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.

Divided into sections with titles such as Happy Days, Chill-Out Days, Celebration Days and the all-important Baking Days, Nadiya's recipe book radiates that infectious can-do approach to cookery which has won her millions of fans worldwide. "Everyday Kind of Days" are never going to be ordinary with Nadiya, as she knocks together a quick breakfast of Banana and Peanut Butter Roll-Ups coated in chocolate ganache. Using tortillas as the wrapping, these delicious treats can be made with ingredients you already have in your kitchen, and the same is true of Harissa Pita Pockets, "a totally different take on avocado toast". Potato Peel Chips are a wonderfully spicy snack using peelings that would otherwise have ended up in the waste, Anchovy Crumb Pasta is "rich, salty, creamy and heartwarming", while Hot Chocolate Custard Cake - well, speaks for itself. "Happy Days" revolves round comfort eating and includes the Cornbread Dog that Nadiya admits she has only seen in films, but she decides to have a go at it anyway. The aim is to create as little washing up as possible but it still has that essential soft cornbread base, sausage middle and mustard and ketchup on the top. Next up is the Dump-it-all-in Mexican Dinner, consisting of spiced cooked meat and tortilla baked with cheese and jalapeno. Southern "fried" Chicken Livers are also oven-baked with a seasoned coating. Pistachio and Poppy Seed Cake with pistachio praline is a special occasion cake with a wow factor, while a big spiced Cinnamon Bun Cake can be knocked up at any time to stave off snack hunger. Aromatic Chicken Biryani, Baked Shrimp Toast, Sicilian Meatloaf and a spectacularly marbled Angel Layer Cake, Surprise Snickerdoodles, White Chocolate and Raspberry Puff Bar, Marbled Ice Cream Loaf Cake, Butterscotch Cheesecake Coconut Bars and No-Knead Bread are among the 100 recipes from Nadiya's baking repertoire. Many are for vegetarians or vegans and the instructions are clear and easy to follow, accompanied by beautiful photos. 19.8 x 25cm, 256pp.

A mega-monstertorium packed with 10 pencils in different colours from green and blue, bright florescent orange, red, purple, grey and taupe, two of which are in glittering metallic hues and two vivid neon. Use the tear-out cards to customise and play the Epic Beasts Slam card game. The ultimate guide to colouring and drawing awesome monsters, here are tips from experts on how to create fur, spikes, scales, add cool steampunk parts and other accessories and instructions for making and playing with your own monster cards. It is a modern fantasy-themed colouring and activity kit where some of the creatures are fantasy ogres and giants, other more dragon like, others more weirdly imaginary whether the fur is rich or shiny, mangy or matted from battle, the choice is yours. With techniques including hatching, stippling, cross hatching and scumbling, ideal for creating scales. Tear off sketchpad softback, hardback cover.

Franz Marc is one of the best-known modern horse artists who felt that these animals had a natural purity and innate spirituality. Greatly influenced by Impressionism, he teaches us that while the rules of draughtsmanship are important you should not allow visual realism to restrict you. Evolving your style is about experimentation. Here this beautifully illustrated manual shows you how to draw various breeds of horses through observation of anatomy, form and proportion to take your horse portraits to the next level. Learn the rules to capture the beauty of the horse in motion, a variety of techniques for rendering essential details and learn from George Stubbs, Dürer and others; add a setting like the stable or the hack, gentle cross-country riding. Learn about single and double-point perspective and acrylic paint techniques. The horses covered include the Mustang, the Friesian, Andalusian and the Haflinger pony and steps include the gallop, the canter, Plus the race horse, facial details, the muzzle, ear, eye and it all begins with the basics of using simple shapes. Extra large softback 128pp, 27.9 x 22.5cm.

Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) received enormous success with his illustrations for Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle (1905) which led him to illustrating another 45 major works including such classics as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Aesop's Fables and various works by Shakespeare. His imaginative and distinctive characters as well as his command of watercolours and Indian ink made his work not only unique, but dreamlike when he rendered fantastical creatures like fairies and goblins and recreated classic scenes in works like The Night Before Christmas. Here is his The Hare and the Tortoise, Jack and the Beanstalk, the story of The Three Bears, Who Stole the Tarts?, The Fairies are Exquisite Dancers, The Duke's Oak, Tom Make My Small Elves Coats from A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the hookah-smoking caterpillar from Alice, all reproduced in this huge softback. Printed on high quality paper, the 45 vibrant illustrations for you to colour in each has a suggestion of how to start colouring as well as key information such as title and date. You can use a wide variety of pens from gel and pencil to pigment and crayons, ballpoint and rollerball to highlighters, although it is best to avoid very heavy felt pens. Each page is perforated near the spine so you can tear out the artwork and frame it. 96pp, softback, 25.4cm squared.

