Queen Elizabeth II was much more than Britain's oldest or longest-serving monarch. Admired around the world for her serenity, wisdom and unwavering devotion to duty, she was a rock of stability in turbulent, changing times. Served by no less than 15 prime ministers, her extraordinary reign saw her visit more than 100 countries as she rubbed shoulders with powerful leaders and influential thinkers. And as Britain's empire declined, she pledged her 'heart and soul' as Head of the Commonwealth, made up of 54 richly diverse countries. The 170 quotes inside capture the queen's personal reflections on everything from history, world affairs and the monarchy to service, sacrifice and the family. Teeming with inspirational words and pearls of royal wisdom, this book is a fitting tribute to a much cherished sovereign.

This booklet is Mom's ticket to some much-deserved quality time and care. The 12 shimmering foil-stamped tickets inside can be redeemed anytime for the gifts she really wants―ranging from fun family activities to favors that let her take a load off. Perfect to give one at a time or as a set, these tickets are a sweet and thoughtful way to let Mom know she's the best on Mother's Day―or any day.

• GREAT FOR THE MOTHER WHO HAS EVERYTHING: Can't think of the perfect present for Mom? This ticket booklet is a unique and fun gift, and also a fabulous way to give experiences―like a family fun activity or a favor that lets her take a load off―that she's sure to love.
• EASY BUT THOUGHTFUL GIFT: Gifting gold! This is a perfect last-minute gift for moms, whether for birthdays, Mother's Day, or just because.
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• INCLUDES: booklet with 12 gold foil-stamped perforated tickets

Find out if your cat is Pussolini or Mother Purresa In ancient Egypt cats were viewed as gods and in modern day they are no stranger to worship as the internet's favourite animal, but have you ever stopped to consider the true nature of the smug little creatures we so willingly welcome into our homes? Is your cat a dazzling Dolly Purrton in the making? Or a hateful Hannibal Lickter waiting to strike? Find out with this killer purrsonality quiz. With 16 personality profiles and tips on how to live in harmony with your cat, whatever their result, find out if your furry housemate dreams of world peace or world domination.

This one-of-a-kind, hand-painted Darth Vader statue in a classic Force-choke pose, complete with a customizable display stand and a booklet of the Sith Lord's most chilling and inspirational quotes, is an essential totem for Star Wars fans or anyone wishing to master the dark side of the Force.

The Heart's Journey is the tale of a heart that encounters pain and suffering only to be healed by the power and security of love. Artist Judy Pelikan's lovingly rendered illustrations depict the human heart's strength and capacity for love so persuasively that no words are needed. This miniature book - back in print by popular demand - is the perfect gift for anyone who needs to remember that the heart always emerges triumphant.

Yaaaaaaas! Inside you is a fierce, flawless and fabulous queen. Own it! Filled with sassy statements and empowering quotes, this small yet ferocious book will make you want to go out there and slay that sickening realness!

The perfect partner for lovers of the nation's favourite TV reality lovefest. Since day dot, Love Island has had its finger on the pulse of modern dating. Through the endearing chaos of infectious one-liners, fanny flutters and dramastic chats the reality show has well and truly turned our heads. An intriguing blend of catchy lingo, cringe-worthy clangers and hilarious trademark quips has established the villa as a melting pot for Britain's best banter. Collected here - like one huge, game-changing Love Island text - are the pearls of wisdom that has made the show an instant classic. A witty and amusing reminder of the words and phrases coined by the glamorous islanders over six series, this book allows the reader to crack on while reflecting on some of the most memorable, outrageous and entertaining moments from the show. Whatever your type, this little guide to Love Island gets all our favourite moments and characters between the (paper) sheets! As Tommy says, refreshify your memory. 'There's 206 bones in the body, you wanna give me another one?' Ellie Brown practices her chat-up lines, Series 4, 2018. As seen on mirror.co.uk, 19 June 2018, by Jenny Desborough. 'Life is a test and love is the prize...' Tommy Fury gives profound advice to Curtis Pritchard, Series 5, 2019. As seen on realitytitbits.com, 12 July, 2019.

Allie Esiri's beautiful gift anthology, A Poet for Every Day of the Year, is the perfect introduction to 366 of the world's greatest ever verse writers. Perfect for reading aloud and sharing with all the family, it is bursting at the seams with familiar favourites and exciting new discoveries. Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti and Emily Bronte sit alongside Roger McGough, Wendy Cope, Imtiaz Dharker, Leonard Cohen, Sylvia Plath and Ocean Vuong. Each of the 366 poems features a small introduction that gives a sense of who the writer was, and not just the greatness of their work. Some offer insightful biographical details or key historical context, while others may provide quirky, humorous anecdotes. The day-to-day format of the anthology invites readers to make poetry a part of their daily routine, and makes sure that they discover something inspirational, life affirming, provocative, moving or entertaining each and every day.

