Gift guide: Last minute shopping

National Geographic

With high definition, double-page spreads from some of the world's most talented wildlife and portrait photographers, a subscription to National Geographic magazine gets you closer than ever to the world's greatest wonders. You'll read fascinating articles on new scientific discoveries and cultural topics, all expertly written to engage experienced experts and curious amateurs alike.

This science and nature magazine covers everything you've always wanted to know about past civilisations, natural resources and endangered animals, whilst also giving you a rundown of topical issues affecting the world in which we live, from hydraulic fracturing to the international effort to limit the effects of climate change.

National Geographic subscribers receive free digital access editions for iPad, iPhone and Google Play and access to the National Geographic archives.

Subscribe today for £33.00 and save 61%




Puzzler

Still going strong after 40 years, Puzzler offers a great selection of stimulating puzzles from the nation's top compilers. Puzzles range from more relaxing challenges such as word-search, Number Jig and Dot-to-Dot, to the more challenging cryptic crossword, Numerical Crossword and Kakuro.

Among the magazine's iconic puzzles are Round Tour, featuring an intricately woven grid with fiendish clues; and Alphabetical Jigsaw, a crossword in which you must solve a set of rhyming cryptic clues and determine the position of the answers in the grid as if completing a jigsaw.

Subscribe for £29.90 and save 11%




WIRED

This is a great magazine for anyone interested in current affairs and culture with a scientific twist. Taking a close look at state-of-the-art developments in science, technology and the Internet, a Wired magazine subscription investigates how these discoveries and inventions have an impact on every aspect of our lives, from national health to international politics.

You'll find intelligent debates on a number of science and technology topics, including robots, prosthetics and physics, as well as a unique insight into the future developments that will shape our lives in the years to come.

A subscription to WIRED magazine provides a broad range of topics including technology, ideas, design, architecture, culture, business, the economy, politics and philosophy!

Subscribe to WIRED and get interactive iPad, iPhone & Android editions FREE!

Subscribe for £19.00 and save 37%




The London Review of Books


The London Review of Books is widely considered as one of the best literary magazine on topics of literature, the arts, culture, history, politics and philosophy published in the world today.

Breadth is key for this title as it prides itself on covering the most seminal current debates with a scholarly approach and never shies away from challenging a conventional viewpoint. Each issue has up to 15 long-form essays on diverse topics and encourages its contributors to develop ideas; you can enjoy writing from leading thinkers including Alan Bennett, Hilary Mantel, Mary Beard and John Lanchester.

The LRB is fiercely independent and unashamedly outspoken. Make sure you are part of the conversation by subscribing to the London Review of Books.

Subscribe to London Review of Books today to receive a FREE 2021 calendar!

Subscribe for £22.99 and save 60%

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