With his characteristic warmth inventiveness & brilliant wit Alexander Mc Call Smith gives us more of the gloriously entertaining comings & goings at 44 Scotland Street the Edinburgh townhouse. Six-year-old prodigy Bertie perseveres in his heroic struggle for truth & balanced good sense against his insufferable mother & her crony the psychotherapist Dr Fairbairn going as far as to make a short-lived bid for freedom on a trip to Paris with the Edinburgh youth orchestra. Domenica sets off on an anthropological odyssey with pirates in the Malacca Straits while Pat attracts several handsome admirers including a toothsome suitor named Wolf. & Big Lou eternal source of coffee & good advice to her friends has love heartbreak & erstwhile boyfriend Eddies misdemeanours on her own mind. ...

Whether writing of longing or seduction of passion adultery or simple everyday acts of love Carol Ann Duffy perfectly captures the truth of each experience. Love Poems contains some of her most popular poems & always imaginative heartfelt & direct displays all the eloquence & skill that have made her one of the foremost poets of her time. ' Mysterious yet accessible; both truthful & beautiful; this selection is a paean to the power of love & of language's ability to capture it' Sunday Telegraph ' Carol Ann Duffy is a poet who covers the stormy waterfront of desire devotion & despair.. .from distant yearning to wild new passion through absence boredom & infidelity to break-ups grief & solitude.. . As always she manages the rare feat of building on traditions forebears allusions while stirring & shaking the emotions with muscular unpretentious force' Independent ...

Born Jalal ad-Din Mohammed Balkhi in Persia early in the thirteenth century the poet known as Rumi expressed the deepest feelings of the heart through his poetry. This volume consists of new translations edited by Deepak Chopra to evoke the rich mood & music of Rumis love poems. Exalted yearning ravishing ecstasy & consuming desire emerge from these poems as powerfully today as they did on their creation more than 700 years ago. These poems reflect the deepest longings of the human heart as it searches for the divine. They celebrate love. Each poetic whisper is urgent expressing the desire that penetrates human relationships & inspires intimacy with the self silently nurturing an affinity for the Beloved. Both Fereydoun Kia the translator & I hope that you will share the experience of ravishing ecstasy that the poems of Rumi evoked in us. In this volume we have sought to capture in English the dreams wishes hopes desires & feelings of a Persian poet who continues to amaze bewilder confound & teach one thousand years after he walked on this earth
- Deepak Chopra.
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When aromatherapist Sukie Ambrose starts using her cottage garden as inspiration
- & raw ingredients
- for her products she

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Love Stitching is a fabulous new collection of decorative applique & h&-embroidery projects from Jan Constantine featuring some of her bestselling designs for cushions throws wall hangings & other home accessories as well as aprons & bags. A fabulous follow-up to her first book Heirloom Embroidery which focused on traditional embroidery passed down through the generations Love Stitching takes a more modern approach with the use of bright colours & strong shapes in a series of bold striking designs. Capturing a mix of nostalgia romance patriotism exuberance & celebration the funky pop art feel of the Love Stitching collection will inspire homemakers of all ages to get stitching. Inspired by some of Jans favourite things the projects are arranged in five thematic chapters: Love & Hearts In the Country Flying the Flag & Beside the Sea. Suitable for beginners & established embroiderers alike the projects are easy to re-create with step-by-step instructions design templates & clear explanations of techniques & stitches used. Using a mixture of colourful wool felts & both plain & gingham cottons & linens the stunning designs in Love Stitching will be a welcome addition to any home whether it be modern traditional or country in style. ...

The second novel featuring recovering psychotic DC Fiona Griffiths opens with as intriguing a pair of murders as you could imagine. Firstly part of a human leg is discovered in a woman's freezer bagged up like a joint of pork. Other similarly gruesome discoveries follow throughout a cosy Cardiff suburb with body parts turning up in kitchens garages & potting sheds. & while the police are still literally putting the pieces together concluding that they all belong to a teenage girl killed some ten years earlier parts of another body suddenly start appearing but this time discarded carelessly around the countryside clearly very shortly after the victim
- a man
- was killed. Mysteries don't come much more macabre or puzzling than this. Who were the two victims & what connection could they have shared that would result in this bizarre double-discovery? But that's only half the story. The most gruesome moments are much more about Fiona & her curious mental state. There is a complex & very clever double mystery here & what makes the story unique is the parallel unraveling of Fiona's own mystery & it's her voice established precisely in the first book but given even freer rein here that makes it so compelling.

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Ever wished you knew how to fillet a fish or joint a chicken; or how to make sweet pastry or an authentic tagine? This book ...

Sewing is popular with all ages & this series Love to Sew focuses on the latest hot trends. The 64 page handy square format gives us room for at least twenty projects each with simple step-by-step instructions beautiful photographs as well as a basic techniques & materials section at the front of the book. Practical yet pretty a mug rug is one of the latest trends on the sewing & patchwork scene. Basically it is a large coaster with room for your favourite mug & a biscuit or two. Small enough to complete in a few hours but large enough to give space to your creativity a mug rug is an ideal project for trying out some new techniques or even for getting to grips with patchwork quilting or applique for the first time. This book contains a selection of mug rugs designed by renowned international patchwork artists. Revel in the many different designs that can be achieved with various fabrics & techniques & above all have fun making your own mug rug. ...

Sewing is popular with all ages & this series Love to Sew focuses on the latest hot trends. The 64 page handy square format gives us room for twenty projects each with simple step-by-step instructions beautiful photographs as well as sewing techniques. We all use bags. They are not only highly useful but those you make yourself can be real head-turners & say something to the world about who you really are. This book contains a wide range of patchwork designs to choose from many suitable for beginners or those with limited sewing experience. Whether you like the retro look or something more playful or romantic there is something for everyone! There is a bag for every occasion too
- a city bag shopping bag clutch bag travel holdall purse & more.
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A legacy of an empire & a nation at war Love Tommy" is a collection of letters housed at the Imperial War Museum sent by British & Commonwealth troops from Canada Australia New Zealand & South Africa from the front line of war to their loved ones at home. Poignant expressions of love hope & fear sit alongside amusing anecdotes grumbles about rations & thoughtful reflections eloquently revealing how despite the passage of time many experiences of the fighting man are shared in countless wars & battles. From the muddy trenches of the Somme to frozen ground of the Falklands to the heat & dust of Iraq these letters are the ordinary soldiers testament to life on the front line." ...