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The Gentle Art of Domesticity

by Jane Brocket ...

The Gentle Art of Domesticity is a book that has changed many lives. Now it’s back by popular demand. This is not a how-to book with diagrams and instructions, but an inspirational and articulate defence of the home as a place to express creativity and personality. Jane Brocket delights in domesticity. Lively, curious and creative, she takes inspiration from her surroundings, art, literature and ... Read more

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The Gentle Art of Domesticity is a book that has changed many lives. Now it’s back by popular demand. This is not a how-to book with diagrams and instructions, but an inspirational and articulate defence of the home as a place to express creativity and personality. Jane Brocket delights in domesticity. Lively, curious and creative, she takes inspiration from her surroundings, art, literature and
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High Wages

by Dorothy Whipple ...

High Wages (1930) was Dorothy Whipple's second novel. It is about a girl called Jane who gets a badly-paid job in a draper’s shop in the early years of the last century. Yet the title of the book is based on a Carlyle quotation ‘Experience doth take dreadfully high wages, but she teacheth like none other’ and Jane, having saved some money and been lent some by a friend, opens her own dress-shop. ... Read more

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High Wages (1930) was Dorothy Whipple's second novel. It is about a girl called Jane who gets a badly-paid job in a draper’s shop in the early years of the last century. Yet the title of the book is based on a Carlyle quotation ‘Experience doth take dreadfully high wages, but she teacheth like none other’ and Jane, having saved some money and been lent some by a friend, opens her own dress-shop.
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The Gentle Art of Quilt-Making

15 Projects Inspired by Everyday Beauty

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The Gentle Art of Quilt-Making is a charming, inspirational and practical collection of 15 quilts for would-be quilters by leading author Jane Brocket.In this imaginative quilting book, Jane introduces readers to 15 quilts inspired by moments, places and objects from our world. There’s a Lisbon Tile Quilt, inspired by Portugese décor, a Floral Frocks Quilt inspired by summer garden party dresses, ... Read more

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The Gentle Art of Quilt-Making is a charming, inspirational and practical collection of 15 quilts for would-be quilters by leading author Jane Brocket.In this imaginative quilting book, Jane introduces readers to 15 quilts inspired by moments, places and objects from our world. There’s a Lisbon Tile Quilt, inspired by Portugese décor, a Floral Frocks Quilt inspired by summer garden party dresses,
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Quilt Me!

Using inspirational fabrics to create over 20 beautiful quilts

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An exciting new title from the leading quilt author, Quilt Me! celebrates Jane Brocket’s liberated, joyous, colourful approach to quilting using wonderful fabrics and simple shapes and patterns to create stunning effects.Taking ‘inspirational fabrics’ as its starting point, the book explores not only thedesigns available in cotton, made-for-the-market quilt/patchwork fabrics, butalso moves into a ... Read more

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An exciting new title from the leading quilt author, Quilt Me! celebrates Jane Brocket’s liberated, joyous, colourful approach to quilting using wonderful fabrics and simple shapes and patterns to create stunning effects.Taking ‘inspirational fabrics’ as its starting point, the book explores not only thedesigns available in cotton, made-for-the-market quilt/patchwork fabrics, butalso moves into a
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How to Look at Stained Glass

A Guide to the Church Windows of England

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A fresh, unstuffy guide to the stained-glass windows of England's churches, including a list of the top 50 places to see outstanding examples.The magical qualities of stained glass have an enduring appeal, but church windows tend to be ignored as a form of creative and artistic expression. Yet churches are accessible treasure trove of history, art and craftsmanship. No other set of historic ... Read more

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A fresh, unstuffy guide to the stained-glass windows of England's churches, including a list of the top 50 places to see outstanding examples.The magical qualities of stained glass have an enduring appeal, but church windows tend to be ignored as a form of creative and artistic expression. Yet churches are accessible treasure trove of history, art and craftsmanship. No other set of historic
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Cold, Crunchy, Colorful

Using Our Senses

by Jane Brocket ...

