... ...

Christopher Hilton documents the race that caused the worst crash in motor racing history in this new & full study of the fateful day. Through a host of interviews
- with drivers team members journalists & spectators
- & original research at Le Mans Hilton examines the aftermath of the crash that has affected what we see of motorsport on our television screens today. The worst crash in motor racing history
- killing more than 80 people
- was produced by a ferocious & haunting combination of circumstances: nationalism raw speed the nature of a 24-hour race & chance. The crash drew in Mike Hawthorn the blond playboy from Farnham in a Jaguar & Juan-Manuel Fangio one of the greatest drivers of all in a Mercedes. A crowd of 250 000 watched hypnotised as Hawthorn set out to break Fangio the two cars going faster & faster...and faster. Another English playboy Lance Macklin was caught up in the crash in his Austin-Healey along with a 50-year-old Frenchman driving under the assumed name of Pierre Levegh. He was in the wrong place at the wrong time. It cost him his life even as his car was torn to pieces that scythed into the dense crowd. After 6.2 7pm on 11 June 1955 nothing would ever be the same again & the consequences of the momentous crash are still being felt. In this new & full study of the fateful day Christopher Hilton sets the race itself in the context of the 1950s. Through a host of interviews
- with drivers team members journalists & spectators
- & original research at Le Mans & in the Mercedes archive in Stuttgart he recreates every aspect of the race & the crash. Much of the material has never been seen before. He examines the aftermath
- the bitter blame game the conflicting testimonies the direct threat to motorsport in Europe
- & chronicles the beginning of the culture of safety that has affected what we see of motorsport on our television screens today.







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Officially licensed with the ACO the organisers of the annual Le Mans 24 Hours race this sumptuous book is the fourth title in a decade-by-decade series that will eventually build up into an eight-volume set covering every race since 1923. Each year is exhaustively covered in vivid photographs a detailed & insightful commentary full results data & a glorious rendering of the official race poster. Compiled by an acknowledged authority of this legendary race this series of books will be treasured by all enthusiasts of sports car racing. ...