'Organic Crops for Pots and Small Plots', this beautiful large hardback tome has a foreword by Raymond Blanc. A new generation of gardeners are hungry for the know-how to transform their balconies, front doorsteps and back gardens into spaces to grow edibles. Anna Greenland, rising star of the organic grow-your-own scene, offers the jargon free inspiration, information and confidence to get you going from scratch. She has selected her Top 30 crops which are not only straightforward to grow, but also yield vegetables, herbs, fruits and edible flowers. Chapters cover Windowsills, Pots, Raised Beds, How to Grow, Troubleshooting, A Year-Round Planner, Crop Plans for Two Raised Beds, and the Top 30 and the Jargon Busting section. Alpine strawberries, a recipe for Rose Geranium Syrup which is delicious with Gin, Vodka or drizzled over ice cream, Rhubarb Shrub, Pickled Nasturtium Seeds or Butter, Coconut Calendula Salve for soothing stings and burns, all about apples, sage, parsley, chervil and chives, Gardener's Delight tomatoes on the vine, summer garden salads, French and runner beans, potatoes, chard, carrots and more. There is a monthly planner showing tasks and planting times for key crops, and compost recipes, weeding and feeding. A big glamorous handbook packed with colour photographs, 224pp.

Cat's Cradle, Soaring Bird, the Tiger Whiskers that honour your intuition or the two-person sequence of practicing mindfulness with a friend, these ten mindful string games offer you a new sense of inner peace. Includes a tiny instruction book and a golden string is included in the box with a sliding drawer.

Competently charting the development of riddles, crosswords and logic problems from the Sphinx to Sudoku, mathematician William Hartston offers examples to illustrate each great leap forward in the history of brainteasing. By selecting some of the most challenging satisfying or simply humorous of puzzles throughout the ages, chapters cover Primeval Puzzles, Medieval Maths, Mysteries and Merriment, Parisian Perplexities, Problems and Posers, The Great Victorian Puzzlers, Weights, Measures and Speed, Psychological Puzzles and The Most Baffling Logic of All. 152pp, diagrams.

The former Somerset and England cricketer Vic Marks played in six Tests and 34 one-day internationals and was the Cricket Correspondent for the Observer for 31 years and ended up fulfilling that role for the Guardian as well. In amongst his artfully delivered stock ball, enough deliveries grip to keep the pages turning in this literary equivalent to an afternoon in the sun at a county out ground hearing the sound of a cricket ball hitting the willow. In his book, Vic Marks takes us beyond the boundary rope and shares the parts of the game that fans don't get to see from the food served at lunchtime (then sweaty ham, now quinoa, cranberry and feta salad), to the politics of the dressing room. Whether revisiting his playing days to reveal the secrets of bowling a killer spell and what it feels like to be heckled by a riled-up crowd, or ruminating on the current state of the game (don't mention The Hundred!), here are the charms, quirks and peculiar allure of cricket, a game still very much alive today and all from the authoritative voice heard on TMS. 282pp, paperback.

Go Fish is a super fun game for ages four to adult and 2-6 players which doesn't take long to learn. Focus on getting four-of -a-kind matches so you can be the first one to lay down all your cards. Spread the cards out face down in the middle of the table to create the fishing pond and make sure all of them stay down so that no one can peek! Start your turn by asking one player if they have a specific card. In a lovely metal tin with Go Fetch printed on it with a rather special pack of pups - Duchess the bulldog, Comet the collie, Saltine the black labrador and Sneakers which could be a whippet but looks more like a kangaroo! Beautiful artwork, this will be a family favourite.