A premium quality snap-fit jigsaw of 500 pieces with an astonishing 800 beautiful sparkling crystals on stick-on gem sheets ranging from clear crystals to blue, orange and green to decorate your Blue Cockatoo with his feathers and plume and beak and beady eye. Elevate your jigsaw experience putting together the stunning image piece by calming piece. Then upgrade the beautiful artwork with a finely-crafted selection of glittering stick-on gems. We have never seen anything like this before at Bibliophile and are delighted to offer it.

'The Complete Guide to Shooting Intimate Portraits', luxurious and sexy, boudoir photo sessions are now increasingly popular when more women are having intimate fashion portraits taken for their boyfriends or husbands or even just for themselves. Once popular mainly with brides, now women of all ages celebrate everything from anniversaries to birthdays to their own independent spirit. This is not old-fashioned glamour photography but a new genre, with a focus on flattering the subject and creating tasteful, liberating and empowering photographs, not always in lingerie but sometimes in everyday clothing incorporated into the photography session and location a home, outdoors and in a style to fit the woman's personality and or fulfil her fantasies. Look for inspiration in this superb gallery of slim, beautiful women with professional tips on lighting and posing and even sample albums in different sizes to show your clients what they may choose from if you take the hobby further. Covers lenses and tools of the trade, accessories, locations, hair and make-up, but best of all beautiful women and props like a bustier to add lift and hide problem areas, leather jackets to feel sexy, before and after shots to show the transformation, props likes masks and fans and strings of pearls, the quality of lighting, use of shadows, posing with furniture (think Christine Keeler), slimming angles, lying down, different body shapes, and of course beautiful lingerie, stocking tops. Plus all the adjustments which can be made on your computer to smooth the skin, brighten eyes, tone images and textures and more, and tips on making your subject comfortable and producing portraits they will love. 160pp in large softback, 24.13 x 25.4cm. Hundreds of glam colour photos.

Subtitled 'From Kokedama to Terrariums and Water Gardens to Edibles', this book opens up a world beyond the modest kitchen-window Spider Plant. A basics section includes "Prune your way to happiness" and "Conquer your watering fears". Potting, cutting, trimming are all covered in a no-nonsense style with diagrams. "Fertilizer is a gateway drug", warns the author, and you should not succumb to coercive marketing techniques designed, as with humans, to get your plants hooked. The planting guide is divided into desert, temperate, tropical and aquatic. Among desert plants, a palm is graceful to look at and a good air purifier, but you need to be careful about their light needs. The spiky snake plant just wants to be left alone and is a good choice for bedrooms as it gives off oxygen at night. Ferns also present no care difficulties, though "they do like a bit of attention". Among tropical plants the Citrus with its colourful fruit lends an "Italian Riviera kind of vibe", while aquatic plants include Marimo or moss balls which sink or float in water, with the oldest recorded specimens over 100 years old. A chapter of Plant Projects includes methods of display and culture, including terrariums, water gardens, hanging and vertical gardens and the kitchen garden. The author gives instructions for creating a tropical terrarium in a bell jar, easily ordered online, and accompanied by photos of every stage. A Hanging Air Plant Globe or Underwater Landscape are attractive projects, and the Kitchen Garden section shows how you can grow garlic or carrots indoors. Finally there is Plant Style, with a "mid-century" look taking the stage as a large cheese plant overhangs your Scandinavian chair. A beautifully produced book, clear, concise, with colour photos on every double spread. 196pp.

This impressive guidebook to techniques for an aspiring fantasy artist, covering traditional and digital media, features ideas for writing, graphics and movies. Many of the best fantasy paintings imply a narrative, with inspiration coming from childhood memories, dreams, books, movies, mythology, or other works of art, for instance the symbolism of pre-Raphaelite painters such as Burne Jones or mystics like William Blake. The important thing is to open your mind. Tools and techniques are many and varied, including pencil, charcoal, ink, markers, watercolour, acrylics, oils, digital tools and software. Many fantasy artists start in a traditional medium then scan the picture to be developed digitally. Among the examples is a Wizard created in ballpoint, watercolour, and gouache. A Fallen Angel starts with a photo, then a drawing and finally sophisticated digital refinement. Techniques made possible by software are dodge and burn, the brush smudge, hue brightness, and the use of different brush widths. Concepts include the creation of a humanoid starting with a life drawing, then using exaggeration and distortion, but stopping short of caricature. Anthropomorphism is often very effective, for instance a tree with face in the work of Arthur Rackham. Other popular motifs are swords and sorcery, dragons, enchantment, charms, and cliffs. People can be beautiful but the context, lighting and style might indicate whether they are to be trusted. 192pp, ringbound hard cover, colour illustrations on every page.