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We think books and CDs make great presents, as you can really delve into your other half’s interests and desires, or set the soundtrack for a particular event, or just relive some interesting times from your history together.

These are our current top choices for top present giving!

Perfect Presents for Fabulous Foodies

Cherry Cake & Ginger Beer

A great read for: those who like their cooking with a big pinch of nostalgia

Reason to love: it's got a recipe for Famous Five Gorgeous Ginger Beer! Lashings for us please

Leon: Ingredients & Recipes

A great read for: if she would like to rustle up healthy, fabulous tasting food in a flash

Reason to love: she can now recreate the Leon Breakfast Power Smoothie at home, which is a great start to the day!

Cooking for Friends: Food From My Table

A great read for: Gordon Ramsay fans looking for slightly simpler food from the super chef

Reason to love: no vegetarian quiches in here!

Great British Winter

A great read for: those girls who look forward to the nights drawing in

Reason to love: this will see some serious comfort food being rustled up with any luck!

Possibly not for those abstaining - gifts for girls who enjoy the good life

Champagne Cocktails

A great read for: girls who like their fizz, but fancy mixing it up a little!

Reason to love: are you kidding? What's not to love if she's mixing the cocktails!

Making Sense of Wine Tasting

A great read for: those who woud like to know their plonk from their vino

Reasons to love: she might stop buying pink wine

Spit or Swallow

A great read for: living healthily with wine

Reasons to love: it's a great read that makes learning about wine great fun.

The Wine Diet

A great read for: those of us have unknowingly been on this for years.

Reasons to love: a diet with wine in it? What's not to love?

Gorgeous Gifts for Glamorous Goddesses

Perfumes: The Guide

A great read for: girls who love, really love, real fragrance

Reason to love: fabulous, entertaining writing by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez. Anyone who can describe something as a screechy floral is okay by me!

A Guide to Looking and Feeling Fabulous Over Forty

A great read for: any woman inspired by Twiggy's timeless style and want to know the secrets of her wardrobe

Reason to love: what's not to love about Twiggy? Fabulous at fifty and getting better every year. We'll have what she's having!

The Goddess Experience: Custom-made for You

A great read for: any woman looking to live a fabulous life, this is a treat for wannabe goddesses

Reason to love: Grazia called it the "hot coffee-table read du jour". That can't be bad!

Two Lipsticks and a Lover

A great read for: any woman looking to unleash her inner French woman

Reason to love: well, she could become very stylish and invest in lots of lingerie, but do read the small print!

Natural Presents for Natural Women

Naturally Gorgeous: Essential Health & Beauty Secrets

A great read for: green goddesses interested in avoiding chemicals in their beauty routine

Reason to love: it's written by Charlotte Vohtz, the founder of Green People, so she knows what she is talking about.

A Good Life: The Guide to Ethical Living

A great read for: those looking for help and advice on small changes with big positive impacts

Reason to love: it's been fully updated and revised, with new suggestions and ideas. Good news, it still covers beer!

Using the Plot: Tales of an Allotment Chef

A great read for: the queen of the allotment to work out what to do with the tomato and courgette glut

Reason to love: Paul Merret writes with wry humour and brutal honesty, as well as providing 85 wonderful recipes

Imperfectly Natural Home

A great read for: those looking to make their homes sustainable, natural, healthy and eco-friendly in easy steps

Reason to love: written by Janey Lee Grace, from the Steve Wright Show, this is informative and practical, and takes into account the amount of juggling modern women do!

Gifts for the Yummy, and Slummy, Mummy

Mummy Said The F-word

A great read for: every mum, for the days when they wonder if they are doing it right!

Reason to love: it might be fiction, but it will most definitely have a ring of truth to it!

Sleep is For the Weak: The Best of the Mommybloggers

A great read for: any mum looking for the camaraderie of experience from others mums around the world

Reason to love: brilliant, amusing, funny writing from the blogosphere

Food for Talk Travel Deck: Conversation Starters for Families on the Road

A great read for: those moments when you manage to get all the family round the table to eat

Reason to love: this helps to bring back the conversation to the table, so turn off the TV and get chatting with one of these!

