How to keep the peace: find puzzles that occupy but don’t frustrate. Well, not too much. Try Mind Puzzles (Guinness, £6.99, lSBN 0 85112 668 5) by Robert Eastway and David Wells for a collection on logical, numerical and, as it says in the blurb, “other puzzles”. Good explanations of solutions supplied at the back.
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