Marionettes are loved by puppeteers and audiences for what they can do on stage, but they can be challenging to design, make and perform. This beautiful book clearly explains the process from making the puppets to putting them on strings and bringing them alive. Detailed step-by-step instructions are given to make three marionettes - a walking bird, a dancer and a wooden man - each using different tools and materials, with progressively more tricky techniques. Written by a leading puppeteer, it celebrates the art of the marionette.

Crime Thriller set in Spain In this second book of the Andalusian Mystery Series, four adults remain desperate to track down their former college headmaster. He abused them as teenagers, and they want justice at any price, their justice. But, after the debacle in Malaga, their numbers are dwindling. The ancient mountain city of Ronda is the home of bullfighting. At the annual Pedro Romero Festival, a famous Torero battles with the Royal Taurino Society, the supervisory body of Spain's national tradition. He wants to stop killing the brave animals, they insist on continuing with their public slaughter. But more sinister elements are manipulating their feud for their own ends. Then people start dying. Wily, veteran Detective Inspector, Leon Prado, investigates death in the afternoon.