The ultimate travel companion for voracious voyagers.

Do you yearn for a life off the beaten track? Brought to you by Wanderlust, the original travel magazine, this bite-sized guide is jam-packed with trivia, facts and quotes to help cure even the most serious cases of itchy feet. Find out which country has a museum dedicated exclusively to Pot Noodles, which country has more islands than any other nation and which holiday destination you're likely to prefer based on whether you're an extrovert or an introvert. With inspiring quotes from seasoned travellers, The Little Book of Wanderlust is the perfect gift for jetsetters and journeyers.

If you know a pearfect numpty who needs a bit of sage advice, chia them up with this little book of upbeat and adorkable fruit puns. #youokalehun? About the series This cute and colourful series of fruit-pun-filled gift books are the perfect pick-me-ups for you, your friend or your partner in crime. Do you need to avocuddle, or are you grapeful for someone who's a bit of a melon? Then share the clove with these little books: AvoCuddle, WhataMelon, You are my Raisin for Living, Don't Give a Fig, I am Grapeful, You are 24 Carrot Gold. *veg, nuts and seeds are fair game

Warning: this puzzle book may cause enjoyment and momentary loss of grumpiness The world has gone to hell in a handbasket and everyone around you is a fool. What you need is something to take your mind off it all. Grumble your way through these word searches, sudokus, crosswords, spot the differences, quizzes and mazes and you’ll find your crabbiness melting away – until you get stumped by a silly anagram, that is!

JAMES FELTON'S "ASSHOLES" IS OUT NOW The perfect Christmas gift! With his trademark brand of bulldozer-banter, Twitter legend James Felton guides you through the most morbidly fascinating facts you'll then wish you could forget. Ever wondered why the chainsaw was invented?* How authorities dealt with a beached whale back in ye olde days of 1970?** Or what being a human decanter entails?*** Then you've come to the right place! Within these pages you'll find the maddest, strangest and downright grossest stories from history, nature and science that you don't want to know. (Except secretly you really do you masochistic, beastly person you.) Illustrated, painfully funny and drop-your-jaw ridiculous, this is trivia from the cesspit of time that you won't be able to stop reading once you start. *To aid childbirth. **They exploded it with 100 times too much dynamite and rained blubber down on unsuspecting people and buildings. ***Decency prevents us from answering this one here. You'll have to buy the book to find out.

The Dalai Lama is one of the most renowned and loved spiritual leaders in the world. This book is one of a series of bite-sized introductions that make his writing accessible to everybody. In The Dalai Lama'a Book of Love and Compassion, His Holiness describes how to bring love and compassion into our daily lives. He explores the fundamentals of the Buddha's teaching, from basic advice on how to love more fully to the importance of compassion. Whoever you are, whatever you believe, this book has something for you. Simply and clearly, The Dalai Lama explains: The need to balance spiritual and material values. Compassion as the basis for human happiness

Supper for one? Whether you're a career girl, eccentric bedsitter or wild bachelor, this vintage 1950s cookery gem is the essential guide to dining in solitude (with a new foreword by Bee Wilson).

The Career Woman (who buys a chicken as a treat)
The Bedsitter (who experiments with newfangled gadgets)
The Old Lady (who feeds her menagerie of pets)
The Schoolboy Moocher (who makes toffee and wallows in grapes)
The Bachelor (who learns to stockpile food)

Meet the experts in cooking alone . . .

'Every servantless man and woman should read her.' Truth

Supper for one? Cooking Alone (1954) is a delicious miniature compendium of tales inspired by a cast of eccentric solitary characters. Brimming with entertaining anecdotes, recipes (rabbit with aubergine and prunes, anyone?) and top tips (ever wondered how to store ice cream in a bedsit?), Kathleen Le Riche is a witty, charming guide to the single life. Reissued with a new foreword by Bee Wilson, this vintage delight is a hymn to the pleasures of dining solo.

