This title describes the construction painting & finishing of most of the scenic elements used in professional theatre. Supported by over 200 illustrations the book covers the production process setting up your own workshop or paint studio & constructing modern timber scenery. Finishing your work including the use of timber mouldings adhesives paints & stains interpreting & mixing colour & getting value for your money through innovation & invention are also explored. ...

This invaluable & well-illustrated book describes landscape modelling from a new perspective. It explains in detail how to design & construct a model railway in a convincing & pleasing landscape. The author has always considered that model railway dioramas are an art form & this book is brimming with advice & tips that will allow the modeller to create true-to-life landscapes. ...

The hunter has become the prey! The headless corpses of three men are found in a London side street. Their mutilated torsos are witness to an unspeakably agonizing death. It becomes chillingly clear that this discovery is a horrific message to the Metropolitan Police
- & to one officer in particular. DI Stacey Collins finds herself on the hunt for a psychopathic killer. But it would seem that this is no ordinary homicide! All the victims had themselves been predators terrorizing the innocent. Is this a twisted vigilante mission or something far more sinister? Meanwhile Collins must battle her own demons as the METs Internal Affairs department investigate her past & her connections to Londons underworld. Collins faces her toughest challenge yet
- torn between justice & revenge.

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This title is fifth in the brilliantly addictive series of murder mysteries by an acclaimed & popular writer. When Poppy Fields & best friend Graham go on a weekend trip to the zoo it soon becomes apparent that the staff there are not happy. Then one of them suddenly dies. & then another. & another... Someones using the animals to do their dirty work for them & the result is not pretty. Will the intrepid pair uncover the murderer before they too become dead meat? This title features Miss Marple for the younger reader. ...

Tim Lott's parents Jack & Jean met at the Empire Snooker Hall Ealing in 1951 in a world that to him now seems 'as strange as China'. In this extraordinarily moving exploration of his parents' lives his mother's inexplicable suicide in her late fifties & his own bouts of depression Tim Lott conjures up the pebble-dashed home of his childhood & the rapidly changing landscape of postwar suburban Engl&. It is a story of grief loss & dislocation yet also of the power of memory & the bonds of family love. ...

Rachel & her brother are extraordinary. She is a spell-maker. He is a destroyer of spells. The High Witch Heebra wants Rachel & Eric crushed & her enemies the Wizards destroyed. A party of witches is dispatched to find the thousands of children with powers like Rachels & turn them into a ferocious army. Can Rachel & Eric stop the witches & win the battle between good & evil? The second instalment of the classic Doomspell Trilogy. ...

We might not like to admit to it but everyone
- even the gentlest of souls
- derives a secret guilty satisfaction from the

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A reckless father his dark past a drug trafficker & the Gold Coast beauty-school dropout who kept her mouth shut. This is the explosive untold story of Schapelle Corby & how she took the rap for her fathers drug syndicate. The result of a three-year investigation Eamonn Duff returns to the beginning of one of the worlds most famous drug cases to a time when nobody had ever heard the name Schapelle Corby. Finally the missing pieces of the jigsaw fall into place as we are led step by step through the important weeks days & hours leading up to her dramatic arrest. Shedding new light on her long-held claims of innocence this is the book Schapelles army of supporters do not want you to read. ...

The Ship Craft series provides in-depth information about building & modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class highlighting differences between sister-ships & changes in their appearance over their careers. This

Includes:: paint schemes & camouflage featuring colour profiles & highly-detailed line drawings & scale plans. The modelling section reviews the strengths & weaknesses of available kits lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the ships & provides hints on modifying & improving the basic kit. This is followed by an extensive photographic gallery of selected high-quality models in a variety of scales & the book concludes with a section on research references
- books monographs large-scale plans & relevant websites. The two German ships which form the subject of this volume were among the first products of rearmament under Hitler. For political reasons they were neither as large nor as well armed as foreign equivalents but they were very fast which led them to be described as battlecruisers in some quarters. They enjoyed an adventurous war both surviving heavy damage before Scharnhorst was sunk in an epic gun battle off the North Cape while Gneisenau succumbed to heavy air attack.


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