The ideal gift for puzzle book enthusiasts this Christmas.

If you relish a serious mental workout, this collection of 100 brain teasers will demand your very best lateral thinking skills and mathematical rigour to solve. These puzzles will amuse and perplex in equal measure.

But do not worry, full, detailed solutions are found at the back of the book so you can get into the head of these fiendish setters!

These mental puzzles require serious application, imagination and skill to solve. Some demand a logical approach, others a methodical, mathematical mind.

Are you up to the challenge of solving these rigorous but entertaining mathematical puzzles?