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A menagerie of dazzling, brilliant beasts from the No.1 bestselling colouring book illustrator Millie Marotta.

Millie's Animal Kingdom offers a range of beautiful illustrations to colour in, personalise and make your own. An inspirational book for all lovers of fine illustration.

The pleasures to be had from slowing down can be many, with connections to sustainability, simplicity, reflection, and tuning into traditional and other multicultural textile traditions. Slow Stitch is a much-needed guide to adopting a less-is-more approach, valuing quality over quantity, and bringing a meaningful and thoughtful approach to textile practice. Claire Wellesley-Smith introduces a range of ways in which you can slow your textile work down, including: Using simple techniques inspired by traditional practice (including hand-stitch rhythms) Reusing and re-inventing materials (reuse even old textile projects) Limiting your equipment Mending revisited (practical and decorative techniques) Project ideas and resources that help towards making a more sustainable textile practice Richly illustrated throughout, and showcasing work from the best textile artists who work in this way, this is a truly inspirational book for those looking to reconnect with their craft and to find a new way of working.

Lose yourself in a riot of colouring in and drawing as you bring the exotic creatures and plants in Millie Marotta's Tropical Wonderland to life. This book will bring enjoyment to anyone who is looking for a creative outlet or a mindful and relaxing activity.

One of the most important chess books ever written, reissued in celebration of a chess genius, Bobby Fischer.The American takes the reader through 60 of his games, describing his thoughts, the intricacies behind his and his opponent's strategies, the tactical justification of moves and the psychological battle in each one. You'll find beautifully simple positional play next to out-of-this-world combinations that are just breathtaking. Fischer played nearly all of these games as a grandmaster so they are at the very highest level, but his lucid commentary makes every move and idea both accessible and understandable. Every player will learn huge amounts from this book. It is essential for each chess enthusiast, competitor and professional. The controversial alterations that were made to Bobby Fischer's words in the last edition have been omitted in this book, so only the author's own words are expressed, giving aa true insight into one of the most gifted, troubled and controversial minds of the 20th century.

In her latest colouring book, Millie brings you her own selection of the most amazing creatures on earth. Featuring animals from all kinds of habitat, from the depths of the sea to mountain tops and from Arctic cold to hot deserts. Remarkable birds, fish, mammals, reptiles and invertebrates are brought to life by Millie's beautiful illustrations.

Having learnt the basic moves, how exactly should a player improve? In this much loved classic, Irving Chernev explains 33 complete games in detail, telling the reader the reason for every single move.

Grab your coloured pencils - it's time for colouring wizardry! Demonstrate your house pride with a collection of artwork of characters, objects, and magical places from the Harry Potter films, all themed to house Hufflepuff.

Grab your coloured pencils - it's time for colouring wizardry! Demonstrate your house pride with artwork of characters, objects, and magical places from the Harry Potter films, all themed to house Ravenclaw.

Grab your coloured pencils - it's time for colouring wizardry! Demonstrate your house pride with artwork of characters, objects, and magical places from the Harry Potter films, all themed to house Gryffindor.

Passionate cloud spotter and bestselling author Gavin Pretor-Pinney gives you 365 clouds, one for each day, in his stunning illustrated book.

A valuable sourcebook for costume designers, dressmakers and those involved in historical reenactments, this book contains all the information you need to create authentic clothes from the Tudor period.

Lose yourself in the calming world of woodland wildlife. Whether it's statuesque pines or a steamy tropical forest, you will discover a wealth of beautiful and intriguing creatures that dwell in the world's forests - from foxes, fireflies and fallow deer to lemurs, leaf frogs and lady bugs.

An invaluable insight into the mind of today's most important chess genius, Magnus Carlsen. Andrew Soltis takes the reader through 60 of his games, describing the intricacies behind his and his opponent's strategies, the tactical justification of moves and the psychological battle in each one.

A practical guide to learn painting individual people and crowds, with simple exercises and step-by-step demonstrations.

Millie's new book whisks you away to the swaying grasslands of the savannahs, not only in Africa, but also Asia and Australia. A feast of beautiful illustration, invitingly laid out for the reader to colour in or add their own drawing.

The connection between wellbeing and textile creation is explored by Slow Stitch author Claire Wellesley-Smith, featuring international textile artists including Alice Kettle. Link your emotional health with your textile practice and make connections with others through traditional and non-traditional stitch methods and use of resonant materials.

