Part of an exciting series of sturdy, square-box 500-piece jigsaw puzzles from Flame Tree, featuring powerful and popular works of art. This new jigsaw will satisfy your need for a challenge, with the beautiful Swans Flying over the Reeds by Robert Gillmor. This 500-piece jigsaw is intended for adults and children over 13 years. Not suitable for children under 3 years due to small parts. Finished Jigsaw size 490 x 360mm/19.3 x 14.2 ins. Includes an A4 poster for reference. One of the UK's best-known wildlife artists, Robert Gillmor MBE is also an ornithologist, illustrator, author, and editor, not to mention founder member of the Society of Wildlife artists. He has illustrated over 150 books, designed a series of stamps for Royal Mail, and helped to create the RSPB's logo. Gillmor received the RSPB Medal in 2001, and in 2015 was awarded an MBE for his services to art and conservation.

Hard on the brain, easy on the eyes! Challenging, baffling, and absorbing, these cryptograms are easy to read in large-size print. The strings of seemingly meaningless letters are actually carefully coded messages that will test and stimulate your wordplay skills. You don't have to be a professional code breaker or super spy to figure them out, and there's no need to struggle while reading them. All you have to do is enjoy solving the puzzles!

1000-piece jigsaw puzzle of an iconic cathedral illustration from book designer and artist Brian Cook. Immerse yourself in the colourful world of Brian Cook's vision of England. This bright and brilliant vintage illustration of Gloucester cathedral featured on the dust jacket of the 1934 book The Cathedrals of England by Charles Fry. Now available as a jigsaw puzzle for the first time to provide you with hours of mindful entertainment. The box includes 1000 jigsaw pieces in a sustainable paper bag. Once completed, the jigsaw puzzle measures 70 x 50 cm. The book jackets that Brian Cook designed for B. T. Batsford through the 1930s and 1940s are much-loved, timeless pieces of illustrative art and highly collectable. The Landscape of England from the same popular heritage book series is also available as a jigsaw puzzle.

1000-piece jigsaw puzzle of an iconic landscape illustration from book designer and artist Brian Cook. Lose yourself in the rolling hills based loosely on the headlands of Great and Little Hangman, North Devon. This inviting scene, available as a jigsaw puzzle for the first time, featured on the dust jacket of the 1933 book Landscape of England by Charles Bradley Ford. The illustration was also exhibited at the Arts Council Exhibition 'Landscapes in Britain 1850-1950' at the Hayward Gallery in 1983. The box includes 1000 jigsaw pieces in a sustainable paper bag. Once completed, the jigsaw puzzle measures 70 x 50 cm. The book jackets that Brian Cook designed for B. T. Batsford through the 1930s and 1940s are much-loved, timeless pieces of illustrative art and highly collectable. The Cathedrals of England from the same popular heritage book series is also available as a jigsaw puzzle.

1000-PIECE JIGSAW - Piece together the world of 20th-century Harlem and fill the gaps in your knowledge as you go with a comprehensive poster guide AUTHORITATIVE TEXT - Text by Professor Davarian L. Baldwin, urbanist, historian and cultural critic THE PERFECT GIFT - Die-cut pieces, sturdy box, and illustrated poster for maximum gift appeal AMAZING ARTWORK - Noa Denmon's intricately drawn cityscape is bursting with minute detail GOOD SIZE - Completed puzzle measures 48.5 x 68 cm (19 x 27 in.) Step back in history to one of New York's most vibrant moments in this jigsaw puzzle abuzz with the artists of the Harlem Renaissance. Set in Harlem in the first decades of the twentieth century, the puzzle includes such famous names as Langston Hughes, Fannie Hurst, Jean Toomer, Carl Van Vechten, Zora Neale Hurston, W.E.B. Du Bois, Josephine Baker, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Gladys Bentley. From fine artists and musicians to novelists, poets, and thinkers, The World of the Harlem Renaissance is a who's who of people who laid the foundations of New York culture in the twentieth century...

Volume 2 in the mega-popular Wednesday-only crossword puzzle omnibus series from The New York Times! On the fence? You must be a Wednesday crossword puzzle solver! This great big collection of 200 not-too-easy, not-too-hard crossword puzzles from The New York Times will get you through the midweek slump in no time. Features: -200 medium-level Wednesday puzzles -Sturdy size and great value -Puzzles edited by crossword legend Will Shortz

Challenge yourself at home with word puzzles Calling all word search wizards! Here are 300 entertaining new puzzles that will have you hunting for hours. Inside you'll find a wonderful world of thematic word searches to explore, with some real brain teasers along the way. Wherever you are these are the puzzles for you! So sit back, relax, and prepare for a non-stop word search extravaganza! Solutions appear in the back.

Trina Turk Multi Puzzle Set by Galison includes three 250 piece puzzles featuring Trina Turk's colorful op-art prints, creating a challenging and fun puzzle experience. When completed, turn these puzzles into a framed triptych! * Box: 9.25 x 7 x 2", 235 x 178 x 51 mm * Set of Three 250 Piece Puzzles * Puzzle Size: 8.5 x 15", 220 x 380 mm * Color-coded on reverse for sorting * Includes 3 Puzzle Inserts

Part of an exciting series of sturdy, square-box 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles from Flame Tree, featuring powerful and popular works of art. This new jigsaw will satisfy your need for a challenge, with Pieter van den Keere's World Map, 1607. This 1000 piece jigsaw is intended for adults and children over 13 years. Not suitable for children under 3 years due to small parts. Finished Jigsaw size 735 x 510mm/29 x 20 ins. Includes an A4 poster for reference. Pieter van den Keere (1571-c. 1646) was a Flemish engraver, publisher and globe maker who came to England as a Protestant refugee. Settling in Amsterdam in 1593, he continued to work and began engraving a series of miniature county maps for the British Isles Atlas in 1599. His works also include a map of Ireland, urban panoramas of Utrecht, Cologne, Amsterdam and Paris, as well as a collection of world maps.

