Birds, bees and a whole host of other flora and fauna that share Villager Jim's garden in the tiny Peak District village of Foolow are featured in his book of stunning colour photographs of the regular visitors to his garden. There are birds and deer and a dove in a bed of crocuses, frogs in a spring pond, close-ups of bees and bird chicks and jenny wren and a close up of a starling where all the dots are tiny heart shapes on his chest. Dierdre the bluetit pops by and lands on his mug, a goose waddles in, a mother duck and her tribe paddle off for a morning dip in the pond, dragonflies mate, Georgy flies into Jim's hand to collect mealworms, a tawny owl hides up a tree and the many birds fly onto the garden table to be photographed in close up by this genius nature lover. And there are rats and hares and cockerels and of the course the beloved Bobbin the robin and all manner of frozen chickens waddling about in the snow. 128pp. 24.8 x 17.8cm, full page colour photos throughout.

What could be more satisfying than making your own furniture and the sheer pleasure of using hand tools to cut a beautiful piece of wood with the saw, chisel or plane? Learn how the wood responds and become capable of reading the grain and find yourself seeing, imagining and feeling what will happen with each cut. Whether hard, soft, green or seasoned, choose the right wood from oak, ash, cedar, elm, tulip wood, Douglas fir, walnut and how knots make the wood trickier to use. This wonderfully practical book is aimed at anyone looking to balance their busy lives by mastering core woodworking skills. Build your skills and your tool kit as you progress through the five step-by-step projects - a work bench, hook, box, decorative shelf and chest. Learn about drilling and joining with screws, measuring and marking and getting things square, using the drill, marking up brackets, cleaning with herbs, using dowels, making the pegs and locking the surfaces together with joints, all explained in wonderful colour photographic sequences. 128 page extra large sized softback, packed with colour photos.

'Fizzing with fruity stories and yeasty historical tales' - Alice Roberts, the sub-title of the book is 'How an Ancient Craft Became a Way of Life' and the book is enormously fun and a BBC Radio Four Food Programme Book of the Year. Join James Crowden as he embarks on a journey to distil the ancient origins of cider, uncovering a rich culture and philosophy that has united farmer, maker and drinker for millennia. It has been at the heart of country life for hundreds of years, but the fascinating story of how this drink came into existence and why it became so deeply rooted in the nation's psyche has never been told. Crowden traces an elusive history stretching back to the ancient, myth-infused civilisations of the Mediterranean and the wild apple forests of Kazakhstan. He meets cider experts, farmers and historians and we read about monks, pirates and politicians who formed a pioneering and evangelical fan base. The nation's love affair with cider didn't fully blossom until after the Reformation when the thirst for knowledge about the drink was at its peak. This infatuation with the experimentation would lead to remarkable innovations and the creation of a 'sparkling cider', a technique that predated Dom Pérignon's Champagne by 40 years. And today Crowden meets the next generation of cider makers and unearths a unique philosophy that has been shared through the ages and new ways to produce this golden drink enjoyed by so many. It is a story of our country through the culture, craft and consumption of our most iconic rural drink. 448 pages, paperback with fairly large print and illus.

When I grow up I will stand TALL and as you open the pages the 3D fantastic paper engineering shows a huge white fir tree rising to the sky. When I strive for my goals I will savour the outcome. When I share my dreams we will fly together as a flock of white birds literally leap from the page. When I dream of the future I will dream big as the huge sailing ship with six sails and two decks lifts from the grey lilac and pale green background. When I build my life I will reach high - and a huge castle with church-like and crenelated turrets appears before your eyes. From a humble beginning to a life among the stars - the space rocket takes off from the puffy white clouds on the final page of this most imaginative pop-up book by the world acclaimed paper engineer Robert Sabuda. A book to inspire you to reach for the stars and a special gift book for the star in your life. Colour.
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Between 80 and 87 Cryptic clues across and down and the same number of quick clues for the same grid, the choice is yours across all 100 giant sized crosswords, one per right hand page in this extra large softback. A cracking collection of super-sized grids from the Daily Mail Saturday newspaper, how you solve the puzzle is up to you, whether you choose a relaxed approach or race for results. A perfect test of your vocabulary and mental agility, the book is discounted for the first time. Paperback.

