Frustrated with her stalled career as a broadcast journalist & uninspired by dating naive & needy guys her own age Helen Croydon joins a website to seek an older man. She expects it to be just a few fun dates in some fancy bars but finds herself propelled into a world of Prada shopping trips fine dining first-class travel & fascinating powerful men. Helens soul-searching dating adventures take her to New York Malaysia highbrow sex parties top ski resorts & Londons finest hotels. When one of her dates alludes to a monthly allowance she is shocked but how long will her resistance to the idea last? Sugar Daddy Diaries is a confessional true story that questions modern ideals about relationships examines the attraction of power & asks if money can ever be the currency of love. ...

Frances Mc Naughton shows how to make cute & beautiful sugar fairies for cake decorating using sugarpaste & a few simple tools & techniques. All the shapes needed to make each fairy are clearly shown along with step by step instructions on how to assemble them then each fairy is shown in all its splendour. Funny twists are given to familiar fairies such as the Tooth Fairy a Fairy Godmother & various flower fairies & there are plenty of new ideas such as a Fairy Bride a Dancing Fairy & a Baby Fairy. Lovers of fairies will be thrilled to see any of these appealing creatures on top of a celebratory cake. ...

Lifelike flowers & foliage are yours to make with this great book from Lisa Slatter. Twenty projects cover a variety of sugar flowers including incredibly lifelike roses lilies & orchids. Experienced cake decorator & author Lisa Slatter shows you how to make these wonderful flowers from first principles & simple shapes. This book will appeal to everyone from beginners to flower experts with a mix of fantastic & true-to-life flowers & foliage. ...

This stunning book shows you how to make beautifully realistic sugarcraft flowers for cake decorations. There are detailed ...

Tales of Hardship Love & Happiness in Tate & Lyle's East End Factories ' On an autumn day in 1944 Ethel Alleyne walked the short distance from her house to Tate & Lyle's refinery on the shining curve of the Thames. Looking up at the giant gates Ethel felt like she had been preparing for this moment all her life. She smoothed down her frizzy hair scraped a bit of dirt off the corner of her shoe & strode through. She was quite unprepared for the sight that met her eyes.. .' In the years leading up to & after the Second World War thousands of women left school at fourteen to work in the bustling factories of London's East End. Despite long hours hard & often hazardous work factory life afforded exciting opportunities for independence friendship & romance. Of all the factories that lined the docks it was at Tate & Lyle's where you could earn the most generous wages & enjoy the best social life & it was here where The Sugar Girls worked. Through the Blitz & on through the years of rationing The Sugar Girls kept Britain sweet. The work was back-breakingly hard but Tate & Lyle was more than just a factory it was a community a calling a place of love & support & an uproarious tribal part of the East End. From young Ethel to love-worn Lillian irrepressible Gladys to Miss Smith who tries to keep a workforce of flirtatious young men & women on the straight & narrow this is an evocative moving story of hunger hardship & happiness. Tales of adversity resilience & youthful high spirits are woven together to provide a moving insight into a lost way of life as well as a timeless testament to the experience of being young & female. www.thesugargirls.com ...

In the late 1630s Andrea Stuart's earliest known maternal ancestor set sail from England lured by the promise of the New World to settle in Barbados where he fell by chance into the lucrative life of a sugar plantation owner. With George Ashby's first crop the cane revolution was underway & would go on to transform the Caribbean into an archipelago of riches establishing a thriving worldwide industry that bound together ambitious white entrepreneurs & enslaved black workers. As it grew this sweet colonial trade fuelled the Enlightenment & financed the Industrial Revolution but it also had more direct less palatable consequences for the individuals caught up in it consequences that still haunt the author's past. In this unique personal history Andrea Stuart follows the thread of her own family's involvement with sugar through successive generations telling a story of insatiable greed & forbidden love of abuse & liberation. ...

Sugarcraft really does have a dark side & here are twenty easy-to-make fun projects to prove it. Frances Mc Naughton has delved into the darker recesses of her imagination & produced twenty positively horrid projects that will appeal to children as well as adults. Theres a scary ghost an evil witch a creepy hand emerging from a coffin skulls skeletons vampires bats & more
- perfect for Halloween or for any sort of celebration cake with a scary theme. Each project shows the various components of the model & explains through clear step-by-step instructions how to put it together. A list of all the materials & equipment you need is also provided along with a stylish photograph of the finished item in all its scary splendour. At the beginning of the book some general guidance on sugarcrafting is provided making this an ideal book for novice as well as more experienced cake decorators.
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These sporty sugarpaste characters are the perfect cake toppers for someone special who loves to get active. Choose between a tennis player swimmer golfer footballer gymnast or even a windsurfer. The constituent parts of each sportsperson are shown with the step-by-step instructions & annotated for clarity then each finished sporty is beautifully photographed. Only a few simple tools & techniques are used so anyone can have a go at making these treats. Sport lovers will be thrilled to see any of these fun characters on top of a celebratory cake. The designs will also appeal to makers of polymer clay models. ...

Sugar Street" the climactic conclusion to Mafhouzs masterpiece trilogy is the captivating portrait of a family struggling to change with the rise of modern Egypt. As Cairo shrugs off the final vestiges of colonialism Ahmad Al Jawad has lost his power & surveys the world from a latticed balcony. Unable to control his familys destiny he watches helplessly as his dynasty & the traditions he holds dear disintegrate before his eyes. But through Ahamds three grandsons we see modern how Egypt takes shape. One grandson is a communist activist another a Muslim fundamentalist both working for what they believe will be a better world. & Ridwan the inheritor of his fathers charms launches a political career aided by a homosexual affair with prominent politician." ...

Georgie Godbolds quirky wobbly sugarcrafted figures are packed with character! Included in the book are instructions on how to make a cow cat dog bunny frog dinosaur bee bear an assortment of fairies & much more
- there is something for everyone. This fun adorable book contains step-by-step instructions & helpful photographs to help you begin your sugarcraft journey & create lovely sugary things to amaze your friends & family!
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