Jane Waller

When Wendy Midwinter’s grandfather is on his deathbed, he tells her he has been the guardian of a tome for a very long time, one that has all the weather inside it. As his last request, he asks her to take it to Mr Allbright, the new chief weatherman at the Exeter Weather Station. Wendy finds the book as he requested, and the next day, she and her friend Raine take it with them to the Weather Exhibition at the Exeter Station. The exhibition is packed, however, so the two girls go up to the roof—where Wendy is suddenly snatched away by a tornado! She finds herself whisked away to Heligoland, a cloud castle situated at the heart of a low pressure front barely rising above the Irish Sea and the home of the Foul Weather-Makers. Imprisoned in the dungeons there by German Bight, the castle genius, Wendy must find her way home in order to warn people about the urgent changes needed to save the planet. In this novel, a girl comes into possession of a magical tome that grants the power to create extreme weather and ends up in the middle of a war over weather and climate change.

Weather or Not

Susan Crawford

Stitch In Time

Strikke- og hækleopskrifter på vintagetøj til kvinder med opskrifterne i både original udgave og opdateret udgave

Vintage Knitting & Crochet Patterns 1920-1949

A Stitch in Time

This breathtaking book takes us on a journey through knitting pattern history from 1930 to 1959. This treasury contains 75 patterns for women-the best of period design with a balanced selection of projects from beginner to advanced; cardigans to hats; stocking stitch to cable, lace and Fair Isle.

Vintage Knitting Patterns 1930-1959

In Me Jane, author Jane Waller presents an unusual account of childhood in 1950s England. Using first her mother's diaries and later her own, she evokes clear memories of those far-off days, so different from now. She explores the thoughts and feelings of a child living in the countryside, beginning at age four. Waller was then sent to a rather demanding boarding school in Surrey (complete with mad matron and flasher). Her recollections take her through her teenage years, including a desperate search for a boyfriend, until, at seventeen, she becomes a beatnik and heads off to study art in Oxford. Waller also tells how those in power-a subject not taught in schools-deprived Aylesbury of a beautiful Georgian house and grounds that had taken the family seven years to completely restore, but that were subsequently destroyed by a road-widening scheme, an event that broke apart the marriage of her parents. Poignant and personal, this memoir presents a story of childhood in the UK in the mid-twentieth century and the shifts that altered her and her family forever.

Jane Waller

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