With instruction booklet, here is the classic nostalgic family game where players have to act out a title without speaking for their teammates to guess. With explanations of how to indicate categories like Book Title - unfold your hands as if they were a book, Movie Title - pretend to crank an old fashioned movie camera, Play Title - pretend to pull the rope that opens a theatre curtain, Song Title - pretend to sing holding a microphone, TV Show - draw a rectangle to outline a TV screen, Video Games - pretend you are playing with a controller or a joystick, Website - pretend to write on a keyboard, Landmarks - make a circle with one hand, then point to it, as if pointing to a dot on a map. Indicate other things like the number of words in the title by holding up the number of fingers and which word you are working on by holding up the number of fingers again, number of syllables in the word by laying the number of fingers on your arm, the entire concept by sweeping your arms through the air and on the nose when someone is correct. There are a few more hints which you will see. The pack contains 100 suggestion cards such as Hell's Kitchen and Call of Duty. A nostalgic box set inspired by the Ladybird books of yesteryear but with a modern twist. For two players or more, aged eight to adult. 100 cards, instructions.

Beautifully illustrated with images from the Ladybird Books bestselling and nostalgic titles it's time for some nostalgic good old-fashioned fun. The 50 games include charades, just a minute, sheep in the pen, up Jenkins, caught you!, letters of law, broken telephone, dumb crambo, trash, tomato replay, thus said the grand seignior, poetry please, wink murder, down the line, pig, slap, clap, click speak, adverb, pass it on, and more. 50 in total suitable for adults and children, the cards tell you exactly how to play, and scoring. Beautiful packaged in sturdy card box with lid. A companion to Charades code 91034. 10.5 x 14.5 x 3cm.

Following the gripping BBC One natural history series, Life Story explains the amazing lengths to which animals will go to secure their future. Packed with dramatic pictures and stills from the programme and with a foreword by David Attenborough, it is written by the Executive Producer and the Series Producer, and best of all are the high quality close-up colour photographs, many full page, in this outsize hardback showcasing the miracles and wonders of life on earth. The chapters are organised by the following: First Steps, Growing Up, Home, Power, Courtship and Parenthood. A baby wildebeest spends eight months in its mother's womb. It then slithers out of her vent on to the open savannah and staggers to its feet. Within an hour it has to be able to walk well enough to follow her as she waders away, searching for grazing. By contrast a kangaroo is born at a mere 30 days or so, a tiny, naked, worm-like creature with stump-like forelegs and no sign whatever of rear ones. It takes refuge in its mother's skinny pouch for another ten months. The book surveys some of the most fascinating ways of dealing with the trials of life - seduction and a male satin bower bird spending years learning the skills to create a bower impressive enough for his female to consider mating with him; a male Japanese puffer fish whose way of seducing a female is to create an architectural sand construction so extraordinary that until recently no one realised it had been made by a fish. On page 15 we meet an inquisitive young langur investigating its reflection in the camera, its playful curiosity held in check by its mother. Here are transformations like the snake-mimic hawkmoth caterpillar and the false eyes of the spice bush swallow tail caterpillar. An extraordinary aerial photograph at first glance of pink and black dots show groups of flamingos with their chicks nesting in the middle of a lake red from the cyanobacteria that thrive in alkaline conditions. Marabou storks discover the breeding flamingos and are a persistent menace, striding through the colony snapping up as many chicks as possible. Here are baby humpbacks who have to drink their mothers dry, prides of lions, meerkats learning to take the sting from the scorpion, the hard life of the Arctic fox and birds and fish and sharks and eagles and grouse and chimps and the fabulous colours of the male greater bird of paradise in the final stages of his courtship display. Finally the programme makers include pictures of themselves at work achieving these astonishing images. 288pp, colour photos, 25 x 26.7cm.
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Winner of the Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2019 this is a 'propulsive, beautifully written investigation into atrocity, guilt and new beginnings.' - Justine Jordan. One rainswept winter's night in 1809, an unconscious man is carried into a house in Somerset. He is Captain John Lacroix, home from Britain's disastrous campaign against Napoleon's forces in Spain. Gradually he recovers his health, but not his peace of mind. He will not and cannot talk about the war or face the memory of what took place on the retreat to Corunna. After the command comes to return to his regiment, Lacroix sets out instead for the Hebrides, unaware that he has far worse to fear than being dragged back to the army - a vicious English corporal and a Spanish officer with secret orders are on his trail, and for him, freedom will come at a high price. In luminous prose, the author portrays a man shattered by what he has witnessed, on a journey that leads to unexpected friendships, even to love. A deeply involving novel, part pastoral comedy and passionate romance story, alternating with a blackly menacing thriller about male violence, the impact of war and the price of freedom. 422pp, paperback.