Do you love playing wordle? Do you want to test your skills with a unique evolution of the game? If you do, then you will love this collection of wordle puzzle chains is ideal for you to do anytime, anywhere. In Wordle Tumble each answer to each puzzle forms the first line of the next one. The puzzles will get progressively harder. If you get stuck, you can use the solution to a later puzzle to work backwards. In the Extreme section, the puzzle chains will run over a double page spread to give wordle addicts a unique, fun, and interactive collection of brain-teasing puzzles, that can be played offline and will entertain for hours and hours. These mind-melting puzzles are graded from Easy to Extreme. Puzzlers must guess what the correct word is, deducing from previous words in the grid what letters go where. A clue means there is only one correct solution to each puzzle, and answers can be found at the back of the book. Whether you are looking for puzzle practiceto train your brain, or seeking a screen-free offline alternative to online puzzles, or a wordle challenge like no other this collection will have you enthralled. Perfect for commuters, keen puzzlers and all ardent wordle fans, and suitable for children and adults, this book is the perfect gift for anyone who can't get enough of the sensation puzzle game and wishes they could do more!  

Something to be happy about: This mesmerizing bestseller is revised and updated. Originally published 25 years ago (happy anniversary ) from a list that Barbara Ann Kipfer started making as a child, it s the book that marries obsession with happiness. And it now has 2,000 fresh and more current reasons to be happy: Rabbit tracks in the snow. Kiteboarding and kitesurfing. Caramel gelato.Scoring super-high on a Scrabble turn. Babies burping. Summer storms. White cupcakes with multicolored sprinkles. Big red barns. 20 minutes all to yourself. No opinions, no explanations, no asides, no footnotes, editorializing, or proselytizing. Just the simple premise of a list of things that make us smile. With its chunky shape, striking black-and-white cover, and 100 whimsical illustrations by Pierre Le-Tan, the new 14,000 Things is an irresistible catalog of good thoughts completely updated to reflect today s world and an uplifting gift for people of all moods and all ages."

Explore ideas, consider the big questions and learn life lessons in your garden. Gardening is an innately thoughtful as well as practical pastime: planning ahead, imagining how plants will grow, deciding what will make a 'good' garden, wondering at the beauty of flowers and noticing how ecosystems work. This delightful and engaging collection of essays illustrate how many philosophical ideas arise naturally in gardeners' everyday work. Growers by their nature are in fact already philosophers: existentialists who try to live and work by their own rules in a garden; stoics who put up with slug damage again and again, and try to work in harmony with nature; and practical quantum scientists who witness incredible processes going on in plant cells beneath the ground. In Philosophy for Gardeners, Kate Collyns uses aspects of gardening to introduce and explore a range of philosophical ideas and schools of thought; cultivating a greater understanding and appreciation of intriguing concepts, propagated from science, evolution and aesthetics through to politics, economics and ethics. Broken into four sections, Soil, Growth, Harvest and Cycles, each section explores questions of philosophy through the lens of the garden. A fascinating read, this book is as perfect for students of philosophy as it is for gardeners, filled with thought-provoking reflections on life, being and existence.

Where's your sense of adventure? Everything tastes so much better when it's cooked over hot coals or on an open fire. If you want to get back to nature and spend a few nights under the stars, all you need is the right kit, an adventurous streak and this essential cookbook. The Camping Cookbook contains over 60 recipes to enjoy in the great outdoors from hearty breakfasts and one pot wonders to brilliant barbecues and delicious drinks. With this cookbook and a portable stove, barbecue or fire pit, you can forget the stale sandwiches and tinned beans of the past, and learn to eat in style, whatever the weather. Recipes include: * Camping Marinades, Seasonings and Rubs * Campfire Nachos * Mexican Chilli Fried Eggs with Avocado Mash * Greek Style Charcoal-Grilled Lamb * Sticky Sausage Hot Dogs * Foraged Campfire Risotto * Toffee Apple Pan Crumble * Spicy Marshmallow Hot Chocolate * Hot Campfire Toddies

The ideal gift for su doku enthusiasts. If you like to live dangerously and push beyond your mental comfort zone, steel yourself for The Times' toughest Ultimate Killer puzzles. A bumper collection of more than 360 puzzles for hard-core solvers. Selected from The Times these puzzles will challenge the sharpest minds. Includes Deadly-level Killer puzzles, and Extra Deadly, to really test your limits: this is the only place you'll find such a torturous collection in a single book. These puzzles are not for the fainthearted, they use the same 9x9 grid as Su Doku, and have an added mathematical challenge. The aim is not only to complete every row, column and cube so that it contains the digits 1-9, it is also necessary to ensure that the outlined cubes add up to the same number as well. But unlike with previous books, there is no chance to ease yourself in with Easy, or even Tough puzzles: this book is the Ultimate Killer Su Doku - completely deadly. Puzzles in this collection are taken from Times Ultimate Killer Su Doku Books 5, 6 and 7.

