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.

Original illustrations from Audubon's masterwork Birds of America. Favourites include the Blue Jay, Golden Eagle, colourful flycatchers, warblers, waterbirds, the Barred Owl, Passenger Pigeon, Belted Kingfisher, Red-shouldered Hawk, Carolina Wren, Baltimore Oriole, American Flamingo, Yellow-billed Magpie, all with vibrant plumage and ideal subjects for colouring in. John James Audubon (1785-1851) was born in Haiti and raised in France, emigrating to North America when he was 18 to avoid conscription into the Napoleonic Wars. His true passion was ornithology and he spent many years identifying and recording bird species. Peter Gray, a long established illustrator of books, provides the outline on each right hand page, some portrait some landscape orientation, and we can follow the colours of Audubon's originals in situ on branches and sometimes with berries and flowers on the opposite page. 96 pages, 22.5 x 28cm, softback.