Take a deep dive with the Great Whites and chart the survival of a species with Michael Muller's call to arms in a book of breakthrough underwater photography. Dr Allison Kock writes about the sharks in this book as we take a look at a decade at sea and the expeditions, shark statistics, conservation resources, but best of all huge quality underwater photography in both striking black and white and colour marine blue. See the red mouths and jagged teeth exposed, the tiny fearsome eyes and the even tinier bodies of the skilful photographer-divers. A mother feeds her young in the cool blue shallow waters, striped fish circle a Great White, a Hammerhead grazes along the sand at the bottom of an ocean, sharks fight, feed and are cleaned, eye a big colourful catch or skim below the surface. With picture index from Guadalupe Island, to bull sharks in Beqa May 2011, a lemon shark in Grand Bahama Island November 2014, a black tip, blue sharks, mako, nurse sharks and tiger sharks, silky sharks and many great whites and with short descriptions of each. The furthest distance travelled by a tagged shark is 34,500 miles, and the years since sharks' bodies have evolved significantly is 140 million years and 440 million years since sharks first appeared. Apologies if the gatefold page is damaged at the fold in an otherwise mint condition, now very rare Taschen publication. A big and glamorous tribute, pages unnumbered, all in colour. 24cm x 33cm.
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Big heavyweight glamorous reference book with over 700 wonderful colour images, this is the purrfect reference book for cat lovers. Part one opens with a brief history of the cat from wild predator to domestic friend. There is advice on buying and choosing a cat, inoculations for kittens, providing a safe environment indoors and out and choosing all the necessary equipment, all about feeding and nutrition, grooming and training, healthcare, boarding and quarantine, breeding and showing, and all is supported with step-by-step demonstrations. The second and major part is a photographic encyclopaedia of all the main breeds from ever-popular Persians and Shorthairs, Burmese and Siamese to rarer breeds such as the Maine Coon cat, Ocicat and Ragdoll. There is information on important characteristics such as temperament, grooming needs and average size. Non-pedigree cats are also featured. Here are the dangers of climbing into a still-warm washing machine, cosy images of mother and kittens in front of an open fire, 12 week old kittens demanding three meals a day, a nursing queen providing the perfect diet, the art of communication with ears pricked and alert, understanding your cat's anatomy and coping with death. For each breed there are point colours and breed fact boxes in a beautiful big clear layout on these glossy white pages. 256 large pages, can?t recommend this highly enough.

One of the most beautiful and charming films ever made adapted from Raymond Briggs' bestselling book and nominated for an Oscar in 1982, it is the story of a boy whose snowman comes to life at midnight. The two embark on a series of magical adventures high in the sky. The 26 minute colour DVD film has extras: Snow Business Documentary - The Story of a Snowman, Storyboards, Animatic, Alternative Introduction by David Bowie and An Audio Narration by Mel Smith. Featuring the beautiful soundtrack made famous by Aled Jones. This special edition comes with a sticker sheet and bonus colouring in booklet. By Universal Pictures, PG rated.

For young and old alike, the DVD features 12 of the most popular card games and explains the rules and principles following a game through from beginning to end. Discover or refresh your memory on how to play Beggar My Neighbour, My Ship Sails, Go Fish, Cheat, Old Maid, Black Maria, Rummy, Gin Rummy, 500 Rummy, Whist, Knock Out Whist and Nap. The accompanying book examines the most popular card games in the world with large explanatory diagrams in black, white and red all over. The history makes clear that the first known reference to a card game comes from China in AD868 and that by the middle of the 15th century, Ming Dynasty players were using packs with four suits. The Saracens and Moors were playing an ancient game called Maib in the 14th century, and Egyptian decks with 52 cards survived from the same period, the suits traditionally swords, clubs, cups and coins, but the French introduced hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades. Beautifully packaged, first time discounted.

A moving memoir following the Glass siblings throughout the course of the 20th century exploring assimilation, identity and home, the book is the story and secrets of a 20th century Jewish family. After her grandmother died, Hadley Freeman travelled to her apartment to try and make sense of a woman she'd never really known. Sala Glass was a European expat in America, defiantly clinging to her French influences, famously reserved, fashionable to the end, yet to Hadley much of her life remained a mystery. Sala's experience of surviving one of the most tumultuous periods in modern history was never spoken about. Hadley found a shoebox filled with her grandmother's treasured belongings and started a decade-long quest to find out their haunting significance and dig deep into the extraordinary lives of Sala and her three brothers. The search takes Hadley from Picasso's archives in Paris to a secret room in a farmhouse in Auvergne to Long Island and to Auschwitz. Hadley brings to life Alex's past as a fashion couturier and friend of Dior and Chagall. Trusting and brave Jacques, a fierce patriot for his adopted country and the brilliant Henri who hid in occupied France - each of them made extraordinary bids for survival during WWII. Alongside her great-uncles' extraordinary acts of courage in Vichy France, Hadley discovers her grandmother's equally heroic but more private form of female self-sacrifice. At the same time the book is an acute examination of the roots, tropes and persistence of anti-Semitism. A brave and thrilling almost detective story. 448pp, illus. Family tree.

A Wolf Pack spy thriller by 'a master of spy fiction to rival le Carré' - David Young. War is coming to Europe. They must be ready. British spymaster Barnaby Allen begins recruiting a network of agents in Germany. With diplomatic relations quickly unravelling, this pack of spies soon comes into their own - the horse-loving German, the young American sports journalist, the mysterious Luftwaffe officer, the Japanese diplomat and the most unlikely one of all, the SS officer's wife. Despite constant danger and the ever-present threats of discovery and betrayal, Allen's network unearths top-secret plans for a new German fighter plane, and a truly devastating intelligence prize - an audacious Japanese plan to attack the United States. But can they prove it? The race is on. 374pp, paperback.