Relax: 52 Brilliant Little Ideas to Chill Out

A great read for: those many mums juggling way to much

Reason to love: the ideas are practical, fun and easy to do, so not adding more to her stress levels! Serve this book with a hot bath and a glass of champagne!

Executive Gifts for the High Flyer

16 Weeks to Your Dream Business: A Weekly Planner for Enterpreneurial Women

Great read for: those who really want to make a go of it themselves and are always full of ideas

Reason to love it: it's a step by step guide, very easy to work through and help her hopefully come up with an amazing idea that works!

Getting Things Done: How to Achieve Stress-Free Productivity

Great read for: any multi-tasking, job and life juggler in need of a bit of a helping hand

Reason to love it: if she puts some of this into practice, there'll be more time for everything, including you!

How to Have Kick-Ass Ideas

Great read for: kick starting ideas, about pretty much anything, from work to play

Reason to love it: fantastically well written, very easy to read and a lot of fun too!

Passive Aggressive Notes: Painfully Polite and Hilariously Hostile Writings

Great read for: even just imagining when she might write something like this!

Reason to love it: they are all real! Hope she reads you the best bits!

Gifts For Rock Chicks

St. Jude - The Courteeners

This indie Mancunian foursome have been busy since signing to Polydor, supporting The Coral and making some great tracks for this debut album. Particularly liking Not Nineteen Forever!

Songs From the Sparkle Lounge - Def Leppard

For some serious rocking, has to be the latest from Def Leppard. Their first album of original material since 2002, this is a return to their hard-rocking roots.

The Good, The Bad and the Queen

What more can you say? Damon Albarn, Paul Simonon from The Clash, Tony Allen and Simon Tong from the Verve. Got to be worth a listen if this is her taste.

Funplex - The B52s

Just in time for summer, you can see this latest album from the B52s being part of the soundtrack, in the same way so many of their other tracks have been!

Perfect presents for pop princesses

Life in Cartoon Motion - Mika

What's not to love about Mika? Stunning debut, going to be huge, catch onto this one early

Showgirl Homecoming Live - Kylie

We always loved her, and this shows you just why.

Beautiful World - Take That

Whether she cried when they split the first time or not, Take That are back and brilliant. If for not other reason, buy it for Shine

High Times: Singles 1992-2006 - Jamiroquai

Love or hate JK's hats, got to love the music.

Gifts from the Stage and Screen - the perfect present for the fabulous diva in your life

Dreamgirls

Responsible for one of those dream come true Oscar moments for Jennifer Hudson, it could have won on its music only. Let her find out why, plus the title might earn you a few prizes!

The Sound of Music - West End Cast

See how they solved a problem like Maria. Come on, she knows the words, she's going to sing along!

Dirty Dancing: Collectors Edition

Hard to believe it's 20 years since this came out, so let her rediscover why we all had the time of our life.

Marie Antoinette

Gorgeous looking film, and truly eclectic soundtrack. Everything from Vivaldi to Bow Wow Wow.

Upmarket Gifts for Classy Girls

The Tenor - Juan Diego Florez

Dubbed the next Pavarotti, but about three quarters of the size. Singing as good as his rugged looks.

Siempre - Il Divo

Like the Westlife of opera, Il Divo have conquered the world and this is likely to add to their success.

Karl Jenkins & Adiemus - The Essential Collection

No matter how many times you hear these bits of music, they are always stunning, and very relaxing.

Tutto Mozart - Bryn Terfel

My second favourite Welshman, but he sings a lot better than my favourite. Fab collection.

Just Chill - laidback gifts for chilled out girls

Beginners Guide to the Buddha Lounge

Some of the coolest international bar, club and chill tunes you're likely to hear on one compilation.

Simply Karma

If she's looking a little frazzled, this gives her 4 CDs of relaxing, spiritual music

Glidepath: Soothe the Spirit

Even the title makes us feel relaxed, but just wait till she hears the music

The Journey: Meditation Music

Perfect for her to get really chilled out to.

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