Author: Annie DarlingPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0008275688
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
‘Funny and romantic – a perfect winter warmer!’ The Sun
A Change of Heart at the Vintage Dress Shop
Author: Annie DarlingPublisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1399715356
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Cressida Collins is the queen of makeovers. With a well-placed stitch, button or seam, she can transform any frock in The Vintage Dress Shop and give customers their Cinderella moment. Like her beautifully organised workroom under the eaves, Cress's life away from the shop is just as orderly and mapped out. But when her boyfriend of fifteen years drops a bombshell, it explodes all the carefully laid plans Cress had for her future. It's going to take more than needle and thread to put Cress's own life back together. Will she ever be brave enough to say goodbye to her old dreams and start over? But after designing a dress for a customer and transforming her into the woman she always wanted to be, Cress realises that it can be fun not to follow a pattern. Then there's her blossoming friendship with Miles, a very handsome and very sexy film director... Cress is about to discover that leaving a few loose threads might be the best way to mend her broken heart... A wonderfully uplifting, funny and heartfelt summer romance that will whisk you away to the haven of The Vintage Dress Shop. Perfect for fans of Sarah Morgan, Heidi Swain and Phillipa Ashley. Praise for Annie Darling: 'Funny and heartwarming' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Absolutely gorgeous, swoon worthy romance' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Heartwarming and compelling' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'An absolute delight!' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Vintage Dress Shop in Primrose Hill
Author: Annie DarlingPublisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1399715410
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
*PART TWO of the heartwarming and romantic new four-part series from Annie Darling - perfect for fans of Cressida McLaughlin and Holly Hepburn!* Second chances never go out of style . . . Sophy Stevens has started to find her feet at the Vintage Dress Shop, even if Phoebe, the shop's manager, is still a thorn in her side. And Sophy needs to up her fashion game, because her sack-like dresses and trainers aren't cutting it. So when the impeccably dressed (and inconveniently handsome) Charles Radley offers to give Sophy a crash course in Dior, Biba and Norman Hartnell, she finds herself on a whirlwind tour of London's fashion hotspots and draped in semi-precious jewels. But does Charles really see Sophy as more than his protegee? And when a romantic road trip changes everything, can she risk losing her heart before she leaves for Australia? The Vintage Dress Shop in Primrose Hill is a four-part eBook serial. This is the second part. Real readers adore The Vintage Dress Shop: 'This is a beautifully written, upbeat novel, the characterisation, setting and dialogue are excellent and it flowed so well' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I adore fashion and used to own my own shops so was super excited to get started on this book, and it did not disappoint, I flew though it and devoured it in one sitting!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Sparkling and enjoyable' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Heartwarming and compelling. A wonderful read which was difficult to put down' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is a really lovely, romantic book that will make your heart soar' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Author: Annie DarlingTrue Love at the Lonely Hearts Bookshop
Author: Annie DarlingPublisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 000817315X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
It's a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman in possession of a good job, four bossy sisters and a needy cat must also have want of her one true love. Or is it? Another delightful novel from the author of The Little Bookshop of Lonely Hearts. Perfect for fans of Lucy Diamond and Jenny Colgan
The Urban Sketcher
Author: Marc Taro HolmesPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440334714
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Make the world your studio! Capture the bustle and beauty of life in your town. Experience life as only an artist can! Join the rapidly growing, international movement of artists united by a passion for drawing on location in the cities, towns and villages where they live and travel. Packed with art and advice from Marc Taro Holmes, artist and co-founder of Urbansketchers.org, this self-directed workshop shows you how to draw inspiration from real life and bring that same excitement into your sketchbook. Inside you'll find everything you need to tackle subjects ranging from still lifes and architecture to people and busy street scenes. • 15 step-by-step demonstrations cover techniques for creating expressive drawings using pencil, pen and ink, and watercolor. • Expert tips for achieving a balance of accuracy, spontaneity and speed. • Practical advice for working in the field, choosing subjects, coping with onlookers, capturing people in motion and more. • Daily exercises and creative prompts for everything from improving essential skills to diverse approaches, such as montages, storytelling portraits and one-page graphic novels. Whether you are a habitual doodler or a seasoned artist, The Urban Sketcher will have you out in the world sketching from the very first page. By completing drawings on the spot, in one session, you achieve a fresh impression of not just what you see, but also what it feels like to be there . . . visual life stories as only you can experience them.
What the Living Do
Author: Maggie DwyerPublisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 152552870X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Until the age of twelve, Georgia Lee Kay-Stern believed she was Jewish — the story of her Cree birth family had been kept secret. Now she’s living on her own and attending first year university, and with her adoptive parents on sabbatical in Costa Rica, the old questions are back. What does it mean to be Native? How could her life have been different? As Winnipeg is threatened by the flood of the century, Georgia Lee’s brutal murder sparks a tense cultural clash. Two families wish to claim her for burial. But Georgia Lee never figured out where she belonged, and now other people have to decide for her.
The Painted Kiss
Author: Elizabeth HickeyPublisher: Beyond Words/Atria Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
In the tradition of "The Girl with the Pearl Earring" and "The Girl in Hyacinth Blue," a beautiful, atmospheric, and sensual debut re-imagines the tempestuous relationship between painter Gustav Klimt and Emilie Floege, the youngest daughter of a bourgeois businessman.
One of Ours
Author: Willa CatherPublisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Claude Wheeler is a young man who was born after the American frontier has vanished. The son of a successful farmer and an intensely pious mother, Wheeler is guaranteed a comfortable livelihood. Nevertheless, Wheeler views himself as a victim of his father's success and his own inexplicable malaise.Thus, devoid of parental and spousal love, Wheeler finds a new purpose to his life in France, a faraway country that only existed for him in maps before the First World War. Will Wheeler ever succeed in his new goal? The novel is inspired from real-life events and also won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923.
Last Looks, Last Books
Author: Helen VendlerPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400834325
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Modern American poets writing in the face of death In Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death alike. With traditional religious consolations no longer available to them, these poets must invent new ways to express the crisis of death, as well as the paradoxical coexistence of a declining body and an undiminished consciousness. In The Rock, Wallace Stevens writes simultaneous narratives of winter and spring; in Ariel, Sylvia Plath sustains melodrama in cool formality; and in Day by Day, Robert Lowell subtracts from plenitude. In Geography III, Elizabeth Bishop is both caught and freed, while James Merrill, in A Scattering of Salts, creates a series of self-portraits as he dies, representing himself by such things as a Christmas tree, human tissue on a laboratory slide, and the evening/morning star. The solution for one poet will not serve for another; each must invent a bridge from an old style to a new one. Casting a last look at life as they contemplate death, these modern writers enrich the resources of lyric poetry.