Much more than just a puzzle book - a comprehensive collection featuring every major variant of sudoku ever created.

Over 25 major sudoku types . . . nearly 150 different variants . . . and almost 500 puzzles, all created especially for this book, including Jigsaw Sudoku, Killer Sudoku and multi-grid Samurai Sudoku.

No other collection of Sudoku comes close. This is without doubt the most definitive
volume of Sudoku variants ever compiled, with full instructions and solutions included.

Praise for "The Mammoth Book of Fun Brain Training" by the same author:
'The puzzles are fresh and lively' - Will Shortz

What can be found in the Vatican's Secret Archive? How many books did Charles Darwin's library aboard the Beagle hold? Which library is home to a colony of bats? Bursting with potted histories, quirky facts and enlightening lists, this book explores every aspect of the library, celebrating not only these remarkable institutions but also the individuals behind their awe-inspiring collections. From the ancient library at Alexandria to the Library of Congress in Washington DC, A Library Miscellany explores institutions both old and new, from the university library to that of the humble village. It opens the door to unusual collections such as herbaria, art libraries, magic libraries and even the library of smells, and charts the difficulties of cataloguing books deemed to be subversive, heretical, libellous or obscene. Packed with unusual facts and statistics, this is the perfect volume for library enthusiasts, bibliophiles and readers everywhere.

Part of an exciting series of sturdy, square-box 500-piece jigsaw puzzles from Flame Tree, featuring powerful and popular works of art. This new jigsaw will satisfy your need for a challenge, with the beautiful Allotments, by Judy Joel. This 500-piece jigsaw is intended for adults and children over 13 years. Not suitable for children under 3 years due to small parts. Finished Jigsaw size 490 x 360mm/19.3 x 14.2 ins. Includes an A4 poster for reference. This idyllic image is quintessential Judy Joel, evoking the community spirit and charm of all her work. Judy was brought up in Chichester, West Sussex. After leaving the BBC where she worked as a Production Assistant, she started to paint purely for her own and her children's amusement. Out of the blue she was offered an exhibition in London and her paintings are now in collections all over the world. Somewhere in each of her paintings is the white-haired figure of her Mum with a dog. In 1992 she and her husband moved to the lovely unspoilt fishing village of Mousehole in Cornwall and from 2005 until 2021 ran The Little Picture gallery there. In April 2021 they formed The Joel Gallery in Abbey Place. Judy is a member of the Association of British Naive Artists Association (ABNA) and especially enjoys painting commissions of life stories, weddings and people's houses.

A revised and expanded reissue containing over 1,200 brain-teasing questions on the legendary works of J.R.R. Tolkien, published to coincide with the release of the third and final The Lord of The Rings movie. How many Hobbits joined the Fellowship of the Ring? What colour is the Orcs' skin? Why did Gandalf have difficulty in opening the West-door of Khazad-dum? Who betrayed Berien and Luthien to Thingol? What was Farmer Giles' full name? The worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien, from the saga of Middle-earth to a brief visit to Wootton Major, are so rich and varied that they inspire legions of followers of different ages. This peerless revised and expanded quiz book offers over 1,200 questions and answers, including easy starter questions and more difficult tie-breakers, to test the range and depth of your knowledge. And whereas every right answer will confirm your mastery over your subject, every wrong answer will be a learning experience all of its own!

1000-PIECE PUZZLE featuring the women of Greek mythology as you've never seen them before. Finished puzzle measures 680 x 485mm SPOT FAMOUS FIGURES AND MYTHICAL MOMENTS, as you build the puzzle - can you find Pandora and her jar, or Medusa with snakes for hair? INCLUDES A FOLD-OUT POSTER featuring the stories of the real women of Greek myth from best-selling author and classicist Natalie Haynes STURDY & ATTRACTIVE BOX perfect for gifting and storage Think you know these women? Put the pieces together and you will start to think again. In this beautifully illustrated 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle, rediscover the lives and stories of the women of Greek myth, portrayed by author, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes with illustrator Natalie Foss. A large fold-out poster of the artwork accompanies the jigsaw and also includes an original essay from the author, expanding on the stories, relationships and context surrounding these infamous women. Featuring mortals and goddesses alike, from Medusa and Medea to Helen, Euridice, Aphrodite, Phaedra, Artemis and more, uncover the truth about the women of the classics.

Need a rest from a long and busy day? Got a moment to spare? On a long journey? Then dip into this travel-sized, large print companion, containing loads of top word searches. Organized by theme, with a wide range of delightful word search teasers, from the natural world to the home, the universe to transport, chiefs, kings and presidents. There's something for everyone, and it's bound to keep you busy. When you've finished a puzzle, you can check out the answers in the back.

Need a rest from a long and busy day? Got a moment to spare? On a long journey? Then dip into this travel-sized, large print companion, containing loads of top word searches. Organized by theme, with a wide range of delightful word search mysteries, from the natural world to the human world, technology to biology, comedy to classic literature. There's something for everyone, and it's bound to keep you busy. When you've finished a puzzle, you can check out the answers in the back.

Got a moment to spare? On a long journey? Then dip into this compact, travel-sized book, containing loads of top word searches. Organized by theme, with a wide range of delectable word search mysteries, from transport to nature, exploration to architecture, countries to continents. There's something for everyone, and it's bound to keep you busy. When you've finished a puzzle, you can check out the answers in the back.