Adams' nude photographs can be seen in galleries across the world and he has worked as a professional artist, film director and photographer winning numerous awards. The beauty and grace of the female form has captivated artists for centuries. Now in the digital age, photographers can still capture the nude body with artful sensitivity and Adams gives us a rare glimpse behind the scenes of his photo shoots, showing us how to use accurate techniques to achieve stunning and organic results. His models are curvaceous and beautiful and look serene even if lying across a bridge in the countryside or wrapped in paper against a tree or a bottom sticking out of a black, bottomless cove in a cliff face creating a feeling of unease. The use of reflections, correcting exposures, retouching with Photoshop, working with natural light, and common courtesies when working with non-professional models all require hard work and patience to make a secure environment, and finding the right location is just as important as finding a suitable subject to create a coherent image. Plenty of buttocks and bosoms and beauty on each of these 176 large pages published by the Photographers? Institute Press. Softback, 17.8 x 25.4cm.
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200 fast and furious code-cracking puzzles from the pages of The Daily Mirror. Each puzzle has a time limit and your task is to complete the crossword grid within the time, so can you beat the clock? Target times are given in minutes and seconds above the very large grid with the alphabet A-Z along the bottom to cross off as you go in these fun, frantic and taxing puzzles. With solutions, extra large softback, 304pp.

Would you rather be a tennis ball or tennis racket? Would you rather be married to King Henry VIII (in spite of his flatulence) or be in the Charge of the Light Brigade? Would you rather have a Swiss Army hand or an Inspector Gadget helicopter blade that emerged from your head? Would you rather die on your feet, live on your knees or slide down a bank of snow on your bottom? Hundreds of family-friendly fun conundrums and questions including an adult section with slightly older nostalgic references to films, music, TV, politics or older gadgets: 'Would you rather own a Bunsen burner or an overhead projector?' Of course the kids would scratch their heads not knowing what they were! A totally bonkers gift with lined pages at the end for your own notes and daft thoughts. 204pp.

The popular boardgame Catan is a timeless world waiting for you to explore, build and settle - and solve! The book even if you are unfamiliar with the game itself has 100 original puzzles providing a narrative adventure that allows you to discover the unsettled island of Catan, win resources and victory points which lead to success. The puzzles may be solved on their own or as part of a narrative that runs through the book which is fantastically illustrated throughout with more than 150 in-world artworks. The various puzzles affect your budding band of workers and tradesmen and you will be rewarded with a resource like lumber, ore, wool, grain or brick or reach an achievement like roads, settlements, cities and knights. After landing on these lush shores, guide your fellow settlers to peace and prosperity. You will need to keep your wits about you assigning jobs, managing resources, and decoding cryptic maps at the start of your perplexing responsibility. 100 puzzles, 10 themed chapters. Colour artworks, 224pp, softback 15.2 x 21cm.

'A Quiz Book for the Cultured Trainspotter' the book will test your knowledge of this country's rail system and enlighten you on the most colourful aspects of its long history. Covers entrepreneurs and engineers beginning with the first question. The carved head of which British steam pioneer is on the roof of the Gare du Nord Station, Paris? Was George Stephenson the father of Robert, or was Robert the father of George? Who on 5th July 1841 took his first step in the leisure travel business by chartering a train to take 500 temperance supporters from Leicester to Loughborough? What is Brunel's billiard table? There are picture questions and archive photos of the Flying Scotsman right up to which Great British Bake Off judge once served on the BR Board? Meet trunk murderers, trainspotters, haters of railways, railway writers, Ministers for Transport good and bad, railway cats and dogs and even a railway penguin, crime and criminals, celebrities, staff, stations and tunnels, bridges and junctions, famous trains and locos, carriages and sleepers, classes and tickets, refreshment, erotica and accidents. When was smoking banned on trains? What regular lineside event did Dickens describe as 'a shave in the air'? And what is a steam banana? 230pp, photos and thankfully, answers.

For fans of this cult Japanese puzzle here are 365 fiendish sudokus which require all your powers of logic, endurance and concentration to be rewarded with hours of brain-twisting fun. A challenge for every day of the year, this softback book has one clear big puzzle in an elegant layout with an elastic fastener and a full size bright white pencil with a rubber tip slotted into an elastic fastener down the side, so when you change your mind you can easily erase and make your second or third (or fourth) attempt. Mind bending fun with numbers, beautifully decorated cover with black background and pale pink flowers and berries, birds and leaves design for a lovely gift idea.