A Year in Numbers

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***A Strong Words 2023 Book of the Year***’A highly enjoyable and serendipitous read!’ – Rob Eastaway, bestselling co-author of Headscratchers: The New Scientist Puzzle BookDid you know:-Only around 1 …

Headscratchers

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‘A fantastic and varied collection of problems authored by some of the best puzzle setters around’ – Alex Bellos’A book of delightful puzzles. It’s just as good as you’d expect.’ – Tim Harford’A marve …

Maths Tricks to Blow Your Mind

From the infamous ‘Hannah’s sweets’ exam question to percentages ‘life-hacks’, viral maths problems seem to capture the public’s imagination without fail. This is often because they blow people’s mind …

Maths Tricks to Blow Your Mind

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What is 4% of 75?Can you calculate 60 + 60 x 0 + 1?Which is bigger, an 18-inch pizza or two 12-inch pizzas?Join award-winning maths presenter Kyle D Evans on an entertaining tour of viral maths proble …

The Cat and The City

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A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick’Ingenious … touching, surprising and sometimes heartbreaking.’ Guardian’If you’re itching to read a new novel by David Mitchell … try this.’ The Times_______________In …

A Brief History of Puzzles

From ancient riddles to modern Sudoku, people have been fascinated by puzzles. Whether they are seen as a glorious waste of time, a harmless way to spend a train journey or a valuable way of exercisin …

Rewording the Brain

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A guide to cryptic crosswords and how they can help increase brain power.DA, whose crosswords appear with fiendish regularity in The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, is the scourge of cryptic crossw …

Eddie Jones

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The first biography of the enigmatic coach who has completely transformed the England rugby team.After Eddie Jones began coaching England’s rugby team, they won 22 of their next 23 matches. The side t …

It's All a Game

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Board games have been with us longer than even the written word. But what is it about this pastime that continues to captivate us well into the age of smartphones and instant gratification?In It’s All …

Riddledom

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Oedipus Rex was an early riddle-cracker, unravelling the Sphinx’s enigma of man, though this ‘complex’ character was not alone. Riddles are enshrined in the Bible’s parables, the verdicts of Solomon, …

Puzzles and Words 2

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Puzzles and Words 2 is the second pocket-sized puzzle book from Australia’s best known puzzle-maker and word nerd, David Astle.There are over 175 original puzzles from anagrams to riddles and quizzes …

Console Wars

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In 1990 Nintendo had a virtual monopoly on the video game industry. Sega, on the other hand, was a faltering arcade company with big aspirations and even bigger personalities. But that would all chang …

Cluetopia

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Crosswords are not as old as you think. The first one appeared a century ago, the little square keeping in remarkable shape. Cluetopia is here to toast the centenary, whizzing you through 100 years of …

Pretty Girl In Crimson Rose

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A little gem of a memoir… The book adds up to more than a sum of its parts and lingers in the memory long after the final page. — Sunday TelegraphHalf a million people a day do it in the Telegraph. …

Vulnerable in Hearts

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Sandy Balfour’s father and the game of contract bridge were both conceived in 1925. Vulnerable in Hearts spans the eight decades of Tom Balfour’s life and the same period in the epic story of bridge’s …

The Joy of X

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Award-winning Steven Strogatz, one of the foremost popularisers of maths, has written a witty and fascinating account of maths’ most compelling ideas and how, so often, they are an integral part of ev …