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Wrinklies Bedside Companion
Contains everything that the greying generation needs to know about the world - and quite a lot that it doesn’t! A source of interesting quotes and facts for insomniac seniors, it serves as a one-stop quote shop for all things that those with plenty of life experience will find amusing. HB, 192pp.
Ref. M179682 £9.99 Codebreaking Sisters: Our Secret War
Raised in a Lancashire country house in the 1920s, these sisters quickly become fluent in German when their family takes in two Austrian Jewish refugees and goes on to shape their roles for ever, one posted to top-secret listening stations and the other in the Code & Cipher Office. PB, 304pp.
Ref. M184237 £8.99 Bletchley Park Brain Teasers
The code breakers of Bletchley Park were united in their love of a good puzzle. If you feel the same, why not dive in, put your mental agility to the test and discover whether Bletchley Park would have recruited YOU? PB, 288pp.
Ref. M171791 £12.99 How To Solve a Cryptic Crossword
Have you always wondered how to do a cryptic crossword? Solving one maybe easier than you think thanks to this book. This simpleto-use guide will help you solve any cryptic crossword, whether you’re a complete beginner or a puzzler seeking to expand your knowledge. PB, 240pp.
Ref. M184200 £8.99
DIY Watercolor Flowers
Learn to paint beautiful watercolor flowers in simple steps with this free and easy approach to watercolor painting for beginners. Find out about paper, brushes and paints, color mixing, wet and dry techniques, blending and gradients. Then learn to paint roses, peonies, carnations, dahlias, anemones, poppies, leaves, details and textures and how to bring all of these together into beautiful compositions which make lovely art pieces, journal pages, handmade stationery and greetings cards, inspirational quote frames, personalized gifts and more.
PB, 160pp. Ref. M184592 £15.99
Beautiful Colour by Numbers
An inspiring collection of over 60 images that will encourage you to be creative and to develop your colouring skills. Artworks include landscapes, animals and flowers as well as intricate patterns and mandalas. Each line drawing is numbered so that you can follow the key to produce a stunning colour artwork. PB, 128pp.
Ref. M184453 £7.99
Colourful Drawing Artist Pack
This Artist Pack provides a selection of high quality, fundamental tools perfect for artists that want to focus on drawing in colour. It comes with everything needed to start creating and includes 24 colouring pencils,15 page drawing pad and a pencil sharpener.
Reading Matters
The End of the Road
Jack Cooke drives around the British Isles in a clappedout forty-year old hearse in search of famous - and not so famous - tombs, graves and burial sites, including that of the Lady of Hoy, an 18th century suicide victim whose body was kept in near perfect condition by the bog in which she was buried. A truly unique, beautifully written and wonderfully imagined book. HB, 320pp.
Ref. M185455 £14.99
With These Hands
Delighting her fans for more than four decades with her mischievous wit and wry observations, this classic collection of poems and monologues from Pam Ayres takes us back to where it all began, from the nostalgia of her four years in the WRAF in the 1950s to poignant reflections on motherhood. PB, 144pp.
Ref. M187558 £8.99
The Kew Gardens Wordsearch Collection
The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew have been collecting and conserving plants for nearly 260 years. This delightful collection of puzzles draws on the plants in their collection to make fascinating and educational wordsearches, all beautifully adorned with floral images. PB, 160pp.
Ref. M185722 £7.99
Mindfulness Crosswords
Lose yourself in a puzzle and make space for some ‘me time’ with these mindful crosswords. This book will help you to find peace in a frantic world by putting your worries to one side and inhabiting the moment, all while giving your brain a gentle workout. PB, 192pp.
Man with a Van
Star of TV’s Salvage Hunters, Drew Pritchard takes us up and down the country into garages, factories, schools and pubs, digging out incredible items from that ‘other time and place’. Then by lovingly restoring them, he brings our history back to life. HB, 288pp.
Ref. M187119 £16.99
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A Del of a Life
‘’During my life I’ve been blessed to play characters such as Derek Trotter, Granville, Pop Larkin and Frost. I’ve worked a few things out for myself about friendship, ambition, rejection, success, failure, adversity and fortune. With any luck, some of these thoughts and observations will chime with episodes and challenges in your own life. And if they don’t... well, hopefully, at the very least you’ll have a good old laugh at my expense’’. HB, 336pp.