This centuries-old Korean craft explored for modern textile artists, looking for ideas and techniques.

Artist Ann Blockley is renowned for her innovative approach to watercolour painting. Her highly-anticipated new book provides a series of workshops demonstrating how to push the boundaries of watercolour, using key techniques to develop your own work and take your paintings to the next level.

Grab your coloured pencils - it's time for colouring wizardry! Demonstrate your house pride with artwork of characters, objects, and magical places from the Harry Potter films, all themed to house Slytherin.

Acclaimed watercolour artist Ann Blockley maps her personal journey into working, playing and creating with nature. From dislodging creative blocks and drawing inspiration for your work simply by being outside to incorporating natural materials into your art and making your own inks and paper.

Bestselling artist and writer Hazel Soan has distilled her art teaching into the things that matter most and can be digested in a short period of time - in just one afternoon you can start painting. Learning to paint is one of the life-long aspirations of many of us, and these techniques can be picked up faster than you think. Hazel Soan's concise book, filled with easy-to-follow instructions and step-by- step exercises, is written in an accessible way for those completely new to painting. Chapters include: Getting Started (the materials you will need and those you can ignore in the art shop); Choice of Colours; Mixing Colours; What's the Subject?; What Surfaces to Paint on; Basic Painting Techniques; Brushstrokes and Composition (with details on how to design paintings with horizon, focus and balance, a hint of perspective and the light and shade of a subject). Packed with illustrations for guidance, this is the most comprehensive guide to learning watercolour very quickly.

Locations from film, tv, literature, myths, comics and video games are plotted in a series of beautiful vintage-looking maps with fascinating stories of how authors and writers picked these places.

An International Master's guide to essential tactical strategies and positions in chess. The perfect guide for players who want to reach a higher level but don't have time to spend hours every week on less productive study.

Explore the basics of watercolour landscapes with lots of simple exercises and step-by-step demonstrations that are perfect for any beginner. That lifelong ambition of painting somewhere that is important to you can become a possibility with the help of this nifty little book.

A wonderful portable edition of the hugely popular and Sunday Times bestseller Millie Marotta's Animal Kingdom.

A practical art book for painters who want to experiment with mixed media and make their landscape paintings more adventurous. Popular artist and teacher, Soraya French, presents simple projects and step-by-step exercises to help you along the way.

The events of your life, from local walks to exotic trips, can provide endless inspiration for textile art. This inspiring book shows you how to record your experiences, using sketchbooks, journals and photography, to create personal narratives that can form a starting point for more finished stitched-textile pieces. Acclaimed textile artist and teacher Cas Holmes, whose work is often inspired by her life and the journeys she makes, helps you find inspiration through your own life and explains how to record what you see in sketchbooks and journals, which can often become beautiful objects in themselves. She explains how you can use photography, both as documentation and as inspiration, and sometimes incorporate it into the work itself, along with found objects and ephemera. Throughout the book are useful techniques that can be harnessed to add extra interest to your work, such as methods for making layered collages, how to 'sketch' with stitch, and advice on design and colour. If you want to create beautiful, unique work inspired by your life and travels, this is the perfect book for you.

A brand new colouring collection from number 1 bestselling illustrator Millie Marotta, exploring wildlife conversation - a subject very close to her heart.This gorgeous book features 90 amazing animals from around the world to colour, with a focus on endangered and vulnerable species. Containing a rich mix of wildlife from the much-loved snow leopard to the the adorable axolotl, from the vibrant ladybird spider to Attenborough's long-beaked echidna, it's a celebration of creatures that are currently at risk but that humanity is making efforts to save.Use your pencils or pens to bring colourful life to a wealth of wonderful animals, all rendered in Millie's beautifully intricate style, including:¿ Big beasts like the Javan rhino, the wild camel and the elusive mountain gorilla.¿ Treasures of the sea: the humphead wrasse, the mini blue bee shrimp and the majestic blue whale.¿ The insects that pollinate our world: many different bumblebee species, the monarch butterfly.¿ 'Lazarus species', thought to be extinct but now discovered in the world, such as the coelacanth and the New Caledonian crested gecko, and a few long-extinct and near-mythological animals - the woolly mammoth and the sabre-toothed tiger.Printed on high-quality paper with minimal show-through, suitable for all sorts of colouring media, this is a glorious treasury of the animals we don't want to lose.