No spy kit can be complete without the Mr iSpy Digital Camera Binoculars. You’ve got the sunglasses and the night vision goggles all that’s left to make you a master of espionage gadgetry is a set of bins with a built in camera. There are no fiddly controls to wrestle with as long as you’re in focus you just press a button and bam – you get a picture of whatever it is you’re looking at in glorious 1.3 megapixel detail. The fun doesn’t stop there – you can even shoot film. Of course it’s not just Bond wannabes that can enjoy this cracking binocular/camera hybrid – if you fancy yourself a bit of an amateur twitcher (that’s birdwatcher to you and me) these are great to start out with and they won’t cost you a fortune. Plus there’s the added benefit of not wasting time reaching for a camera if a lesser spotted shoe finch happens to land outside your hide.

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Price : £ 27.49

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No spy kit can be complete without the Mr iSpy Digital Camera Binoculars. You’ve got the sunglasses and the night vision goggles all that’s left to make you a master of espionage gadgetry is a set of bins with a built in camera. There are no fiddly controls to wrestle with as long as you’re in focus you just press a button and bam – you get a picture of whatever it is you’re looking at in glorious 1.3 megapixel detail. The fun doesn’t stop there – you can even shoot film. Of course it’s not just Bond wannabes that can enjoy this cracking binocular/camera hybrid – if you fancy yourself a bit of an amateur twitcher (that’s birdwatcher to you and me) these are great to start out with and they won’t cost you a fortune. Plus there’s the added benefit of not wasting time reaching for a camera if a lesser spotted shoe finch happens to land outside your hide.

• Gift – Boys Toys

Price : £ 27.49

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The devastating consequences of the slave trade in 18th century are explored through the powerful but impossible attraction of well-born Frances and her slave Mehuru. From the bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl. Bristol in 1787 is booming from its stinking docks to its elegant new houses. Josiah Cole a small dockside trader is prepared to gamble everything to join the big players of the city. But he needs ready cash and a well-connected wife. An arranged marriage to Frances Scott is a mutually convenient solution. Trading her social contacts for Josiah’s protection Frances enters the world of the Bristol merchants and finds her life and fortune dependent on the respectable trade of sugar rum and slaves. Once again Philippa Gregory brings her unique combination of a vivid sense of history and inimitable storytelling skills to illuminate a complex period of our past. Powerful haunting intensely disturbing this is a novel of desire and shame of individuals of a society and of a whole continent devastated by the greed of others.

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Get acquainted with a northern soul Jimmy Nail has been a household name since Auf Wiedersehen Pet hit our screens in the 1980s. since then his career as an actor and a musician has put on him on the silver screen alongside Madonna and given him a No. 1 hit single. Success on this astonishing scale was beyond the wildest dreams of the working class lad whose harsh childhood and brutal schooling put him on a collision course with Strangeways. But a short spell in prison helped propel Nail onwards and upwards. With the support of his friends and family it wasn’t long before Jimmy’s unique talents and single-minded determination brought him attention of a different kind and changed his life for ever. In A Northern Soul Jimmy Nail tells his own vivid story in this intriguing inspiring and sometimes confounding account of how one man rose to fame and fortune by refusing to be anything but himself.

Price : £ 8.44

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