Beaded elegance at its bestBeads can go everywhere, from intricate home decor accents to dazzling jewelry. Learn how to create unique, beaded works of art yourself in this complete guide of beading techniques. Even if you have never worked with beads before, you'll quickly learn how to bead like the pros. After introducing basic terms and tools, Jane Davis guides you through more than a dozen techniques, and you will complete samples to reinforce the skills learned...

Twenty years of change, One person who caresThird Edition, 384 pages when in paperback'… reminds me of being inside a kaleidoscope; colourful, surreal, real, poignant and offering an ever-changing, intense view of what it means to be human.' Amazon Reviewer.A photograph of a barn owl in flight."The wings, all spread out and that? They're kind of like an angel's."He's right.It's Aimee's owl, Aimee's angel.Tim...

A richly imagined literary historical novel set in Georgian London, based on a true story.Volume 2 of the Chiswell Street ChroniclesLondon, 1780. As the city smoulders in the aftermath of the Gordon Riots, booksellers James and Dorcas Lackington refuse to answer despair with charity. Instead, they place their faith in something far more radical: books.Convinced that reading...

It has taken conviction to right the wrongs. It will take courage to learn how to live again.'An all-round triumph.' John HudspithWinner of 'The Selfies' Best Independent Fiction Author Award at London Book Fair 2019For the families of the victims of the St Botolph and Old Billingsgate disaster, the undoing of a miscarriage of justice should be a cause for rejoicing. For more than thirteen years, the search for truth has eaten up e...

Some books are nice additions to a library, and others are cornerstone selections. This book is one of those foundational references you can rely on for years to come.From its easy-to-use format, to the collection of 200 pattern stitches, this book is a quick and easy guide to all things knitting. The techniques and insight you glean from Knitting - The Complete Guide can be applied to any project, such as the socks, gloves, hat and sweater projects featured inside.

Revitalize classic embroidery stitches for a contemporary look simply by adding beads to your needlework.Learn how to embroider with beads on anything from bags and boxes to pillows and purses with Bead Embroidery: The Complete Guide. Through thorough research, her own personal experience and a visual smorgasbord of 525 photographs and 265 how-to illustrations, best selling author Jane Davis teaches you 215 embroidery stitches - from the common to the uniq...

London 1949. The lives of three very different women are about to collide.'An extraordinary novel so rich and detailed you emerge feeling as if you've just watched a classic film.' ~ JJ Marsh, authorLike most working-class daughters, seventeen-year-old Caroline Wilby is expected to help support her family. Far from home and alone in a strange city, she must grab any opportunity that comes her way. Even if that means putting herself in danger.

A boy with his head in the clouds. A man with a head full of dreams.'With an eye for precise detail balanced by a sweeping imagination, this beautifully constructed book is built on deep foundations.' - JJ Marsh, author of the Beatrice Stubbs SeriesThe symptoms of scarlet fever are easily mistaken for teething, as Robert Cooke and his pregnant wife Freya discover at the cost of their two infant sons. Freya immediately isolates fo...

Books have been her only solace. Now they're about to change her life.'Dorcas is as appealing and extraordinary in her circumstances as Elizabeth Bennett or Mrs Dalloway' ~ JJ Marsh, author of Salt of the EarthLondon, 1775: The only surviving child of six, Dorcas Turton should have been heiress to a powerful family name. But after her mother's untimely death, she is stunned by the discovery that her father's compulsive gam...

Historical Fiction from an Award Winning Author'Touching, exciting, romantic and tender, this novel shines in the deft hands of its author.' Compulsion ReadsWhat if the villain of your childhood turned out to be someone really rather extraordinary?Edwardian Brighton. A wide-eyed girl enters Mr Parker's photographic studio and receives her first lesson about the new medium that will shape her life: "Can you think of a really...

'A compelling portrayal of the bohemian life of an activist poet, the men she loves, and the issues she fights for.' Eleanor SteeleA rose garden. A woman with white hair. An embossed envelope from the palace.Lucy Forrester, for services to literature, you are n**ominated for a New Year's Honour.Her hands shake. But it's not excitement. It's rage.For five decades, she's performed angry poems, attacked government policy on ev...

'Davis has a light touch. She writes with subtlety and nuance. And she does something many writers of literary fiction fail to do: she tells a good story.' ~ Put It In Writing Book Blog.My Counterfeit SelfFrom the award-winning author of Half-truths and White Lies and An Unknown Woman, comes an emotional story of hidden identities, complicated passions and tangled truths.'Completely gripping, excellently written and so skilfully put tog...