Modern design is beautiful functional idiosyncratic & still relatively affordable. Designs that were once thought of as too avant-garde for functional use are now appreciated for the bold thinking & originality that went into making them. However many of these objects are just being discovered by collectors & their craftsmanship & importance is only now being measured. This book now available in the perfect gift size tells you everything you need to know about a the most important pieces of design. With in-depth analysis & a comprehensive selection of images you can be confident in choosing the very best pieces from a period of intense innovation. Is Le Corbusier the new Chippendale? Is Charles Eames the new Duncan Phyffe? Get the inside track on which designs are the true Classics. ...

Every year more than 8 000 items are photographed to make Millers Antiques Handbook the most comprehensive & informative price guide on the market. Whether youre buying or selling a dealer collector or auctioneer this is the book you need to help you keep track of the international market. Whenever youre buying or selling always take Judith with you. ...

More than 4 000 items are photographed to make Miller's Collectables Price Guide the most comprehensive & informative price guide on the market. Whether you're buying or selling a dealer collector or auctioneer this is the book you need to help you keep track of the international market. From cups & saucers to teddy bears Scandinavian glass to Pez dispensers Miller's Collectables Price Guide reflects the collectables market like no other book. It not only gives you the prices but explains why one item is worth more than another. Whenever you're buying or selling always take Miller's with you. ...

Dazzling stunning covetable & often decadent costume jewellery has brought sparkle & elegance to the world of fashion for centuries. ...

All that stuff you're tempted to throw away isn't rubbish it's a new beginning! If it's broken Judith Miller will show you how to fix it; if it's past its prime learn how to give it a stylish revamp for next to nothing; & if it's in good nick or a valuable antique but you just don't want it anymore discover how to turn it into money with a complete guide to selling on e Bay to dealers & at car boot sales. You'll never throw anything away again
- & save pounds into the bargain
- with this super-easy guide to repairing transforming & selling everything around your home. This practical guide will help you to identify the antiques & collectables in your home. With advice on when cleaning renovating or revamping will add value
- or whether to sell something as it is you'll learn how to get the best price for your treasures whether selling at auction to a dealer at a car boot sale or online.


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From bestselling author Jill Mansell comes a fabulous novel of love friendship & unsuitable men... When Millie Brady saves Orla Harts life she doesnt realise how drastically it will change her own
- not least because the boyfriend who was asking her to move in with him at the time stormed off in a huff. Actually Millies relieved. Shes happy to enjoy a man-free summer in Cornwall. But Orla has other ideas. Shes determined that Millie should meet the man of her dreams. Trouble is Millies taste in men doesnt tally with Orlas. The one who really interests her is Hugh Emerson & hes the man with whom Orlas adamant she mustnt get involved...
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Millie loves hats but she has no money & she cant afford to buy any of the lovely hats in town. But the man in the hat shop has an idea. He produces a box containing a hat too fine & beautiful to behold but with the most perfect shape & colour imaginable if Millie dares to imagine it. Millie does dare & soon she can not only see her own beautiful hat but everyone elses hats as well. ...

With his lightning-quick wit unbridled creativity & his ear for the absurd Milligan revolutionised British comedy leaving a legacy of influence that stretches from Monty Pythons Flying Circus" to the work of self-confessed acolytes such as Eddie Izzard & Stephen Fry today. Throughout his life Milligan wrote prolifically
- scripts poetry fiction as well as several volumes of memoir in which he took an entirely idiosyncratic approach to the truth. In this ground-breaking work Norma Farnes his long-time manager companion counsellor & confidante gathers together the loose threads reads between the lines & draws on the full breadth of his writing to present his life in his own words: an autobiography
- of sorts. From his childhood in India through his early career as a jazz musician & sketch-show entertainer his spells in North Africa & Italy with the Royal Artillery to that fateful first broadcast of " The Goon Show" & beyond into the annals of comedy history this is the autobiography Milligan never wrote."

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Milligans War" is the one-volume selected edition of Spike Milligans war memoirs published to celebrate the seventieth birthday of Britains funniest old soldier on 16 April 1988. Adolf Hitler Monty Mussolini Rommel (who?)
- all played their modest parts in the second world war & the shaping of human destiny but we all know where the real action was... Milligans war documents in words & pictures. It is the most scurrilous bizarre & certainly the most hilarious military career embarked upon by any bombardier of the 56th heavy regiment royal artillery ever."
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Milling is the process of cutting away material
- usually but not exclusively metal
- by feeding a piece of work pas a rotating

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