Welcome to Trotters Independent Trading Company! The world's favourite family board game brings you from Paris to New York to Peckham in this exciting edition of Only Fools and Horses Monopoly. Choose your favourite bespoke token playing piece, tour your favourite Only Fools' episodes and become the best trader in South London. Advance to Miami Twice, Miracle of Peckham, or even Heroes and Villains - will you owe rent or reap the rewards? Build your bespoke houses and hotels and trade your way to success. The Fast-Dealing Property Trading Game is fun for the whole family. Relive your favourite moments as Britain's best loved sitcom comes to life as we travel in the footsteps of Del, Rodney and Uncle Albert. Move from series to series, remembering their services as chandelier cleaners, Del misjudging the bar in Yuppie Love and the boys attempting to sell bottled water as Peckham Spring Water - and not forgetting Christmas adventures and when they finally make their millions when they discover the 1774 Harrison watch. With bespoke token playing pieces including of course the three wheeler but not in yellow as all six tokens are silver. Cushty! Set comprises board game, 28 title deed cards, 16 chance cards, 16 community chest cards, one pack of monopoly money, 32 tower blocks, 12 pubs, two dice and instructions together with the six silver board game pieces. Lovely jubbly! Number of players: 2+, boxed 67.8 x 40cm.

Your starter for ten: I need a single-word name here. Thought to have been invented at the French Court in the 17th century, which woodwind instrument has a double-reed mouthpiece and derives its name from the French for 'high wood'? 'The Dry Garden' and 'The Damp Garden' are books by which pioneering garden designer and writer? The winner of ten successive gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show for the 1970s, she died in 2018, aged 94. The work of the Scottish engineer William Roy played a prominent part in the founding of which government agency in 1791? Its two-word name includes a term for military stores or artillery. Over 400 pages of trivia, behind-the-scenes detail, and a raft of questions to test your knowledge. Where Are They Now? features reveal what notable contestants went on to achieve. Since 1962, University Challenge has brought TV viewing the most taxing questions on television and now you can relive some of its most gripping moments as well as test your own quizzing ability with this unique book. Nearly 3,000 questions including complete sets of questions from iconic episodes, interviews with question setters, famous contestants and producers, whether it is Wolfson Cambridge versus Balliol Oxford 2017 or Reading versus Imperial College London 2022. Complete with answers, thankfully. 408pp, colour photos from the TV show.

Beautiful dark marine blue foil pages with big white perforated press-out pieces of seahorses, shells, the narwhal with his tusk, a beautiful mermaid, a crab, fish with their fins, jellyfish, a sea turtle, a lobster, an anchor, a starfish, and beautiful twisted shells. Let your imagination make a splash with narwhals, mermaids and much more. Create your own decorations and colour them in and make a cool collection of ornaments. Press out each piece, colour it in, slot together and make sparkling decorations and use the pages to store the pieces or add stencils to create your own design. Hang as mobiles or for any number of craft projects. Spiral bound, colour.

Four salty seadog pirates, one with a spade, one with a hooked hand, one with a pegleg and one looking out to sea and all wearing big boots with turnups are four of the eight puppet characters in the box set. The other four are pirate flags, a sailing ship and an eagle. Each of the puppets are on sticks and the accompanying sheet of paper gives a few tips on how to start telling stories with your puppets whether they are in the middle of the woods, out at sea, their motive to find hidden treasure and what unexpected occurrence could change their plans. Plus how you will end your story whether they remain friends or are now deadly enemies! The brief history of shadow puppets explains that they were used as long ago as 2,000 years in China and it is believed that French missionaries brought the artform from China to Europe in the 1760s. India and many southeast Asian countries still have their own traditions of shadow puppetry today, often accompanied by dramatic music to enhance the story. For ages 3+, let your imagination go wild.
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A watercolour art pad with outlines of 15 plants like the nasturtium, rose, tree peony, gourd flower, passionflower, foxglove, star anise to an apple on a branch, create beautiful botanical artworks and enjoy the relaxing practice of watercolour painting. These 15 original paintings have been reproduced as outlines on high quality art paper which may be torn out as you refer to the original colour artwork in the book with recommended colour palettes in the Gallery. The key to the colour numbers can be found in the Plant Painter's Tool Kit and follow the guidance from the artist at the front of the book. Perfect for absolute beginners or anyone wishing to start a new hobby or refresh their skills, or simply appreciate the beauty of nature. 56 pages in large softback, 21.21 x 29.7cm. Colour.