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The autobiography of Ted Macauley - a fascinating glimpse into the glamorous world of an award-winning sports journalist and columnist, detailing his exciting lifestyle, and featuring personal insights into the sporting heroes and celebrities who became his closest friends.

Learn to weave your own stories and make personalised woven wall art with this guide to tapestry weaving. A collection of wonderful woven hangings for you to build your tapestry weaving skills. Learn all the techniques you'll need to create your own woven tapestries with a unique, personalised element.

A practical handbook for a more sustainable life. Whether you have a large country garden or a small city backyard, this essential guide includes expert advice on growing a wide range of your own fruit and vegetables, as well as harvesting, storing and preserving your produce, keeping livestock and using alternative energy.

Focusing on car racing and karting, the book is your thorough one-stop guide for new racing drivers, from how to gain a race licence to finding the right championship, car and equipment, to learning how to utilise track time, professional race simulators and instruction, and joining the grid for your first race.

Alice has found her place with the other dinosaurs at school. She can use her clever brain to help her classmates learn! And when new dinosaur Caitlin joins her class, Alice must overcome her fear of talking to unfamiliar dinosaurs, and help her classmates learn that not everyone likes to be teased.

A legend on the road, race track and rally stage, the Lancia Integrale was a machine to be reckoned with during it heyday in the 1980s. This book tells the full story of this much sought-after car.

This is the definitive history of the first generation Mazda MX-5 - also known as the Miata or Eunos Roadster. A fully revised version of an old favourite, now focussing on the original NA series, this book covers all major markets, and includes stunning contemporary photography gathered from all over the world.

The complete history of Mazda's rotary engine-powered vehicles, from Cosmo 110S to RX-8. Charting the challenges, sporting triumphs, and critical reactions to a new wave of sports sedans, wagons, sports cars ... and trucks!

This bedside book gives kids and young teens a space to monitor their moods every day in a fun and rewarding way. Each night, they colour in the day's illustration and see it build over the month to create a record of their emotional state, allowing comparisons day by day, month by month, year by year for a five-year period.

A record of Fiat's achievements from the early days of motor racing to the present day, including land speed record attempts, the development of `Balilla' based sports cars, Fiat based specials and the superb 8V coupe of 1952. Abarth's role in achieving three World Rally Championships is also detailed.

A story of unusual friendships and adventure. Deep in the darkest place in the sea, a volcano erupts, forcing a group of strange and wonderful deep-sea creatures to set off on a journey of discovery. Along the way they forge unusual friendships, discover a world they never knew, and meet unexpected challenges in their search for a new home.

Learn how to applique the Sew Quirky way for fun, sewn projects. This collection of 12 designs for bright and bold machine applique patterns can be used to create bags, pillows, quilts as well as embellish clothes. Author, Mandy Murray, explains the fusible applique techniques to recreate her quirky designs. .

Crumb quilting is the way to zero waste patchwork. Learn how to use your tiniest scraps to create beautiful quilts and quilted projects and bust your stash!This is a collection of 15 projects made using the teeniest, tiniest leftover pieces of fabric from your latest quilting or sewing project.

Covering Chevrolet's specialized sport coupe, during the classic 1967-81 era. Relive those outlandish hi po Camaros, from legendary speed shops Baldwin-Motion, Dana, Nickey and Yenko. Fuel crisis, insurance and the EPA? Don't worry, the Bowtie boys had your back in the showroom, and on the track.

An updated edition of The Cloud Book, featuring 12 new recognised cloud forms. This guide to the clouds helps you identify cloud types and understand their implications for the weather. It follows a logical progression from low clouds to high stratus clouds, and on to special clouds, with a foreword from the Met Office's chief meteorologist.

Knit yourself stunning Latvian accessories including gloves, scarves and shawls with this collection of colourwork knitting patterns from the author of Knit Like a Latvian: Mittens and Socks.

A humorous book for children, full of crazy creatures in bizarre circumstances. With an animal for every letter of the alphabet, and funny stories to go with each one, alliteration has never been such fun! Prepare yourself for some terrific tongue-twisters, alphabetic athletics and amazingly adventurous animals!

From the author of the bestselling The Bag Making Bible comes an outstanding collection of 12 inspiring bags for you to make at home.

Create unique i-cord words and shapes with this modern guide to French knitting with a mechanical knitting mill. This fun book gives you 40 fabulous i-cord projects - from gifts to clothing, accessories to home decor and more. No knitting mill? No problem! All the projects can be knitted in the traditional method too.

An enthusiast's guide to the commercial and racing history of Ford's Maverick and Comet, charting their development and market battles with domestic and imported rivals, as Ford acknowledged the growing importance of small cars. Covers the sporty Maverick Grabber and Comet GT, luxury LDO and Custom Option, plus drag racing exploits.

A comprehensive trouble-shooter that no TR2 or TR3 owner should be without. This handy book describes all the main components of these cars and details what can go wrong with each of them, how to fix common problems and even a number of improvements that can be made to the car.

Easy sewing patterns for cute cat designs, made using simple hand-sewing techniques. Featuring the most popular and distinctive breeds, each pattern comes with step-by-step instructions and full-size templates. The finished little kitties would make cute brooches, bag charms and home accessories that will make your cat-loving friends have kittens!

Celebrate Christmas the zero-waste way with these crafty solutions for everything from decorations to gift bags. Craft your own sustainable Christmas: create plastic-free crackers for the table, no-waste decorations for the tree and zero-waste wrapping and present solutions for your family and friends.

For anyone who has ever dreamed of hitting the road in a vintage camper and whose love of food is matched by their desire for glamorous camping. This is a guide to bringing together the practical and the cool, with lots of tips and al fresco dining ideas which work spectacularly well on the very limited resources at your disposal.

Learn how to knit more sustainably with this practical guide from knitting blogger and environmentalist, Epipa. This collection of 20 projects shows you how you can make your knitting more environmentally friendly by choosing the most eco friendly yarns as well as tips on how to reduce your yarn footprint.

Hexagons are quick and easy to crochet and can be combined in a myriad of ways to create a huge range of projects - from garments and accessories to home decor and even toys. In this unique collection or creative designs, popular crochet designer Sarah Shrimpton reveals 10 easy crochet hexagon patterns and 20 simple step-by-step projects.

Organized by emotional states, this book will help you cultivate emotional intelligence as you develop greater awareness of your current mood and practice consciously with crystals. A thorough questionnaire allows you to assess what you're feeling and decide which crystal or combination of crystals will be most beneficial to you.

Learn how to combine watercolor with hand lettering to create beautiful art and gifts. Artist Tanja Poeltl shares the know-how she's learned on her creative journey so that you can fast-track your skills. 20 step-by-step projects include gift boxes, journals, cards, labels, posters, hoop art, table runners, height charts, box frames and more.

Turn your kitchen into a waste-free zone with crafty solutions for everything from 'unpaper' towels to citrus antibacterial wipes. The zero waste movement is huge and this collection will help you to craft your own zero waste solutions - create beeswax wraps for storing food, make your own paper caddy liners and create herb pots from empty bottles.

A comprehensive history of the iconic British GT car, this book looks at the Elite's place in Lotus' past. Interviews with ex-factory staff and current owners define the car's place in the classic car scene of today. Illustrated with colour photos and period advertising material, providing essential reading for the Lotus Elite enthusiast.