Playfair cricket annual 2025The indispensable pocket guide to the cricket season. There are also sections on women's cricket and the major domestic T20 competitions from around the world, including The Hundred. For any cricket fan, the season is never complete without a copy of Playfair to guide you through it all.

'Footprints in the Woods' is John Lister-Kaye's account of a year spent observing the comings and goings of otters

It is a story of journeys and realisation

Cyclist Beryl Burton dominated her sport much as her male contemporary Eddy Merckx

Philip Kerr has fashioned a totally convincing thinking man's thriller in the great tradition of Eric Ambler and Graham Greene

and their targets are Vadim

Tamsin begins the slow journey back from the brink

he's delving into the incredible world of forests

In the garden

and teachers understand that wellbeing is an inside job

or pausing at a quiet waterfront - she encounters the rich reality behind the shining beauty of Vermeer and Rembrandt

If we could not measure then we could not observe the world around us

Convinced that the killing is a gangland execution