Gift Ideas

  1. my first number snap

    My First Number Snap

    A perfect way for children to practice their number skills. Learn More
    £ 4.00
  2. My Daddy is a Giant

    My Daddy is a Giant

    In book and audio CD format this is the story of a dad as seen by his son. Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 8.75

    Special Price: £ 7.75

  3. Marley Goes to School

    Marley Goes to School

    Marley gets into all sorts of trouble as Cassie starts her first day at school. Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 5.99

    Special Price: £ 5.29

  4. The World of Peter Rabbit

    The World of Peter Rabbit

    Three favourite Beatrix Potter stories beautifully shot on DVD.

    Classification: U Learn More
    £ 12.99
  5. My First Atlas of the World

    My First Atlas of the World

    An atlas of the world with stickers for little fingers. Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 3.99

    Special Price: £ 3.49

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  1. Children's Colour Dictionary

    Children's Colour Dictionary

    A new edition of this popular children's colour dictionary
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    Regular Price: £ 5.99

    Special Price: £ 5.29

  2. The BFG

    The BFG

    When orphan Sophie is snatched from her bed by a Giant, she fears that he's going to eat her. But although he carries her far away to Giant Country, the Giant has no intention of harming her Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 6.99

    Special Price: £ 6.19

  3. The Worst Witch CD

    The Worst Witch (Complete and Unabridged)

    Following the story of Mildred Hubble on CD. Read by Mirian Margolyes. Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 5.87

    Special Price: £ 5.49

  4. boggle

    Boggle

    The 3 minute word search game. Drop the lettered dice in the tray, start the timer and try to find as many words as you can in 3 minutes Learn More
    £ 12.99
  5. connect

    Connect 4

    Drop the coloured counters (the classic yellow and red) into the towering connect 4 grid to form a straight line of four in a row - vertically, horizontally or diagonally. Who ever gets the four in a row wins the game. Sounds easy - but this is a game where you'll need strategy skills in abundance, to plan ahead and trick the competition.
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    £ 9.99
  6. animals of the world

    Jigsaw Puzzle: Animals of the World

    A fun way to learn something about the geography of the world whilst completing a colourful jigsaw. Learn More
    £ 7.99
  7. Everything on Earth

    Everything on Earth

    A fully illustrated and fact packed book on our planet and its wildlife Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 12.99

    Special Price: £ 11.49

  8. The Battle of the Sun

    The Battle of the Sun

    An epic and nail biting adventure featuring London in the 1600's and written by acclaimed author Jeanette Winterson. Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 10.99

    Special Price: £ 9.99

  9. Abalone

    Abalone

    A board strategy game involving marbles and the objective is to devise an attack which pushes six of your opponent's marbles off the board. Learn More
    £ 19.99

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  1. Life of Pi CD

    Life of Pi

    After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The crew of the surviving vessel consists of a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan, a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger and Pi - a 16-year-old Indian boy. Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 15.99

    Special Price: £ 13.99

  2. Take Better Photos with Your Phone

    Take Better Photos with your Phone

    This book offers advice on how to utilize your camera phone to its full potential and obtain the best pictures possible. Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 4.99

    Special Price: £ 4.49

  3. HOW TO BEAT YOUR DAD AT CHESS

    How to Beat Your Dad at Chess

    Fun, instructive - and guaranteed to improve your game. Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 9.99

    Special Price: £ 8.99

  4. TEACH YOURSELF SONGWRITING

    Teach Yourself Songwriting

    Teach yourself Songwriting will be an essential companion for any aspiring songwriter, and is ideal for those with no formal musical education. Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 12.99

    Special Price: £ 11.49

  5. rubiks revenge

    Rubiks Revenge (4x4)

    Are you up to the challenge? Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 12.99

    Special Price: £ 9.99

  6. Nintendo DS Handheld Console with Brain Training  (Pink)

    Nintendo DS Handheld Console with Brain Training (Pink)

    The ideal intelligent games combination which instantly provides you with puzzle and brain training. Score yourslef regularly and see how you're progressing .
    (Also sold in Black). Learn More
    £ 119.99
  7. Train Your Brain to be a Genius

    Train Your Brain to be a Genius

    An introduction to the brain aimed at children and full of stories and information to help to unlock its potential. Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 14.99

    Special Price: £ 12.99

  8. Greatest Intergallactic Guide to Space Ever

    The Greatest Intergalactic Guide to Space Ever... by the Brainwaves

    Find out everything you ever wanted to know about the universe! Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 12.99

    Special Price: £ 11.49

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  1. COMPLETE BOOK OF CARD GAMES

    Complete Book of Card Games

    Including over 90 card games for all ages, and for one, two, three, four, five or more players, this book contains easy-to follow explanations of the rules, order of play, ranking of cards, tactics and the origins of each game. Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 5.99

