Barbara Kaye Bücher

This clear, handsomely illustrated guide introduces the history, materials, tools, and techniques of glass engraving and other forms of glass decorating. Techniques include diamond point, copper-wheel, and drill engraving, plus instruction in gold engraving under glass, painting glass, and applying glass to glass in creating mosaics and glass collage, fusing, and forming.

In 1938, after three years of sharing a house in London with a moody, elderly Russian who was translating Tchekhov, Barbara Kaye and her husband, Percy Muir, moved to a Tudor cottage in north-west Essex, in joyful anticipation of at last having a home to themselves. While she coped with a young daughter, domestic crises, a garden and chickens - and tried to write a novel - he commuted to London to carry on his antiquarian book business at Elkin Mathews in Duke Street. Eighteen months later, on the eve of war, the business and a member of staff joined the exodus of evacuees from London and were found house-room, along with parents and a dog, in the Muirs' draughty and already over-crowded cottage. In this entertaining and very personal sequel to Percy Muir's Minding My Own Business, Barbara Kaye describes the struggle to keep the firm of Elkin Mathews going while, at the same time the Muirs gave hospitality to an egotistical author engaged on a book on women, an eccentric poet, the originator of James Bond, and other friends who came for temporary refuge from the Blitz.

In The Company We Kept Barbara Kaye told the story of how the old established antiquarian book firm of Elkin Mathews survived the war years after evacuation to rural Essex in 1939. Now she carries on the story from 1945 to 1955, when Elkin Mathews expanded and her bibliophile husband, Percy Muir, became increasingly involved in the national and international politics of the antiquarian book trade. It was during this time that the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) was formed and the description of Percy Muir's part in this process provides a fascinating account of an historic event. Percy Muir became president of the ILAB in 1950 and on his retirement from office he was unanimously elected Life President of Honor.

Audrey Hamiltonová nemůže uniknout své minulosti. Před pěti lety byla její prominentní rodina zruinována ošklivým skandálem. Audry se snaží vybudovat si nový život, ale znovu se stává předmětem nevítané publicity. Boyd Benedict, majitel luxusního hotelu, kde pracuje, ji „ požádá“, aby se ukryla u jeho rodiny. Je to strach z novinářů nebo Boydovo kouzlo, co Audrey přinutí nabídku přijmout?

Kovboj George má nejspíš „toulavé boty“. Nic na světě jej nedokáže udržet déle na jednom místě. Ale co si má „strýček“ George počít se dvěma děvčaty, které dostal do opatrování? Snad mu v tom poradí pohledná učitelka Laurie...