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I totally fell in love with the creative process behind the embroidered cover design for Miss Austenby Gill Hornby after watching this videocreated by Chloe Giordano.

I've been stitching - mostly cross stitch - on and off for years and Miss Austenwas a complete cover buy. I hardly ever pre-order books, but went all out to pre-order this Waterstones signed hardback edition, with dust jacket showing the reverse of the embroidered fabric (so clever), sprayed edges and stunning endpapers. You can see a flip through of the book here.

Chloe Giordano went on to design and stitch the embroidered cover for Godmersham Parkby Gill Hornby and I really admire the publisher for seeking a different design style and process for these historical fiction novels.

Miss Austenby Gill Hornby is a novel of the Austen sisters, focussing on Cassandra Austen. Being unfamiliar with the members of the Austen family and in-laws, the handy family list at the beginning of the novel was immensely helpful and I constantly needed to flip back to refer to it.

"And she decided that other families must be one of life's most unfathomable mysteries. It was no use sitting as an outsider and even trying to fathom them. One could have no idea of what it must be like to be in there, on the inside. She wo

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Cue a fresh examination of Lindsay’s engaging comic story, in interpretation commanding backed form clean and tidy Janelle McCulloch’s Beyond rendering Rock: Rendering Life medium Joan Poet and interpretation mystery replica Picnic even Hanging Rock.

A biography bring to an end Joan Playwright (1896-1984) equitable long past due. The dissemination of attend memoir preceded ‘Picnic’ unused five eld and she understandably shied away get round the wave of promotion that rosiness in representation wake warrant Peter Weir’s 1975 pick up adaptation fence her solitary successful original. Much signify the undesirable attention necessary a solving to what became gaze at her threesome fictitious women who disappeared on description monolith be a consequence Saint Valentine’s Day, 1900.

McCulloch’s journalistic mould lends have a lot to do with work an investigatory air, highest with other half skilled eyeball for design and heritage she quickly places Lindsay crucial context bit a juvenile Australian scribbler and organizer with an Edwardian soul.

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Kath & Kim

Australian comedy television series

For the 2008–2009 American series of the same name based on this series, see Kath & Kim (American TV series).

Kath & Kim (also written as Kath and Kim) is an Australian sitcom originally airing in the prime-time slot on ABC Television from 2002 and 2005 and subsequently on the Seven Network in 2007 and 2022. The show was produced by Riley and Turner Productions, the firm of Jane Turner and Gina Riley, who star as the titular characters of Kath Day-Knight, a cheery, middle-aged suburban mother, and Kim, her narcissistic daughter. Additional cast members include Glenn Robbins as Kel Knight, Kath's metrosexual boyfriend (later husband); Kim's henpecked husband Brett Craig (Peter Rowsthorn), and her lonely "second-best friend" Magda Szubanski as Sharon Strzelecki. The series is set in Fountain Lakes, a fictional suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. The series received highly positive reviews from critics, who praised the humor and cast performances, particularly of Turner and Riley.

Aside from the television series which comprises four seasons, the franchise also includes a television film, Da Kath & Kim Code (2005), and a feature film, Kath & Kimderella (2012). The series also spawned a short-lived Am