Series series Jane Brocket's Clever Concepts
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience!Seeing brightly colored flowers, hearing nuts go "crunch," and feeling cold ice cream on your tongue—we use our senses to explore the world. How many ways to use your senses can you find in this book? ... Read more

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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience!Seeing brightly colored flowers, hearing nuts go "crunch," and feeling cold ice cream on your tongue—we use our senses to explore the world. How many ways to use your senses can you find in this book?
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Turkish Delight & Treasure Hunts

Delightful Treats and Games from Classic Children's Books

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"We must do something," said Alice...."Yes, but what shall we do?" said Dicky...."Let's read all the books again. We shall get lots of ideas out of them."-The Story of the Treasure Seekers E. NesbitWith the delightful activities and delicious recipes in Turkish Delight & Treasure Hunts you'll learn how to follow in the footsteps of your favorite childhood heroes, from the Borrowers and Alice in ... Read more

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"We must do something," said Alice...."Yes, but what shall we do?" said Dicky...."Let's read all the books again. We shall get lots of ideas out of them."-The Story of the Treasure Seekers E. NesbitWith the delightful activities and delicious recipes in Turkish Delight & Treasure Hunts you'll learn how to follow in the footsteps of your favorite childhood heroes, from the Borrowers and Alice in
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Seeing brightly colored flowers, hearing nuts go "crunch," and feeling cold ice cream on your tongue—we use our senses to explore the world. How many ways to use your senses can you find in this book? ... Read more

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Seeing brightly colored flowers, hearing nuts go "crunch," and feeling cold ice cream on your tongue—we use our senses to explore the world. How many ways to use your senses can you find in this book?
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They Knew Mr Knight

by Dorothy Whipple ...

The Blakes are an ordinary family: Celia looks after the house and Thomas works at the family engineering business in Leicester. The book begins when he meets Mr Knight, a financier as crooked as any on the front pages of our newspapers nowadays; and tracks his and his family's swift climb and fall.Part of the cause of the ensuing tragedy is Celia's innocence - blinkered by domesticity, she and ... Read more

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The Blakes are an ordinary family: Celia looks after the house and Thomas works at the family engineering business in Leicester. The book begins when he meets Mr Knight, a financier as crooked as any on the front pages of our newspapers nowadays; and tracks his and his family's swift climb and fall.Part of the cause of the ensuing tragedy is Celia's innocence - blinkered by domesticity, she and
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Because of the Lockwoods

by Dorothy Whipple ...

'The story is deceptively simple: the entanglement of two families in a northern town called Aldworth. One, the Lockwoods, wealthy and powerful, in a position to patronise and help the second family, the poor Hunters, who have been left fatherless with a weak, ineffectual mother. Though the thudding heart of the story draws the reader inexorably along, hoping for the meek to conquer the strong, it ... Read more

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'The story is deceptively simple: the entanglement of two families in a northern town called Aldworth. One, the Lockwoods, wealthy and powerful, in a position to patronise and help the second family, the poor Hunters, who have been left fatherless with a weak, ineffectual mother. Though the thudding heart of the story draws the reader inexorably along, hoping for the meek to conquer the strong, it
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Greenbanks

by Dorothy Whipple ...

Persephone Books' bestselling author Dorothy Whipple's third novel (1932) was the choice of the Book Society in the summer of that year. Hugh Walpole wrote: ‘To put it plainly, in Dorothy Whipple's picture of a quite ordinary family before and after the war there is some of the best creation of living men and women that we have had for a number of years in the English novel. She is a novelist of ... Read more

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Persephone Books' bestselling author Dorothy Whipple's third novel (1932) was the choice of the Book Society in the summer of that year. Hugh Walpole wrote: ‘To put it plainly, in Dorothy Whipple's picture of a quite ordinary family before and after the war there is some of the best creation of living men and women that we have had for a number of years in the English novel. She is a novelist of
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Fanfare for Tin Trumpets

by Margery Sharp ...

He also made himself a weekly allowance of five shillings for cigarettes, stationery, amusements, shoe-repairs, razor-blades, laundry, toothpaste, hospitality and 'bus fares; and having thus cut his coat to his cloth, wore it in great content.The only thing he had not allowed for (and this in an author must surely be considered strange) was Love.Upon the death of his distant, unaffectionate father ... Read more

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He also made himself a weekly allowance of five shillings for cigarettes, stationery, amusements, shoe-repairs, razor-blades, laundry, toothpaste, hospitality and 'bus fares; and having thus cut his coat to his cloth, wore it in great content.The only thing he had not allowed for (and this in an author must surely be considered strange) was Love.Upon the death of his distant, unaffectionate father
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