Bøger af Stephanie Zia

A nifty and comprehensive guide to easily removing stains around the home.

The golden rule is: if you think it, and believe it, it will happen... Anything is possible in The Dream Theatre. It's a place where dreams are played out like pictures on the television; a place that can be everything from wonderful to scary to downright weird. And you don't need to be asleep to explore it. Jamie Ellis and his best friend Martha make this incredible discovery when Martha's dog Pip leads them into The Dream Theatre then disappears. Desperate to find him Jamie and Martha search the dream world, visiting places and seeing things they never thought possible. But when they eventually find him they face an even more puzzling problem. What is the strange, unending dream Pip seems to be guarding, and why won't he leave? The answer means a race against time to help a friend in trouble and Jamie coming face-to-face with his worst nightmare. Packed with laughs, surprises, explosions plus a mystery and a loveable, clever dog, The Dream Theatre is a highly original contemporary fantasy adventure story that will appeal to boys, girls and adults alike.

Throughout the 1980s and 90s, Tim Salmon was the author of The Rough Guide to France, the renowned travel bible of France for the independent, savvy traveller. For 15 years, as he travelled the length and breadth of the country, the idea for his own, personal journey gradually took shape. It would be nothing to do with cathedrals and history and railway timetables but a subjective, intimate look at the country he had been married to and grown to love and know so well. It would be a slow journey on foot, but he couldn't decide on a route, until, one day, he came across an article about the old Paris meridian line. Renamed La Méridienne Verte for France's millennium celebrations, it runs from the North Sea at Dunkerque to the Spanish border. That's it, he thought: there's the route, a virtual line from nowhere in particular to nowhere in particular, passing, with the exception of Paris, through nowhere in particular. It would bring what it brought. He would see what he saw. This book is the diary of that walk. An intimate and charming day by day account of what he saw, heard, thought: landscapes, flower girls, snippets of history, curious encounters and lots of birdsong.

A collection of extracts from the books of the popular travel writer on France Susie Kelly. In 'Travels With Tinkerbelle, 6,000 Miles Around France In A Mechanical Wreck' the author and her husband devised a simple plan - to take a tent and the dog and drive around the perimeter of France. Like many simple plans it went wrong before it started... In Best Foot Forward, A 500 Mile Walk Through Hidden France, Susie walks solo from La Rochelle to Lake Geneva with a tent on her back whilst her Texan friend Jennifer struggles by on her first ever trip to France, looking after Susie's smallholding and caring for a menagerie of animals. In The Valley Of Heaven and Hell - Cycling In The Shadow of Marie Antoinette, novice cyclist Susie dons unflattering lycra to cycle the little-known Marne Valley and Champagne regions of France. She takes the identical route taken by Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI when they tried to escape from the Revolution, and their journey back to their executions. In Swallows & Robins, The Guests In My Garden, Susie stays at home for a change. As the world's worst housekeeper, running holiday homes wasn't, with hindsight, a sensible idea. But two collapsing buildings on her land would cost more to demolish than to restore. Thus she became a seasonal landlady and, along with the assorted guests, came Ivy into her life, The Cleaning Lady From Hell. In her memoir, I Wish I Could Say I Was Sorry..., the setting moves away from French travel to a childhood in 1950s/60s Africa. With uncompromising honesty and hints of her usual humour, Susie describes emigrating, from post-war London in every shade of grey to the technicolour splendour of Kenya, as part of a dysfunctional family. A US Amazon Paid Top 100 bestseller.

Keep your home healthy and save a fortuneFilter out the wrong advice: What really works? What doesn't? What's safe? What isn't?As the Cleaning Guru for The Guardian's Weekend Magazine for many years, Stephanie helped hundreds of readers solve their impossible stains and household cleaning catastrophes the healthy, non-toxic way.

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