The Guardian Quick Crosswords 1: A collection of more than 200 entertaining puzzles (Guardian Puzzle Books)

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Boatman’s puzzles are witty and ingenious – and he never forgets that his job is to delight the solver.The notes on your 96th puzzle include the unlikely phrase “This is the last fish-based puzzle in this collection”.

In the meantime, our next tome is a collection of thoughts about puzzles, along with the puzzles themselves. Michael Gilbert himself, and Close Quarters in particular, belong to neither the “cosy crime” nor the “hard-boiled” camp. There are plenty of fish to choose from; they often have short names amenable to using in anagram clues, and we tend to find them funny. In the meantime, our next book is The Twelve Quizzes of Christmas by Frank Paul, which we’ll discuss in November. Afrit’s puzzles for the Listener often received zero correct entries and a few years after Have His Carcase was published, he set Listener 397, which had a Playfair square in the middle of the grid and made reference to Lord Peter.An image of seaside rock no doubt entered my subconscious, because two puzzles about types of rock emerged much later. As addictively enjoyable as they are compulsively difficult, get ready for hours of fun with these high-quality puzzles. This book celebrates the world's favourite word puzzle by recounting the history of it, alongside examples of puzzles and words of wisdom from puzzle setters, crossword editors and members of the public who have racked their brains to find the solution to that elusive clue. I can’t sit down with a blank sheet of paper and know that in two or three hours I’ll have a puzzle, and I won’t start one until I know that I have at least three or four ideas for clues that will establish a theme.