This is a book for the independent and adventurous-minded man. It offers useful but often long-neglected skills and imparts wisdom gleaned from many sources, including servicemen, explorers, mountaineers, sailors and adventurers of every kind. Here, among many other manly virtues, the reader can learn how to: - Navigate by the sun and stars - Tickle a trout - Survive a sandstorm - Safely cross a swollen river - Land a light aircraft - Cope with suspected poisoning - Break up a dogfight In an age when people are less and less self-reliant, Man Up! shows how, with a little forethought and a lot of good sense (and just a few handy implements), coupled with sound background knowledge and the right attitude, difficult and potentially risky situations can be confronted and dealt with. Cheerfully written and admirably concise, the book reaches back to the knowledge and experience of yesteryear, when help was never just a mobile call away, GPS didn't exist, and toughness - mental as well as physical - and independence were valued far above technology. Whether lighting a fire in a downpour, treating a broken limb or harvesting food from the wild, Man Up! will teach you these skills, and many more.

'In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.' - Margaret Atwood. Through evocative passages and quotes inspired by the countryside, this stunningly packaged book offers a rare opportunity to slow down, step back and receive the natural restorative power of nature. The contemplative words will transport you to a space of quiet reflection as you simply sit... and be. 'Soon will the high Midsummer prompts come in Soon will the musk carnations break and swell Soon shall we have gold-dusted snapdragon Sweet-William with his homely cottage-smell And stocks in fragrant blow Roses that down the alleys shine afar And open, jasmine-muffled lattices' ... - Mathew Arnold, 'Thyrisis: A Monody to Commemorate the Author's Friend, Arthur Hugh Clough.

Illuminating, enriching and wholly delightful, inside you'll find more than 500 stirring quotes to inspire you, enrich you and enchant you. Whether you're hoping to revisit some of cinema's greatest moments, rediscover a much-loved writer or simply to explore new music, this wonderful box set is the perfect treat for any lover of the arts. Sample Quotes: 'A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.' - George R.R. Martin 'I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.' - Ludwig Van Beethoven 'If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.' - Louis Armstrong 'Cinema is a matter of what is in the frame and what's out.' - Martin Scorsese Contents: Book 1: Books - A celebration of writing, reading and the power of the written word to educate, enlighten and entertain us. Inside there are beautifully crafted lines from some of the world's finest authors, quotes that express the joy of reading and writing, as well as wonderful passages from some of the greatest books ever written. Book 2: Music - From the classical era to modern day, you'll discover a curation of lines from composers, musicians and writers. Find out what music means to those who love it most, the classical musicians, composers and the music devotees. Covering the sheer breadth of musical tastes, it inspires you to play, listen and explore new music from all around the world. Book 3: Movies - Explore the power of cinema to challenge, inspire and change our moods from movies made by the world's best filmmakers and actors. Unearth rousing quotes from skilful filmmakers, find fresh viewing inspiration and enjoy lines from some of the best movies ever made, covering all decades and genres and revisiting some of cinema's greatest moments.

The perfect flower girl gift to celebrate the importance (and fun!) of being the littlest bridesmaid at the wedding! For the sweetest girl in the bridal party, The Most Special Flower Girl takes you on an adventure to discover all the best things about being in a wedding. Try on a twirly dress, carry pretty flowers, smile big for pictures, walk down the aisle, and have lots and lots of fun! An adorable wedding party gift for any niece, daughter, family member, or other future flower girl to understand the duties and importance of their job on the special day. The Most Special Flower Girl is perfect for: Learning the special role a flower girl plays-change the names to fit your family and walk through all the steps of the big day to prepare! A gift for the littlest member of your wedding party-with a page dedicated to write a special note from the couple An adorable prop for the perfect photo-op or special moment between the couple and their favorite little girl A fun bridesmaid proposal present for your future flower girl Celebrate the fun and love with this adorable wedding keepsake that little girls will be able to keep with them forever.

Widely regarded as one of the greatest bowlers in the history of cricket, Shane Warne was a giant of his time. A sporting hero and national icon, young cricketers today are inspired by his leg spin legacy. Perhaps the most charismatic personality of any sport, Shane Warne's triumphs restored craft and subtlety to the foreground of the game. Taking the highest number of Test wickets when he retired - 708 at 25.14 apiece, he was chosen by Wisden as one of the five outstanding players of the 20th century. The rebel who used his injury in his early years to build strength in his wrists and upper body, his unwavering optimism and unassailable competitive spirit became a defining feature of the leading man of cricket. Packed with quotes and insights The Little Book of Shane Warne explores the man who, by unanimous consent, pitched the ball of the century, and earned his place in the pantheon of exceptional players. 'He was the best of them all and you can't say any more than that.' Michael Parkinson 'People put down their beer every time Shane Warne came on to bowl.' Ian Chappell