Brocket, Jane: - Jane Brocket is the author of
The Gentle Art of Domesticity (2007) and
The Gentle Art of Quiltmaking (2010) and of two books based on the wonderful things characters eat and do in classic children's books:
Cherry Cake and Ginger Beer (2008) and
Ripping Things to Do (2009)--a selection of the pieces in these two books has been collected into one volume for the US as
Turkish Delight and Treasure Hunts (Perigee, 2010). She is currently writing a series of four Clever Concepts books for Millbrook Press. She has a knitting book to be published in 2011 and two more craft books in the pipeline.
Jane enjoys knitting, quilting, sewing, baking, growing flowers, and taking photographs of the things she makes as well as details of the world around her. She loves color, pattern, texture, shapes, and objects. And, above all, she love books and reading.