Ref. M187107 £20.00
Frost: A Touch of Frost on CD
A young woman becomes the sixth victim of a multiple rapist, a teenage girl goes missing, there’s a robbery at the Purple Parrot nightclub, and an old man is injured in a hit-and-run. With all this on his plate, Frost has little time and less patience for paperwork - but if he doesn’t submit the overtime reports, there will be hell to pay. Has Frost bitten off more than he can chew? Duration: 1 hour 25 mins.
Miss Marple’s Final Cases on CD
First published in the collection ‘Miss Marple’s Final Cases’, these three delightfully clever tales will keep you guessing till the end. Starring June Whitfield reprising her role as Miss Marple for the first time since 2001, they are dramatised for BBC Radio Four by Joy Wilkinson. Duration: 1 hr 30 mins.
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Countryfile - A Picture of Britain
The Countryfile Calendar is an institution, raising millions for BBC Children in Need and celebrating the glorious range of British nature photography. Now nearly three decades of stunning images taken by Countryfile viewers have been brought together for the first time in a unique, allencompassing view of rural Britain, offering a month-by-month guide to the natural world around us. HB, 256pp.
Secret Britain: Unearthing our Mysterious Past
Britain is full of ancient wonders - not grand like the Egyptian pyramids, but small, strange places and objects that hint at a deep and enduring relationship with the mystic. An Ice Age cannibal’s skull cup, a hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and a seventeenth century witch bottle are among the more than 70 of Britain’s most intriguing artefacts and ancient places that anthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota unearths as she explores the mysteries behind them. HB, 240pp.
Ref. M185552 £25.00 Ref. M185323 £20.00
Still Life
On a freezing winter morning, fishermen pull a body from the sea. It is quickly discovered that the dead man was the prime suspect in a decade-old investigation. DCI Karen Pirie was the last detective to review the file and is drawn into a sinister world of betrayal and dark secrets that has gone unchallenged for years. PB, 528pp.
A Family Secret
Sixteen-year-old Bessie works as a weaver in Blackburn, helping to support her family. Meanwhile, her older sister Peggy works as an apprentice at the Girls’ School, hoping for a more prosperous future as a schoolteacher. Jennet and Titus Eastwood have always made decisions for their daughters’ futures, but hen an unexpected though familiar face arrives in town, and the family’s future is threatened. For Bessie and Jennet, a difficult choice must be made - love or family. PB, 400pp.
Ref. M185219 £7.99
Secrets of the Lavender Girls
World War Two is still raging across Europe. But for the Lavender Girls, the workers at the Yardley cosmetics factory in East London, there are even more challenges on the home front for Esther, Patsy & Lou . One thing is certain - the Lavender Girls need one another more than ever if they are going to see it through. PB, 448pp.
The Lonely Wife
Beatrix Fawcett is just eighteen when her father tells her she is to marry a stranger. Hesitantly, but with little choice, she agrees to the match. As Beatrix sets about making their house a home, she falls in love with it and the surrounding countryside, but she does not fall in love with her husband. Soon, the only spark in Beatrix’s lonely life is her beloved children. But when Charles threatens to take them away from her, Beatrix must find strength in desperate times. PB, 368pp.
Ref. M185220 £6.99
The Pit Girl
To make a home, Kate Farrar must break the rules. Can she triumph over tragedy? After her father’s death,she is expected to move from London to a mining village in County Durham to live with an uncle she barely knows But a sudden and shocking pit disaster almost destroys everything and Kate must draw on all her courage to survive. PB, 544pp.
1st Case
When Angela Hoot is kicked off her graduate programme at MIT for hacking into the computer of a fellow student, she fears she’s blown her chances of a glittering career. Angela is wrong - instead, she’s offered a dream internship with the FBI. She jumps at the chance and is thrown into her first case at a house in the Boston suburbs where a family of five have been brutally murdered. PB, 400pp.
Ref. M185225 £7.99 Curse the Day
Scientist Tobias Hawke is due to unveil an astonishing breakthrough: his Artificial Intelligence system appears to have reached consciousness. But when terrorists storm the building, they don’t just leave chaos in their wake - they seize Hawke’s masterwork, sparking a chain reaction of events which could end the world as we know it. PB, 432pp.
