Forced from her fathers humble Norfolk vicarage Ellen Gowan finds herself in an unforgiving London. At fifteen she falls for Raoul de Valentin the dangerous descendant of French aristocrats. Raoul marries Ellen for her brilliance as a designer but abandons his wife when she becomes pregnant. Determined that she & her daughter will survive Ellen begins her long climb to success. Toiling first in an east-end factory she finally opens her own salon in Berkeley Square. One single dress a ball gown created for the enigmatic Countess of Hawksmoor transforms Ellens fortunes & as the years pass her business thrives. She tells the world
- & her daughter
- shes a widow. But then Raoul de Valentin returns & threatens to destroy all that Ellen has achieved.

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When the Taliban took control of Kabul Kamila Sidiqi & all the women of Kabul saw their lives transformed. Overnight they were banned from schools & offices & even forbidden from leaving their front doors on their own. The economy collapsed & young men left the city in search of work & security. Desperate to help her family & support her five brothers & sisters at home Kamila began sewing cothes in her living room. Little did she know that the tailoring business she started to help her siblings would be the beginning of a dressmaking business that would create jobs & hope for one hundred neighbourhood women & would come to mean the difference between starvation & survival for hundreds of families like her own. ...

All the guidance you need to create beautiful clothes whether you are following a pattern adding embellishments or starting from scratch. The step by step instructions for a wide range of dressmaking techniques from basic patterns through to couture designs makes it suitable for beginners as well as sewers with more experience. Easy-to-follow highly illustrated instructions explain the essential dressmaking techniques
- allowing you to work confidently from a pattern to create beautiful clothes that fit perfectly. It features an at-a-glance guide to basic garment shapes & styles cross referenced with the relevant techniques throughout the book.

Includes:: advice on body shape choosing the right fabric for the right garment as well as decorative sewing techniques such as embroidery & applique. It features step techniques for making basic garment details including waistbands hems sleeves cuffs necklines collars fastenings pockets & linings. Suitable for beginners or those who are already designing or making their own clothes this is the perfect book for honing dressmaking skills & inspiring fashionable new designs.


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This title provides all the know-how you need to create your own wardrobe. Dressmaking gives you all the tools you need to make alter & customise your own clothes from choosing the right fabrics to key techniques such as hemming & hand stitching. You can create a complete wardrobe with 12 basic scalable patterns & step-by-step instructions for classic items such as pencil skirts dresses & jackets plus how to customise them to make them your own so you can make 30 garments in total. Dressmaking is packed with essential advice inspiration & the patterns you need to create beautiful clothes making this superb value & the dressmaking bible no seamstress can be without. ...

Making well-fitting clothes is a challenge for many dressmakers but especially so for those of us with a curvy shape or a plus-size. This book shows you how to take a standard commercial pattern in a larger size make some smart adjustments & end up with clothes that will give you a great flattering fit. Dressmaking to Flatter Your Shape

Includes:: detailed information on selecting fabrics & choosing styles to fit your shape. It explains how to get a perfect fit out of any sewing pattern with troubleshooting techniques to cover tricky points such as shoulders necklines sleeves hips & waists. Using this book you will also pick up tips on how to personalise a pattern to your own style by changing the collar or cuffs of a top or even by drafting your very own skirt pattern from scratch!

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Intelligent ambitious & a rising star in the French artillery Captain Alfred Dreyfus appeared to have everything: family money & the prospect of a post on the General Staff. But his rapid rise had also made him enemies
- many of them aristocratic officers in the armys High Command who resented him because he was middle-class meritocratic & a Jew. In October 1894 the torn fragments of an unsigned memo containing military secrets were retrieved by a cleaning lady from the waste paper basket of Colonel Maximilien von Schwartzkoppen of the German embassy in Paris. When French intelligence pieced the document back together to uncover proof of a spy in their midst Captain Dreyfus on slender evidence was charged with selling military secrets to the Germans found guilty of treason by unanimous verdict & sentenced to life imprisonment on the notorious Devils Isl&. The fight to free the wrongfully convicted Dreyfus
- over twelve long years through many trials
- is a story rife with heroes & villains courage & cowardice dissimulation & deceit. One of the most infamous miscarriages of justice in history the Dreyfus affair divided France stunned the world & unleashed violent hatreds & anti-Semitic passions which offered a foretaste of what was to play out in the long bloody twentieth century to come. Today amid charged debates over national & religious identity across the globe its lessons throw into sharp relief the conflicts of the present. In the hands of historian biographer & prize-winning novelist Piers Paul Read this masterful epic of the struggle between a minority seeking justice & a military establishment determined to save face comes dramatically alive for a new generation.


