This work although primarily about the art of French polishing also contains considerable information that should be useful to those interested in wood finishing. The book offers guidance on: surface preparation cleaning & re-polishing touching up marks staining French polishing wax polishing ebonising stripping & bleaching. The author has been involved with wood finishing for over 25 years. He learnt his skills alongside his father in the family business & now runs his own furniture restoration business. ...

It used to be that winemakers were motivated by cost savings. Not so today. This is a traditional craft area which is going through something of a revival because its produce is so rewarding. It is a hobby that resonates with the rhythms of nature & develops personal skills in taste intuition & good husbandry. Here are dandelion elderflower parsnip & dozens of other renowned country recipes including the famous Mead of old Engl&. It is a country craft which can be pursued in a small town flat to produce the best-ever of country taste experiences! ...

Think Italian cooking & think pastas lean meats seafood fresh vegetables & cheeses where the flavours are full bodied & the food beautiful both to look at & to taste. This is a winning combination in an ever-popular cuisine that looks back to the centuries-old traditions. Invigorate your repertoire with sensational recipes that are impressive for dinner parties as well as perfect for everyday family meals. ...

As more & more artists today look to the past there has been a tremendous resurgence of interest in painting realistically
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Cyril Hobbins ' The Toy Maker from Kenilworth' introduces a wide range of traditional wooden toys dolls & games from around the world. Many of the toys here have stood the test of time proving over the centuries their everlasting appeal to all age groups. The book is richly illustrated throughout with a wealth of Cyril's beautiful watercolour pictures of his toys. This unique book will provide a valuable resource for those wishing to make toys those interested in the history of toys & toymaking & for school teachers for whom the book offers a range of material relevant to many aspects of the National Curriculum. All the featured toys are accompanied by their historical background & full instructions on how to make them. ...

He'd been her friend for years. He said he loved her. Then she realised she didn't know him at all... When everything seemed to be falling apart in Sophie's life she was thankful for her friend Kas who was always at the end of a phone ready to listen & to offer comfort & advice. Her father's cold dislike of her & then her parents' divorce had left her with a deep distrust of men. But gradually Kas made her believe there was at least one man who truly cared about her. But she was wrong. At first when Sophie went to stay for a few days with Kas in Italy he was kind & caring as he'd always been. But three days after she arrived everything changed. His eyes were cold as he described the things he expected her to do 'for love'. But soon Sophie's bewilderment turned to fear as he punched & shouted at her & threatened to kill her adored younger brothers if she didn't do exactly as she was told...to sell her body on the streets to pay off Kas's debts. Terrified of Kas the police & the men whose pleasures she was forced to satisfy Sophie worked seven nights a week for the next six months on the dark & lonely streets of a town in northern Italy. Subjected regularly to Kas's verbal mental & physical abuse she knew she would never escape. & then one day after she'd been admitted to hospital with stomach pains
- & knowing that Kas would kill her if he found out
- she dared to phone her mother. But who would reach her first?

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Tragedy at Law follows a rather self-important High Court judge Mr Justice Barber as he moves from town to town presiding over cases in the Southern England circuit. When an anonymous letter arrives for Barber warning of imminent revenge he dismisses it as the work of a harmless lunatic. But then a second letter appears followed by a poisoned box of the judges favourite chocolates & he begins to fear for his life. Enter barrister & amateur detective Francis Pettigrew a man who was once in love with Barbers wife & has never quite succeeded in his profession
- can he find out who is threatening Barber before it is too late?
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The doomed hero of The Tragedy of Arthur is Arthur Phillips a young man struggling with a larger-than-life father a con artist who works wonders of deception but is a very unreliable parent. Arthur is raised in an enchanted world of smoke & mirrors where the only certain fact is his fathers & beloved sisters shared love for the works of William Shakespeare
- a love so pervasive that Arthur becomes a writer in a misguided bid to win their approval. Near the end of his life Arthurs father shares with him a treasure that he has kept for half a century: a previously unknown play by Shakespeare titled The Tragedy of Arthur. Arthur & his sister also inherit their fathers mission to see the play published & acknowledged as the Bards last great gift to humanity. Unless of course its their fathers last & greatest deception.
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For this updated critical edition of King Lear Professor Halio has added a new introductory section on recent stage film & critical interpretations of the play. He gives a comprehensive account of Shakespeare's sources & the literary political & folkloric influences at work in the play; a detailed reading of the action; & a substantial stage history of major productions. Professor Halio chooses the Folio as the text for this edition. He explains the differences between the quarto & Folio versions & alerts the reader to the rival claims of the quarto by means of a sampling of parallel passages in the Introduction & by an appendix which contains annotated passages unique to the quarto. An updated reading list completes the edition. ...

In LORD JOHN & THE PLAGUE OF ZOMBIES Lord John Grey is posted to Jamaica to assist the Governor as he faces a most unusual kind of uprising among the colony's slave population. In THE SPACE BETWEEN Jamie Fraser's step-daughter Joan is on her way to an abbey in Paris to become a nun
- but when she meets the Comte St Germain a wealthy French aristocrat rumoured to deal in the occult
- she discovers her destiny lies on quite a different path. In THE CUSTOM OF THE ARMY Lord John Grey is summoned as a witness in a court martial in the wilds of Acadia only to find himself playing a crucial role in the Battle of Quebec. In A LEAF ON THE WIND OF ALL HALLOWS a WW2 Spitfire pilot called Jerry Mac Kenzie crashes near a stone circle & wakes up in the eighteenth century. Can the strange man he meets
- who impossibly seems to know him
- help him return to his wife & baby son before a terrible fate overtakes them?



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