Ref. M185377 £8.99 Hunter Killer
They call them the Taskforce. Designed to operate outside the bounds of law, trained to exist on the ragged edge of human capability, their existence is as essential as it is illegal. Recruited from top operators in the intelligence spheres and led by ex-Special Forces Operator Pike Logan, they are apex predators, an unrivalled hunting machine, until now. Forged in combat, the Russians are the Taskforce’s equal... but Logan’s on the warpath. He’ll do whatever it takes to save his team. PB, 448pp.
Ref. M185378 £8.99 Slow Burn
Spider Shepherd is sent on an extraordinary mission to the Syrian border by his MI5 boss. There he has to decide which of the women he meets is still a threat and which of them has information useful to the Secret Service. One bride he must take back to the UK whatever her circumstance: she is the wife of a notorious ISIS bombmaker, Salam Jaraf. However, it soon becomes obvious that hostile forces are following Spider and bringing this woman back from the warzone will become one of the most dangerous missions he has ever undertaken. PB, 400pp.
Ref. M185227 £7.99
A Yorkshire Vet: The Next Chapter
Follow Julian’s veterinary stories and amusing anecdotes through his work as a mixed practice vet in North Yorkshire. This book follows his passion for treating the animals under his care, along with the interesting and amusing characters who own and care for them. HB, 240pp.
Sir Sean Connery
One of the world’s true superstars, and the silver screen’s most beloved James Bond, Connery commanded some of the highest fees in the industry and was lauded by critics and the public alike. John Parker traces the astonishing rise to stardom of a tough street kid from Edinburgh in an authoritative and entertaining portrait of a talented, complex actor - and, above all else, a magnificent man. PB, 352pp.
Kendal Mint Cake
Romney’s Kendal Mint Cake is the famous energy bar favoured by mountaineers and hikers that has been taken on expeditions all over the world, scaling the heights of Everest in the process. Neatly packaged in a tin, 170g.
Ref. M174129 £5.99
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Ref. M174500 £9.99 Meerkat Shortbread Buttons
Shortbread buttons always make a favourite snack, so this embossed Meerkat tin with 100g of mouth watering clotted cream biscuits makes an ideal gift or self indulgence. The decorative tin will keep your biscuits fresh, as well as making for a great storage option year upon year.
Ref. M176715 £7.99
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Floral & Shell Bracelet
Captivating circles of natural paua shell and delicate enamelled flower designs make for an unusual and stylish magnetic bracelet. Contrasting hematite beads is set between each pair of circles to add health benefits. Gift boxed. Not suitable during pregnancy or for those fitted with a pacemaker. Ref. M172057 £19.99
Bluebell Chiffon Scarf
The beauty of nature and the nation’s favourite wildflower combine magnificently for this 100% polyester chiffon scarf. Featuring pretty woodland bluebells against a white background, it’s a musthave to add that summer feeling to your wardrobe. Size 27 x 70” (70 x 180cms).
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Laurel Leaves Magnetic Hematite Bracelet
The natural properties of magnetic hematite are held by many to relieve pain, aid blood flow, enhance energy and calm emotions - qualities that enhance this pretty elasticated bracelet which will fit most wrists.
Ref. M180179 £19.99
Bumper Box of 30 Christmas Cards
30 winter themed Christmas cards (5 each of 6 designs) & envelopes to keep you well prepared for sending seasonal greetings to friends and relations in far-flung places! The cards measure 4.5’’ (12cms) square and the greeting inside reads:” Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year”. Ref. M185751 £6.99 SAVE when you buy two Bumper Boxes of Christmas Cards.
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Westie Bag
A great gift for those who just adore these cheeky little fellows. This new coated canvas tote bag with it’s roomy interior makes it an excellent choice for a day out shopping or keeping work files together. With grab handles, zip fastening, interior phone holder and zip pocket for added security. Size 15.7” x 9” (40 x 23cms).
Daffodil Scarf
A favourite Springtime flower is showcased magnificently on this versatile lightweight scarf. With delicate yellow daffodils set against a soft background of various greens, the gorgeously soft scarf will lift any outfit. Size 71 x 18” x (180 x 45cms).
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