Esther Rantzen has spent her life tirelessly campaigning on behalf of children and mental health sufferers.
In this personal and anecdotal handbook, she turns her attention to the baby boomer and shows how, ultimately, reaching your fifties and beyond is just the beginning.
Interspersed with practical advice and the occasional nostalgic rant, this is a fun celebration and an inspiration for the nation’s 17 million baby boomers.
Packed with exciting projects for rainy days, greeting card ideas for all year round, plus toys to make for boys and girls, this superb set of eight craft books will not only provide hours of entertainment, but will save you money too!
This book contains 30 activities at elementary level, complete with ideas for boardwork and pictures teachers can copy. All the activities are simple and adaptable. They are particularly well-suited to classrooms where there are few resources apart from a board, paper, and pens - and of course the teacher and the learners themselves.
Both practical and inspirational, this book provides you with a thorough grounding in the basics of stencilling. It also offers a multitude of design ideas for every room in the house. With step-by-step projects complete with ready-to-use pull-out templates, and hundreds of ideas for further creative variations, this is the ideal guide for home stenciling.
Kat Pomfret’s colourful debut novel explores what happens in a small town when big secrets collide. Paradise Jazz is a novel about family, history and identity. It tells the story of two women who have to confront a violent and secret past.
When a human skull is dug up in a garden near Boston, Dr Maura Isles is called in to investigate. She discovers a skeleton of a young woman that has been burried for over a hundred years. But who was the young woman? And how did she die? A gruesome secret is about to be unearthed …
This step-by-step guide by Vivien Crook explains how to use a range of source materials such as coloured paper, colour photocopies, rubber stamps, cards, wrapping paper, and commercial sets of prints, to create 3-D pictures.
It also explains how to protect and display finished work. The equipment required is inexpensive and the only skill needed is that of cutting out, making this craft accessible to anyone.
When Sophie was jsut a few months old, she was adopted by a couple who seemed perfectly respectable but behind closed doors, Sophie’s life was a living hell. In the most horrific ways imaginable, she was her father’s slave. Feeling unable to cope, she spiralled into self-harm and suicidal misery. At 16, she ended up in a psychiatric unit and began the painful journey of rebuilding her life.
In our galaxy, at a time set far in our future, a race of machines returns to harvest the galaxy’s organic life forms every 50,000 years. In the first Mass Effect game, it is the year 2183, and the machines are about to return once again. This book will be a bridging novel set between the first and second Mass Effect games.
Cross Stitcher is the UK’s best-selling crafts magazine. Each issue is packed with inspirational cross stitch designs and exciting new ideas that will help you make the most of this wonderfully relaxing and rewarding hobby.