Books published by GMC Publications

The makes in Mini Makers are designed to encourage the parent and child to craft together, with the adult typically creating the basic structure and the child decorating and personalizing to create the finished product. Clear step-by-step pictures guide you through how to do each one from scratch.

Making pom poms is fantastic fun for all the family and these wonderfully easy pom-pom projects are sure to brighten up your day. Ideal to make as gifts for young and old alike, you can choose from 17 projects. The book includes clear step-by-step instructions and a fully illustrated techniques section.

These ten adorable crocheted chums have enviable wardrobes to mix and match. The five pairs of animals rabbits, mice, cats, foxes and bears - all have distinctive personalities and gorgeous outfits. All the clothes can fit all of the animals, so there is lots of fun to be had dressing them up.

Handmade bags are a great way to accessorise and express your individual style. They also make unique gifts for family and friends. This fantastic collection of bags features a range of styles and designs, showing you how to create 20 affordable, designer quality bags from the comfort of your own home.

If you have some woodturning experience, new you can create something truly special for family and friends. These beautiful hand-crafted toys are as enjoyable to make as they are to play with. Projects are a mixture of pure turned ones and also basic constructs, whereby turned items may be cut apart and resection to create something different.

This book describes 50 of the world's most important woods for turning and goes into great detail with regard to physical characteristics, working qualities and availability. Colour photographs throughout illustrate different qualities of grain and figure. An additional 100 woods are considered more briefly.

The Canon Rebel T6/EOS 1300D is a mid-range SLR for enthusiast photographers. This is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide. Author David Taylor provides practical tips on how to get the best from this practical camera.

Join the latest craze - creating fantastic fashion accessories using paracord rope! This exciting book contains step by step instructions with accompanying photographs for creating over 30 different projects. The basic techniques on how to create a braiding board are explained in detail as well as adjusting length for items such as bracelets.

Woodburning stoves have become incredibly popular. Not only do woodburners save money on fuel, they're a carbon-neutral way to heat your home. This collection of basic information will guide you through everything you need to know, from choosing the most suitable stove for your needs to installing and operating one efficiently and safely.

Grab your yarn and knitting needles and delve into this wonderful book from best-selling author, Sarah Keen. Sarah shows readers how to make adorable topsy-turvy knitted dolls based on well-known and loved characters from fairy tales and nursery rhymes.

Many people know that Claude Monet was a founder of French Impressionism, a master of landscape painting whose works include Sunrise and Water Lilies. Biographic: Monet presents an instant impression of his life, work and fame, with an array of irresistible facts and figures convered into infographics to reveal the artist behind the pictures.

Vincent van Gogh was a 19th-century Dutch artist, a leading light of the Post-Impressionist movement who painted 'Sunflowers' and cut off his own ear. Biographic: Van Gogh presents an instant impression of his life and work, with an array of irresistible facts and figures converted into infographics to reveal the artist behind the pictures.

Photo-Graphics: Exposure looks behind the lens at the science of light, colour and lenses, and then applies this to the practical matters of such essentials as shutter speed, aperture, ISO, depth of field, metering, movement, histograms, exposure adjustment, and dynamic range.

A guide to maintaining and altering your clothes, this book takes you through ten tailoring techniques, covering everything from replacing buttons to changing a garment's shape. If you're looking for better fitting clothes or simply to prolong the life of your garments, this book will show you how with easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions.

If you have an aspiring knight, whose dream would be to don sword, shield, helmet, and gauntlets to slay a dragon, then this is the craft book for you. With 15 heroic and daring projects, even the most reluctant of crafters will be keen to get stuck in. Also with ideas on cake and nibbles for a medieval banquet.

Inside this fun, colourful book there are 12 aquatic friends from all over the world to choose from, each with a very distinct personality. The projects vary in level of complexity and there is a comprehensive and straightforward techniques section to help learn the necessary skills.

This is a comprehensive step-by-step guide to the Nikon D5500 that includes a pull-out reference card. Nikon's D5500 DSLR is an update to the popular D5300, featuring a touch-sensitive rear LCD screen and improved ergonomics. In almost every other respect, it's a compact, lightweight 24MP entry-level DSLR similar to its predecessor.

Features a letter-carving expert who shares his techniques for carving letters on wood and Portland stone. Suitable for beginner and intermediate wood carvers with an interest in lettering, this title features step-by-step projects. It includes: cutting board, house sign, garden bench, picture frame, and, church plaque.

The art of handcrafted stringing and linking jewelry is a fun and accessible way to create a range of stunning pieces from the comfort of your home. In this guide, there are 30 main projects, each with extra projects to complete a set or to complement the main design. It also offers a wealth of advice on tools, materials and techniques.

The art of handcrafted wirework jewelry is a fun and accessible way to create a range of stunning pieces from the comfort of your home. Whether you are looking to make jewelry for yourself, or as unique gifts for special occasions, this title features 30 main projects, each with extra projects to complete a set or to complement the main design.

Accompany woodsman Ben Law as he celebrates the amazing diversity of craft products made from materials sourced directly from the woods. With fascinating information on the history, language and traditions of the crafts, coppice management and tree species, this book teaches about all aspects of the low-impact woodland way of life.

The Canon Rebel T6s/EOS 760D is the new flagship model for the company's line of interchangeable-lens DSLR cameras, which inherits a broad range of features from the mid-range EOS 70D. This comprehensive, step-by-step guide will help you get the most out of these cameras.

Press photography is not just a career - it's a way of life - and photojournalists have a ringside seat on contemporary history. Written by an expert in the field, the core skills of the working photographer are detailed, with reference to areas of speciality in news, fashion, royalty, advertising, sport, war photography, and social history issues.