    Special Price: £ 5.49

  2. THE MONEY DIET

    The Money Diet

    With one hundred new MoneySaving pages, in this fully updated edition of the bestselling, The Money Diet, Martin Lewis shows you how to be canny with your finances, and provides clear-cut advice on payment of bills, ways to slash spending, which banks to use and choosing the best deals on an even greater range of products. Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 8.99

    Special Price: £ 7.99

  3. THE BEST MUSIC YOU'VE NEVER HEARD

    The Best Music You've Never Heard

    The Rough Guide to the Best Music You've Never Heard is a winning collection of amazing stories of tragic mavericks and unlucky contenders, with hundreds of lost classics and hidden gems. Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 12.99

    Special Price: £ 11.49

  4. articulate

    Articulate

    The fast talking description game! Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 24.99

    Special Price: £ 21.99

  5. the sixth sense

    The Sixth Sense

    Spooky, puzzling, sad. Learn More
    £ 5.99
  6. Logical Chess Move by Move

    Logical Chess Move by Move

    A classic old chess title written for the intermediate chess player. Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 14.99

    Special Price: £ 12.99

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  1. Brilliant: Answers to tough interview questions

    Brilliant Answers to Tough Interview Questions

    Interviews are your chance to showcase your talents. Get it right and you could nail the job of your dreams, get it wrong and you could be in for a stressful time.

    Your biggest challenge will be using the questions they throw at you to show off your skills and potential - turning even the most awkward questions to your advantage. Brilliant Answers to Tough Interview Questions shows you how.

    Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 9.99

    Special Price: £ 8.99

  2. Speech-making and Presentation Made Easy

    Speech-Making and Presentation Made Easy

    A guide to becoming a successful speaker. It offers advice on how to: keep audiences engaged; prepare, plan and structure; use visual aids; inspire your listeners; present at work; make wedding and social speeches; and, understand body language. Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 5.99

    Special Price: £ 5.29

  3. Hugo Complete Spanish

    Hugo Complete Spanish

    Learn to speak and understand Spanish with this comprehensive book and CD set, ideal for beginners.

    This pack includes 6 x CDs and 2 x books. Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 45.00

    Special Price: £ 39.99

  4. PROFESSOR LAYTON AND THE CURIOUS VILLAGE

    Professor Layton and the Curious Village(Nintendo DS)

    Nominated as one of the top handheld games of the year by the Japanese Game Awards, Professor Layton and the Curious Village sets players loose in a Victorian dream world as you and your guide, Professor Layton, explore a quirky Victorian village where everything is a puzzle. Learn More
    £ 29.99
  5. brain trainer

    Brain Trainer (PC CD Rom)

    15 mind enhancing activities combine to act as your personal trainer for boosting brain power. Learn More
    £ 9.78
  6. Train Your Brain to be a Genius

    Train Your Brain to be a Genius

    An introduction to the brain aimed at children and full of stories and information to help to unlock its potential. Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 14.99

    Special Price: £ 12.99

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  1. Essential Manager's Manual

    Essential Manager's Manual

    Provides tips and advice on 12 core management skills. This book enables readers to improve their management skills and take control of their careers. It helps readers to handle work issues. Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 25.00

    Special Price: £ 22.50

  2. New Penguin Dictionary of Quotations

    New Penguin Dictionary of Quotations

    Presents a collection of sayings, comments and sage words. From Chinua Achebe to Emile Zola, each entry in this work collates the most famous quotations from a range of people and includes a mini-biography that helps put the sayings in context. Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 17.99

    Special Price: £ 15.99

  3. HOW TO LEAD

    How to Lead

    This provocative yet practical book, is the essential guide to the theory and practice of leadership - whatever your level in an organisation. Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 12.99

    Special Price: £ 11.49

  4. the devils advocate

    Devil's Advocate

    Powerful, gripping, incredible. Learn More
    £ 3.99
  5. absolute balderdash

    Absolute Balderdash

    This hilarious bluffing game, includes 495 cards, 2475 questions and 5 different categories.
    Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 29.99

    Special Price: £ 27.99

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  1. how to remember almost everything ever

    How to Remember (Almost) Everything, Ever!

    Including tricks, experiments and mind games, this book helps you train your brain - amazing your friends and impressing your teachers. Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 5.99

    Special Price: £ 5.29

  2. BRIDGE FOR COMPLETE BEGINNERS

    Bridge for Complete Beginners

    Learn how to play bridge with this simple step-by-step guide. Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 5.99

    Special Price: £ 5.49

  3. DRAWING MADE EASY

    Drawing Made Easy: Beautiful Landscapes

    This 64-page book covers everything aspiring artists need to know to start creating their own masterful works of landscape art.
    Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 4.99

    Special Price: £ 4.49

  4. As good as it gets

    As Good As It Gets

    Charming, funny, zany. Learn More
    £ 3.49
  5. boggle

    Boggle

    The 3 minute word search game. Drop the lettered dice in the tray, start the timer and try to find as many words as you can in 3 minutes Learn More
    £ 12.99

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  1. Bradford's Crossword Solver's Dictionary

    Collins Bradford's Crossword Solver's Dictionary

    The number one bestseller! This new edition of the much-loved Bradford's Crossword Solver's Dictionary offers even more than ever before.

