In these stories whose lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface. The past as her characters discover is made up not only of what is remembered but also what isnt. The past is there just out of the picture but if memories havent been savoured recalled in the mind & boxed away its as if they have never been until a moment when the pieces of the jigsaw re-form suddenly sometimes pleasurably but more often painfully. Women look back at their young selves at first marriages made when they were naive & trusting at husbands & their difficult demanding little ways. There is in this new collection an underlying heartbreak a sense of regret in her characters for what might have been for a fork in the road not taken a memory suppressed in an act of prudent emotional housekeeping. But at the same time there is hope there are second changes her are people who reinvent themselves seize life by the throat who have moved on & can dare to conjure up the hidden memories daring to go beyond what is remembered. ...

This is a guide to creating your own personalised headwear. The author shows in step-by-step detail how to block classic shapes such as cloche or trilby & then transform them into numerous hat designs by adapting the brim & crown giving them different trimmings & so on. There are detailed instructions for making gorgeous hats & headpieces in felt fabric & straw. This is followed by a chapter on making specialised trimmings including dyeing shaping arranging & attaching feathers making fabric flowers & using beaded & stitched embellishments to finish of the hat. The book

Includes:: a number of projects & over 120 templates to help in designing the hats. The book is highly illustrated with both step-by-step sequences & inspirational photographs.

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The hardback of this first & authorised biography received very good reviews & immediately reprinted. It tells the story of one of the heroines of post-war British comedy on radio film & TV. Hattie Jacques is known as the billowing imposing Matron in the Carry On films as the star of such BBC radio classics as ITMA Educating Archie & Hancocks Half Hour & as the fictional sister of Eric Sykes in his long-running TV sitcom. But the formidable frumpy galleon-in-full-sail screen persona could not have been more at odds with the real-life woman as this biography reveals for the first time. She had a tempestuous wartime affair with an American officer & then a strange marriage to the actor John le Mesurier (Corporal Wilson in Dads Army) whose dissatisfactions she circumnavigated by moving her lover a flashy Cockney car dealer into the matrimonial home. But as well as being warm & sexy & generous she was also owing to her lifelong struggle with her weight needy & melancholic & rueful that her size persistently typecast her & excluded her from many roles. This biography has been written with full co-operation from Hatties son & show business friends like Barbara Windsor Clive Dunn Galton & Simpson & Ian Carmichael. ...

Hattie Weatheralls heart leapt when she first saw Abbots Mill & with her dog & an assortment of wild fowl for company she sets about renovating the mill. Sarah Farley feels a pang of envy for Hatties freedom. For over twenty years Sarah has tolerated her husbands infidelities
- & her love for him is about to be tested again... As Hattie settles into life at the mill she befriends two young boatmen. Toby is recovering from a broken marriage & when he has a another chance at happiness Hattie is glad welcome his new family into the fold. Josss problems are not so easily solved but when he turns to Hattie for help the motherly love that blossoms in her heart enables them both to heal old wounds...
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An hilarious & often wise collection of Scots saying straight from the mouths of the Grannies of Glasgow. With each snippet accompanied by a straightforward English translation this is your introduction to the unique wisdom of the Glesca Granny. ...

Three nights of terror at the house called Edbrook
- three nights in which David Ash there to investigate a haunting will be victim
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Derek Landy Philip Reeve Joseph Delaney Susan Cooper Eleanor Updale Jamila Gavin Mal Peet Matt Haig Berlie Doherty Robin Jarvis & Sam Llewellyn have come together to bring you eleven ghost stories: from a ghost walk around York; to a drowned boy whos determined to find someone to play with; to a lost child trapped in a mirror ready to pull you in; to devilish creatures waiting with bated breath for their next young victim; to an ancient woodland reawakened. Some will make you scream some will make you shiver but all will haunt you gently long after youve put the book down. ...

For the first time the UK's number one TV psychic shares some of his most personal stories & terrifying encounters with the spirit world & what it's really like to be 'possessed'. The star of LIVINGtv's ' Most Haunted' & ' Ghost Towns' goes on a new journey that will chill you to the bone. Derek takes us with him into the darkest places of the spirit world where he confronts people taken over by demonic entities the spirits of ancient Egyptians whose malevolent presence reaches beyond the tomb those evil ghosts with unfinished business who are terrorising the living & the dead who are determined to come back from the other side & take Derek with them if they can! If you thought you'd already seen Derek's most terrifying battles with the dark side -- think again. ...

The Queen & her Maids of Honour are spending the summer at a noblemans estate where a new manor house is being built. But the work has to stop when a mysterious spook appears. Could the ghost of a murdered Earl be haunting the site of his death? Grace begins to investigate & finds that there are many rumours about the ghost
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After a summer spent reclaiming her sanity & trying to forget the boy she fell in love with by the bridge where her best friend drowned
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