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The next David Bailey?  

Kim Gilmour's DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY FOR THE OLDER AND WISER is out now! Readers will learn how to use and take professional snaps using digital technology. There will also be special attention given to uploading photographs onto social network sites as well. A perfect book for your parents or grandparents. 

Publication date: 22 January 2010 (John Wiley). 

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The Magic Of Angels: How To Recognise and Harness Your Own Angelic Powers 

QUESTION: What do Noel Edmunds, Toyah Wilcox, Hilary Clinton, Juliet Mills, Eva Longoria, Carlos Santana, Shirley Maclaine and Cerys Matthews all have in common? 

ANSWER:  They all believe in angels. And for them, this is a belief borne from a direct personal experience of angelic energy.

Even if you haven’t yet had this experience, it doesn’t matter; you can still tap into powerful angelic energies. This book shows you how – whether you believe in Angels or not!

John Blake will be publishing THE MAGIC OF ANGELS – HOW TO RECOGNISE AND HARNESS YOUR OWN ANGELIC POWERS by Adele Nozedar.

Publication date: March 2010 (John Blake). 

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Beautiful Fairies
 

With imagination and flair, Fiona McDonald shows you how to knit a fantastic range of fairy folk in a range of sizes. Using a basic body pattern, she clothes the winged creatures in many different ways, creating fun figures for every fairy occasion.

KNITTED FAIRIES publication date: 10 April 2010 (Search Press). 

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Sex, Drugs and Bigamy

Clare Gee’s fictionalised memoir, HOOKED, has been picked up by Mainstream Publishing. The book is set in London during the 90s and early 2000s and is filled with explicit depictions of the naughty antics that go on in so-called private members’ clubs in the Capital: drugs, sex, prostitution and lots and lots of booze and let’s not forget the very real aftermath of excessive indulgence.

Nothing is held back. HOOKED is a brutal and graphic account of what it really is like being a prostitute and the emotional collapse that can ensue when someone chases happiness in all the wrong places.

Publication date: May 2010 (Mainstream Publishing)

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Babes in the Wool: How to Knit Beautiful Fashion Dolls, Clothes and Accessories

Fiona McDonald’s exciting craft book, BABES IN THE WOOL, will be published by Search Press. This is a seriously fashionable doll making book – with the dolls giving Kate Moss serious competition for her fashion crown. 

Fiona McDonald is a classically trained artist whose passion for toys manifests itself in the compulsive making of dolls and puppets. Her life size cloth and mixed media figures have received international acclaim and are eagerly sought after by collectors. 

Publication date: 1 May 2010 (Search Press)

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Take us to your leader...
 

Aliens have landed and have made contact at last! Twenty lifeforms from distant planets have come to Earth to make new friends and learn about humans, and this book shows you how to knit twenty of these friendly creatures.

These are close encounters of the knitted kind. Fiona McDonald's instructions make knitting twenty adorable aliens easy and fun, so blast off and have an adventure with these charming characters.
Twenty designs and twenty alternatives. A perfect  gift.

KNITTED ALIENS publication date: 3 June 2010 (Search Press). 

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Bompas & Parr seal jelly deal  

Wibble wobble jelly on a plate. Bompas & Parr have just delivered their first book to Pavilion (Anova). These young Old Etonians will see their book JELLY WITH BOMPAS AND PARR published June 2010. Expect lots of media coverage and some fun things with jelly.

Anova’s brilliant commissioning editor, Emily Preece-Morrison, says of the title: "Jelly is wobbling back into fashion and Bompas & Parr are an exciting, inventive young team with visually spectacular ideas, so we are thrilled to be creating the ultimate jelly book with them. This book will be the definitive guide to this historical food, filled with
beautifully illustrated recipes and will convey just how much joy there is to be had from making jellies."

"Giving Heston Blumenthal a run for his money" - INDEPENDENT

"If you're going to do silly, do it in style" - THE TIMES

Publication date: June 2010 (Pavilion, Anova)

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Help for achy joints   

Dr Keith Souter, has delivered his first book to Sheldon Press. SELF-HELP FOR RHEUMATISM AND ARTHRITIS is a much needed book and we are positive this will help the millions of suffers out there. Keith is a prolifically published writer both in non-fiction and fiction and we are glad to have him as part of the Creative Authors list. 

Publication date: July 2010 (Sheldon)

Rainbow Families

Nicola Hill, author of A VERY PINK WEDDING: A GAY GUIDE TO PLANNING YOUR WEDDING (HarperCollins, 2007) has followed up with THE PINK GUIDE TO GAY ADOPTION (BAFF (The British Association for Adoption and Fostering) May 2009).
This is a landmark book and actually features interviews with same sex couples, who have adopted. The book is now out and has been attracting a lot of press attention.

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Putting the punk into fiction

We are delighted to announce the publication of PUNK FICTION edited by Janine Bullman and with a foreword from legendary guitarist Johnny Marr. The book will be published by Portico and is a tie-in with Teenage Cancer Trust. PUNK FICTION is an anthology of short stories inspired by Punk. The idea came from Janine Bullman, a music PR at dynamic and newly established Notorious PR (www.notoriouspr.com), whose list of clients include Johnny Marr, Bloc Party and The Rakes to name a few. Janine will be editing and contributing a story to the anthology.

Contributors mainly writers and musicians, have been hand-picked from the generations following the Punk revolution; those who were positively influenced by the movement rather than those who played an active part in making it happen.

Their instructions were simple - pick a song that inspires you and write. There are over 30 stories in the anthology and will feature stories by:

Kele Okereke, John Niven, Paul Smith (Maximo Park), David Gaffney, Max Decharne, Kate Jackson (The Long Blondes), Billy Childish, Salena Godden, Laura Oldfield Ford, Joe Stretch, Krissi Murisson (NME ), Stewart Home, Kate Pullinger, Peter Wild, Nicholas Hogg, Joolz Denby, Lydia Lunch, Alison Mosshart (The Kills), Ed Larrikin (Larrikin Love / The Pan I Am), Devonte Hynes (Lightspeed Champion), Laura Barton (Guardian) and a foreword by the legendary Johnny Marr.

Teenage Cancer Trust will receive £1 from every copy sold. The book will coincide with Teenage Cancer Trust’s charity concerts at The Royal Albert Hall in April 2009. We hope PUNK FICTION makes a big splash and will bring some much needed attention to teenage sufferers.

"The standard is, at times, superlative – Janine Bullman ...write[s] with gut-churning incision and emotional rawness." Pat Gilbert, MOJO

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