    With over 30,000 new solutions, users will never again be short of answers to their crossword clues! Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 12.99

    Special Price: £ 11.49

  2. The Kite Runner CD

    The Kite Runner

    The international bestseller which has captivated readers and listeners the world over. Beginning in Afghanistan on the eve of the Russian invasion, an unlikely friendship between two boys leads to a terrible betrayal and a lifelong quest for redemption. Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 16.63

    Special Price: £ 14.49

  3. TEACH YOURSELF THE INTERNET AND EMAIL FOR THE OVER 50s

    Teach Yourself the Internet and Email for the Over 50s

    Focussing on a wide range of Internet and email uses that are of particular relevance and interest to older computer users and the technologically terrified, including travel, shopping and much more, this book even covers online dating! Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 7.99

    Special Price: £ 6.99

  4. The English Patient

    The English Patient

    Agonising, impassioned, tragic. Learn More
    £ 6.99
  5. About Time

    About Time

    'About Time' is a fun packed board game that invites players to test their general knowledge, lateral thinking and poker-style cunning, as it takes them on a journey through time. Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 24.99

    Special Price: £ 20.00

  6. Dr. Kawashima's brain training

    Dr Kawashima's Brain Training: How old is your brain?(Nintendo DS)

    Part puzzle game, part self improvement tool this is one of those games that's both lots of fun and good for you Learn More
    £ 19.99
  7. Chess

    Chess

    A book on how to play chess, useful at any level Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 7.99

    Special Price: £ 6.99

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  1. Match Wits with the Kids

    Match Wits with the Kids

    "Match Wits with the Kids" is a lot of fun - and the ideal read for anyone feeling threatened by know-it-all children or keen to find ways to enthuse them!
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    Regular Price: £ 8.99

    Special Price: £ 7.99

  2. Lark Rise to Candleford

    Lark Rise to Candleford

    Olivia Hallinan reads Flora Thompson's much-loved story, based on her experiences during childhood and youth. Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 17.61

    Special Price: £ 15.61

  3. Hugo Complete French

    Hugo Complete French

    A book and CD set, which helps readers learn to speak and understand French.

    This course includes: 6 x CDs and 2 x books. Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 45.00

    Special Price: £ 39.99

  4. scrabble

    Scrabble Original

    Scrabble is the world's bestselling word game and once people start playing this famous word game they are usually captivated for life. Learn More
    £ 19.99
  5. amelie

    Amelie

    Humorous, questioning, strange. Learn More
    £ 5.49
  6. Changeling

    Changeling

    Angelina Jolie stars as a mother whose son disappears in 1928 Los Angeles. When he returns months later, she realizes that he is not her child.
    Learn More
    £ 9.99
  7. Organised Fun for Grown-Ups : Make Your Own Fun For Free

    Organised Fun for Grown-Ups : Make Your Own Fun For Free

    A broad compilation of fun games to play, ranging from traditional classics to new lesser known inventions. And all for free. Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 9.99

    Special Price: £ 8.99

  8. Organised Fun for Kids : A Sherbet-fizzing Compendium of Children's Games

    Organised Fun for Kids : A Sherbet-fizzing Compendium of Children's Games

    A collection of games for children of all ages to keep them usefully and happily entertained and busy. Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 9.99

    Special Price: £ 8.99

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  1. Bird Song by Sebastian Faulks

    Birdsong

    Birdsong is a 1993 war novel by the English author Sebastian Faulks. Faulks' fourth novel, it tells of a man called Stephen Wraysford at different stages of his life both before and during World War I. Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 7.99

    Special Price: £ 6.99

  2. Penguin Book of Facts

    Penguin Book of Facts

    'One of the greatest reference books ever published' (Independent on Sunday). Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 14.99

    Special Price: £ 12.99

  3. SIDEWAYS

    Sideways

    Realistic, humorous, heartbreaking. Learn More
    £ 4.49
  4. About Time

    About Time

    'About Time' is a fun packed board game that invites players to test their general knowledge, lateral thinking and poker-style cunning, as it takes them on a journey through time. Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 24.99

    Special Price: £ 20.00

  5. 36 cube

    36 Cube

    How many towers can YOU place? Brain challenging fun to keep you occupied for hours... Learn More

    Regular Price: £ 16.99

    Special Price: £ 14.99

  6. BEJEWELED

    Bejeweled 2 (PC/Mac/CD Rom)

    "The best puzzle game since Tetris...maybe of all time." - Gamer's Press. Over ten million units sold across the world. Learn More
    £ 9.78
  7. 12 Angry Men

    12 Angry Men

    Directed by Sidney Lumet, and starring Henry Fonda, 12 ANGRY MEN is a courtroom drama about the characters who make up a very indecisive jury.
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    £ 5.99

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