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 1640s Andrea Stuarts 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 Ashbys 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 authors past. In this unique personal history Andrea Stuart follows the thread of her own familys involvement with sugar through successive generations telling a story of insatiable greed & forbidden love of abuse & liberation. ...

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. ...

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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This delightful book shows you how to make beautifully realistic sugarcraft flowers for cake decorations. There are detailed instructions on how to make 25 flowers with the emphasis firmly on the simple garden flowers that keen sugarcrafters want to create from delicate flowers such as freesia pansy & daisy to favourites such as rose & carnation & bold flowers like sunflower & poppy. Each project has a full materials & tools list detailed instructions & step-by-step photographs as well as a photograph of the finished flowers simply displayed. There is a useful section at the back of the book that shows you how the different types of flowers can be arranged into sprays & arrangements to suit any occasion. In addition there is a section at the beginning of the book which gives information about all the tools & materials as well as essential techniques such as making pulled flowers making leaves veining frilling & glazing. This book shows you how to make beautiful life-like flowers using simple techniques while stunning step-by-step photographs show you how each flower is created. ...

Ellie Summer & Jasmine are so excited to visit Sugarsweet Bakery to watch the annual baking contest. But soon evil Queen Malice & her horrible Storm Sprites arrive to spoil the fun. Can the girls find a way to save the competition & get the silverspun sugar they need to help cure King Merry? ...

Craig Bartlett-Taylor was always trying to kill himself but when he took an overdose at the back of Mrs Kennas classroom Richie thought hed finally succeeded: it was a real-life Worst Case Scenario. But then the new kid Freddy steps in & saves Craigs life & for Richie the lure of this mysterious newcomer is irresistible. Freddy is like nobody Richie has ever met. Dark sardonic & dangerous he gives flight to Richies imagination introducing him to a way of life hed never thought possible. But when a night-time prank goes gut-wrenchingly wrong Richie begins to question Freddys motives & all too soon he finds himself committed to a sinister pact with inescapably tragic consequences. Its true that Freddy saved a life
- but could he take one too? With great wit & an unflinching eye for the muddle & drama of adolescence The Suicide Club" is a pitch-perfect portrait of teenage disaffection that sets boy against boy imagination against reason
- & ultimately life against death."

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With the twenty-first century just a distant memory & the world in environmental chaos many people have lost the will to live. & business is brisk at The Suicide Shop. Run by the Tuvache family for generations the shop offers an amazing variety of ways to end it all with something to fit every budget. The Tuvaches go mournfully about their business taking pride in the morbid service they provide. Until the youngest member of the family threatens to destroy their contented misery by confronting them with something they've never encountered before: a love of life. ...