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.

In the Retro Games series with Victorian looking striped packaging, the box set contains two full sets of playing cards and a set of five dice and a fantastic 64 page colour instruction paperback to learn all the rules of favourites like Pontoon, Stud, Whiskey and Draw Poker, Old Maid, Knaves, Knock-out Whist, Honest John, Fan-Tan and English Hazard among them. Full instructions, number of players, equipment, aim and rules.

A large quality softback packed with modern colour illustrations for all who find sketching fun and therapeutic. There are 250 prompts and ideas to get you started and stretch your design muscles from 5-10 minute exercises to open-ended in-depth creative explorations. Molly provides details on how to build an art kit and encourages risk taking and experimentation beyond the pages of the book as you discover your own drawing style. Create your own hand-lettered alphabet, draw the view from one of the windows in your house, draw in a café or take a quick pencil sketch from a park. Learn about colour palettes on the colour wheels shown and drawing figures using trapezoids and rectangles to get the shape and there's plenty of space to fill in outfits and faces on people where the drawings are started in the book. Draw people enjoying a party which is decorated and ready in the living room with lounge and even a pinãta, add plants to a garden, finish the kitchen design, add sea life to the ocean or fill in a landscape with houses, people, cars, trees, flowers etc. Add lettering and decoration to the cake outlines provided, tourists to the beach scene, wings to a butterfly, patterns to bedding; discover drawing with both hands, colouring in, designs for fancy dinner plates or patterned chairs. One of the hilarious opening exercises is to add cute doodles to the eight different styles of underwear! For drawing with paintbrushes, pens, coloured pencils, pencils, gel pens and the uses of scrap paper and sketchbooks. 352 thick quality pages and plenty of blank for your own creativity, all in colour. Heavyweight softback.

Fluid, fast and expressive life drawings start here with a wonderful comprehensive course based on classic principles. Here are essential techniques for drawing gesture, figures, clothing, expression, body language and to render fleeting gestures from memory and capturing expressions simply and quickly. Along the way develop a more spontaneous approach for successfully working from life as you learn skills about construction, hands and expressions, use photographs to draw an eye, nose or mouth and mould the features into expressions, interlock folds of clothing, pipe folds of clothing and practice spherical figures, cubic forms to settings and perspectives and the asymmetrical balance of light and dark called compressing the values. The world is constantly in motion - capture it. 128pp softback, illus. 21 x 27.4cm.

In a huge plume of smoke a black and red steam train numbered 761 powers towards the viewer pulling two blue carriages and several red carriages as it emerges between trees from under a bridge on a sunny day. The finished puzzle size is 51 x 69cm in this most traditional image we think will appeal to many of our Bibliophile customers. 1000 piece quality jigsaw puzzle, boxed.