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Intelligent ambitious & a rising star in the French artillery Captain Alfred Dreyfus appeared to have everything: family money & the prospect of a post on the General Staff. But his rapid rise had also made him enemies
- many of them aristocratic officers in the armys High Command who resented him because he was middle-class meritocratic & a Jew. In October 1894 the torn fragments of an unsigned memo containing military secrets were retrieved by a cleaning lady from the waste paper basket of Colonel Maximilien von Schwartzkoppen of the German embassy in Paris. When French intelligence discovered they harboured a spy in their midst Captain Dreyfus on slender evidence was charged with selling military secrets to the Germans found guilty of treason by unanimous verdict & sentenced to life imprisonment on the notorious Devils Isl&. The fight to free the wrongfully convicted Dreyfus
- over twelve long years through many trials
- is a story rife with heroes & villains courage & cowardice dissimulation & deceit. One of the most infamous miscarriages of justice in history the Dreyfus affair divided France stunned the world & unleashed violent hatreds & anti-Semitic passions which offered a foretaste of what was to play out in the long bloody twentieth century to come. Today amid charged debates over national & religious identity across the globe its lessons throw into sharp relief the conflicts of the present. In the hands of historian biographer & prize-winning novelist Piers Paul Read this masterful epic of the struggle between a minority seeking justice & a military establishment determined to save face comes dramatically alive for a new generation.


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Ten years in the making Dribble! is an A-Z of credulity-twanging facts & stories about what Pele once memorably dubbed my bloody job. It

Includes:: definitive explanations of everyday phrases such as the magic of the cup & low centre of gravity; a complete guide to becoming a terrace character & an in-depth account of how Roy Keanes pyjamas got him a smack on the nose.. . It also addresses hitherto ignored aspects of the beautiful game including its longstanding relationship with Country & Western. Johnny Cash dubbed himself The Man in Black in homage to his idol referee Arthur Ellis & wrote what is arguably the greatest song ever written about the life of an assistant referee
- I Walk the Line.


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Artist & filmmaker Philippe Parreno who created the documentary Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait takes us in Drift on a unique voyage through London
- a journey without the typical purposes of a journey an artistic psychogeographical path
- part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground as Tfl celebrates 150 years of the Tube with Penguin. It is also available in a boxset. Authors include the masterly John Lanchester the children of Kids Company comic John OFarrell & social geographer Danny Dorling. Ranging from the polemical to the fantastical the personal to the societal they offer something for every taste. All experience the city as a cultural phenomenon & notice its nature & its people. Read individually theyre delightful small reads pulled together they offer a particular portrait of a global city". (Evening Standard). " Exquisitely diverse". (The Times). " Eclectic & broad-minded.. .beautifully designed". (Tom Cox Observer). "A fascinating collection with a wide range of styles & themes. The design qualities are excellent as you might expect from Penguin with a consistent look & feel while allowing distinctive covers for each book. This is a very pleasing set of books". (A Common Reader blog). " The contrasts & transitions between books are as stirring as the books themselves...A multidimensional literary jigsaw". (Londonist). "A series of short sharp city-based vignettes
- some personal some political & some pictorial.. .each inimitable author finds that our city is complicated but ultimately connected full of wit & just the right amount of grit". (Fabric Magazine). "A collection of beautiful books". (Grazia). Praise for Philippe Parrenos work: " Exceptional.. .a small masterpiece". (Laura Cumming Guardian). " One of Frances hottest commodities. An artist with an almost chameleon-like approach to his medium he can switch from film-maker to sculptor to storyteller to producer with the kind of dexterity that defies categorisation". (Guardian). Philippe Parreno is an Algerian artist & filmmaker who has had shows in major art galleries around the world & is considered the finest writer among artists by curators such as Hans Ulrich Obrist. Based in Paris his documentary film Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait was released in 2006. He has exhibited in Mo MA Tate Modern & the Guggenheim among others."


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Hannah & Joey have been best friends for ever. Joeys parents love rescuing things & making them beautiful
- their house is full
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