Store-bought soft furnishings can be expensive and the choice is often limited but with so many gorgeous designer fabrics on sale, there's never been a better time to make your own. Sewing in No Time sets out 50 simple step-by-step projects using nothing more than the most basic of sewing skills. Cosy and colourful scatter cushions, stylish curtains and blinds, elegant table linen, handy storage bags and baskets, a comfy cushion for a garden bench and even a funky play tent for the kids to...

Turn your garden into a bright summer paradise with a collection of 35 projects to create stylish, fragrant and abundant displays. There are gorgeous flowering plants, lush foliage, special occasion displays, and edible fruit and vegetable harvests. The projects in Small Summer Gardens include hanging baskets, window boxes, beautiful flower beds, large and small pots, and pretty recycled containers. Create a display of foxgloves and woodland plants in a rusty trunk, scented sweet peas in a...

Teeny Tiny Gardening is horticulture on the smallest of scales. No matter how tiny your space - indoor or outdoor, garden, yard, balcony or even just a windowsill or tabletop - here you will find original, fun and inspiring ideas. The 35 projects range from an elegant fern terrarium and a scented spring bulb basket to colourful woven bags and hessian sacks filled with cheerful summer blooms. There are edible gardens, including fruit bushes planted in catering-sized kitchen pans and a verti...

Sewing is fun – learn how to do it yourself with this step-by-step guide. Pick up this book and you'll soon be a sewing whiz, using a wide variety of hand stitches and learning how to sew on a zip, attach buttons, embroider, and appliqué. In Jewellery and Accessories, you can make adorable watermelon slice brooches or a fun raccoon scarf, while Toys and Dolls features a fake fur teddy bear that would make a great gift – he's so sweet, though, that you might want to keep him for yourself! N...

With 35 projects that you'll love to make and a helpful techniques section, this book will teach you all about sewing machines. Start out with Clothes and Accessories, where you can make a felt collar and cosy scarf, as well as a pretty skirt.

A memoir of menstruation, madness and monsters.Every twenty-nine days, Emma Hardy is an absolute mess. She is irritable, depressed, angry, weepy, out of control. She lays in bed, stares at the walls for hours. Then it passes, and she forgets about it. When a doctor diagnoses her with PMDD, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, she begins to question when a mood is just a mood, and when a mood becomes an illness.Searching for truth between the myths and taboos that surround menst...

Build a fiddle with a character and voice all its own, with this step-by-step guide to practical fiddle making Folk Fiddle – Making, Crafting and Decorating is a richly illustrated guide for makers who want to step beyond classical violin conventions and create instruments that celebrate the artistry, storytelling and freedom of folk music. Drawing on years of hands-on experience, luthier Emma Hardy takes you through each stage of the process, from choosing timber and designing body shapes...

Emma aime passer quelques jours de vacances à la ferme de ses grands-parents. Elle y retrouve chaque année tous les animaux, elle donne un coup de main pour nourrir les cochons ou ramasser les œufs, et surtout elle joue pendant des heures avec ses cousins.Mais cette année, c’est différent. Emma a reçu une tablette pour son anniversaire. Alors, elle passe tout son temps sur son écran à regarder des vidéos et jouer à des jeux.Va-t-elle se rendre compte à temps qu’elle est en ...

Woman Much Missed is the first book-length study of the many poems (over 150) that Thomas Hardy composed in the wake of the death of his first wife Emma in November of 1912. Mark Ford uses these poems to develop a narrative of their four-year courtship on the remote and romantic coast of Cornwall where they met, and then follows Thomas's poetic recreation of the slow degeneration of their marriage and their embittered final decade. Ford shows how Emma's writings and experiences du...

A Collection of six classic chilling horror stories includingThe Phantom Coach by Ameia Edwards and The Open Window by Saki.

Prior to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, the Arctic and Antarctic regions were experiencing significant growth in tourist arrivals. In the aftermath of this global crisis, the tourism industry has rebounded and the number of tourists visiting the polar regions is expected to keep growing significantly in the coming years. Remote regions are increasingly accessible as tourism actors develop technologies, diversify activities and itineraries, and climate change worsens. In ...

The Complete 2019 Christmas Collection from Mills & BoonA Collection of Christmas Romances from Mills & Boon, including:Christmas SecretsPostcards at ChristmasThe Billionaire’s New Year GiftHot Docs on Call his Christmas WishThe Midwife’s Christmas BabyTheir Twin Christmas SurpriseA New Year BrideThe Billionaire’s Christmas DesireHer Mistletoe MagicHer Christmas PrinceChristmas at his Chat...