Chasing & repousse are methods of embellishing metal objects that have been in use for millennia. With the use of punches & hammers a wide range of items from delicate jewellery such as earrings to pieces of monumental sculpture can be adorned using these techniques. The book provides clean & practical instruction that will be of use to both beginners & the more practised craftsperson. Highly illustrated the book gives a clear idea of how these methods can be used for a wide range of items. ...

If you fall too fast you just might crash... Daisy has been dumped unceremoniously jilted. Not by any ordinary guy no... Daisy has a secret in her past that she won't even tell her best friend Holly. She's given up on men
- & on her own family. But life still has to be lived & where better to recover than as far away from home as possible. Grabbing a chance to see the world Daisy packs her bags & joins the team catering to the world's highest-paid supercharged racing drivers on the Formula 1 Grand Prix circuit. From Brazil to Italy from Melbourne to Monte Carlo life passes in a dizzying whirlwind. But nothing
- & no one
- can stop Daisy from falling again...this time for a man who is prepared to risk his life & his heart for the sake of speed danger & ultimate success.


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It is fire season & the hills of Los Angeles are burning. As the Police & Fire Departments evacuate the inhabitants they find something no one expected: the days-old corpse of a middle-aged recluse who apparently committed suicide. Then comes an even more horrible discovery. Clutched in his lap is a photo album containing photographs of seven young women who have been murdered. Each photograph was taken only moments after the women were killed & could only have been taken by the killer. One murder per year for seven years their bodies found in different parts of the city. LAPD homicide detectives had never connected the seven murders. But now with the discovery of the death album there is a link. Only one suspect had been charged in any of those cases but with evidence supplied by Elvis Cole in the end he walked free. That suspect was the suicide now discovered in the fire...and now the police are out for Cole... ...

Growing up in a small town Sandy Paull dreams of something better. When she lands a job with one of Londons leading theatrical agencies her dreams appear to be coming true particularly when she meets Michael Mc Cann her handsome & dynamic boss. Ellen Shelby as a highly respected & successful agent has Hollywood at her feet. But she is as insecure with relationships as she is confident with deals. & when she meets her British rival Michael Mc Cann there is a powerful attraction between them that they are powerless to deny. But Michelle the woman Michael once loved & lost still haunts his thoughts. & when a dramatic event pulls him back into the past a nightmare of untenable proportions begins to close in on those he loves... ...

Welcome to Chestnut Hill the boarding school where every girl's favourite subject is riding. Chestnut Hill is buzzing! It's rumoured a show-jumping star's about to join the riding team while a hot new teacher is turning heads in class. But Honey can't help thinking that all the gossip is getting out of h&... More titles available: THE NEW CLASS (9781407130750) MAKING STRIDES (978147130767) HEART OF GOLD (9781407130774) PLAYING FOR KEEPS (9781407130781) TEAM SPIRIT (9781407130798) ALL OR NOTHING (9781407130804) A TIME TO REMEMBER (9781407130828). ...

From the million copy best selling author of The Devil Wears Prada. How far would you go to change your life in a year? Emmy finds herself single for the first time in years. She vows to find a man on every continent for some pure no-strings-attached fun. Adriana is stunning & can have any man she desires. Yet she wants an eligible bachelor wholl slip a five-carat Harry Winston diamond on her finger. Leigh has a doting boyfriend that most girls would kill for. But when literary bad boy Jesse Chapman asks to work with her she just cant refuse. Knocking back raspberry mojitos one night the three friends make a pact
- to change one thing in their lives by the end of the year. Game On.
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Joe's mum is dead. Killed in a hit-&-run car crash along with someone he's never heard of. Angry & alone Joe takes his dog for a late night walk. He finds himself at the gates of an empty mansion: a house of glass belonging to an old movie star. & it's here that Joe unlocks the dangerous mystery of what happened that night... ...

Chasing the Dead" is the debut thriller from Tim Weaver the first in the chilling " David Raker" series. One year ago Alex Townes body was found. One month ago his mother saw him on the street. One week ago David Raker agreed to look for him. Now he wishes he hadnt. Mary Townes son Alex went missing six years ago. Five years later he finally turned up
- as a corpse in a car wreck. Missing persons investigator David Raker doesnt want the work: its clearly a sad but hopeless case of mistaken identity brought to him by a woman unable to let go of her son. But haunted by a loss of his own Raker reluctantly agrees. Big mistake. For as he digs deeper he discovers that Alexs life was not the innocent one his mother believed. Buried in his past are secrets that were never meant to be found
- & dark dangerous men willing to kill to protect them. Soon Raker will discover that there are things far worse than death... Tim Weaver is a new talent fans of Mo Hayder & Michael Marshall Smith will love his work. " Chasing the Dead" is the first in the " David Raker" series following the missing persons investigator. Later works in the series include " The Dead Tracks" & " Vanished. Praise for Tim Weaver: " Impressive debut... Fans of Mo Hayder will be in seventh hell". (" Guardian"). " Perfect plotting great characterisation & the kind of payoff that a thriller of this calibre deserves". (" Bookgeeks"). "A taut thriller". (Barry Forshaw). Tim Weaver was born in 1977. At eighteen he left school & started working in magazine journalism & has since gone on to develop a successful career writing about films TV sport games & technology. He is married with a young daughter & lives near Bath. " Vanished" is Tims third " David Raker" novel which follow his highly acclaimed debut " Chasing the Dead" & its sequel " The Dead Tracks". Tortured by his wifes early death David Raker is one of the most charismatic sensitive & unique missing persons investigators in current crime fiction."

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Henry Pierce has a whole new life
- new apartment new telephone new number. When he checks his machine he discovers messages for
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On 20th May the Indian summer monsoon will begin to envelop the country in two great wet arms one coming from the east the other from the west. They are united over central India around 10th July a date that can be calculated within seven or eight days. Alexander Frater aims to follow the monsoon staying sometimes behind it sometimes in front of it & everywhere watching the impact of this extraordinary phenomenon. During the anxious period of waiting the weather forecaster is king consulted by pie-crested cockatoos & a joyful period ensues: there is a period of promiscuity & scandals proliferate. Fraters journey takes him to Bangkok & the cowboy town on the Thai-Malaysian border to Rangoon & Akyab in Burma (where the front funnels up between the mountains & the sea). His fascinating narrative reveals the exotic often startling discoveries of an ambitious & irresistibly romantic adventurer. ...