'Your Guide to a Happy, Well-Behaved Dog' is the sub-title of a book by a man who has worked with hundreds of clients and their dogs all over Britain and Europe covering a wide spectrum of behaviours from many breeds and difficult situations with varied attitudes from the owners. You will be amazed at how simple and effective Nigel's methods are and every dog owner will want to reach a greater understanding with their dog. Every dog desperately wants to be understood by their human family so that they are able to relax and enjoy their life. Dogs which exhibit a wide range of behavioural problems from pulling on the lead and not listening when called to aggression and nervousness put the human dog relationship under strain. The book is a narrative that reveals the key principals to securing your dog's wellbeing. One side relies on stimulus response training and the other school of thought believes that an understanding of wolf behaviour is critical to understanding a dog's motivation. Once your dog can assess your reactions and trust your decisions, it is reassured about the world around it and your dog's confidence will grow in every situation. We look at techniques to reduce your dog's state of anxiety if it does arise, to reinforce your position as an effective decision maker, and teach your dog self control. This means we need to examine leadership style, management of situations and mindset. The book covers training models, language, issues with food, perceived dangers, dogs that do not get on with each other, attention-seeking behaviours, rough play, separation anxiety, the walk on lead and off lead, obsessive behaviours, toilet issues, children and puppies and managing other people. Packed with new and vital information no matter what age, breed or history of dog. 227pp, paperback.

Beginning with Herodotus's 5th century BC observations of these massive monuments to Napoleon, soldiers, pioneers and adventurers, the scientific era, the cemetery complex, thesis, hypothesis and realities, Corteggiani leads the reader through the history of the Pyramids. He includes recent investigations by Egyptologists Gilles Dormion and Jean-Yeves Verd'hurt into a previously undiscovered room of the Great Pyramid. With remarkable images of early discoveries, a plan of the triangulation of the survey of 1881 of the Pyramids and Temples of Giza, chambers barely more than a metre high bearing graffiti, rare photographs in both colour and black and white and diagrams in this extremely well illustrated series. 128pp, paperback, colour.

Published in association with The National Gallery, we explore the world's greatest artists in 100 visually stunning puzzles. We zoom in on focal points of famous paintings by Degas like Combing the Hair, match the missing grid, find the twins, work out which is a fake or fortune. Many jigsaws have missing pieces where two small squares have been removed from a painting and five duplicates made of each of them. Can you identify which is correct? Discover little known facts about masterpieces like Canaletto's Venice: The Grand Canal and the quality and level of light in Rembrandt's Self Portrait at the age of 34 and the graceful postures of the figures in Piero della Francesca's The Baptism of Christ and the glowing skin with pallor perfection and blushing pink at points of Velázquez's naked woman in The Toilet of Venus. There are quizzes by century, several versions of artworks, but are they by the same artist? Answer which artworks founded or is the exemplar of a new artistic school, which artworks show an imaginary location or a fictitious one, which artworks are considered worthless and which artworks were previously owned by another well known artist, which are by women or created by a high-ranking aristocrat and which artworks show a location that still looks the same today? Constable's The Hay Wain or Millet's The Church at Arbonne? Mythic, cryptic, obscure, with answers at the back, a very glamorous 240 page large paperback, hundreds of colour illus.

The archaeologist author together with Christiane Eluère takes us back beyond the borders of history. Achilles, Odysseus and other heroes of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey fought with shields and swords of bronze. What was the world like in those mythic days when the rival Greek cities of Troy and Mycenae battled for supremacy, and far to the West unknown engineers raised the megaliths of Stonehenge? We read about Achilles, armed for battle raging at the Trojans. 'First he placed along his legs the fair greaves linked with silver fastenings to hold the greaves at the ankles. Afterward he girt about his chest the corselet, and across his shoulders slung the sword with the nails of silver, a bronze sword, and caught up in the great shield, huge and heavy nets, and from it the light glimmered far, as far from the Moon... Next he pulled out from its standing place the spear of his father...' But what do we know of even earlier times when the settled peoples of Europe first replaced their crude stone tools with those made of refined metal, and crafted ornaments of beaten copper and gold? Chapters cover The Metallurgical Centres like the Gold of Varna in Bulgaria with 2,200 ornaments dating from as early as the 5th millennium, The Chalcolithic Period in the Iberian Peninsula which was the result of Eastern influences. Bronze (an alloy of copper and tin) appeared between 3000 and 1500BC in the Eastern Mediterranean and in Northern Europe. Pictured are remains and art in Crete, vessels, arms and armour, cultural centres, mother goddesses and horned figures, chariots, wheels and birds depicted in small Sardinian bronzes; the Mycenaean religion, funeral rites and an appendix on documents, with illustrations including the remarkable remains of Otzi, the ancient man, as preserved today. 160pp, paperback packed with colour illus. and glossy pages in this Thames & Hudson publication.

From the creators of Oi Frog!, here is a book with a lift up surprise. According to Frog, cats sit on gnats, dogs sit on logs, armadillos sit on pillows and chicks sit on bricks! But Cat doesn't like sitting on gnats. They keep biting his bottom. Will Frog or Dog help? What else could Cat possibly sit on? Super rhyming fun for ages 3-6, all children love animals and here are sharks, ponies, crows, flamingos, hogs and more in a super rhyming story. Life the flap and find the answer Cat is looking for. Another hilarious book from this very popular series with big powerful colour illus.