Blame Space (Richard Galland)

The spaceship's been sabotaged, the computer's on the blink and the Captain's dead, but it's not my fault! Quick-playing card game of making sure someone else carries the can. With the "Suicide Mission" mini-expansion: £13.50 special offer £10.00 (or make me an offer...).
 

Carthago: Merchants & Guilds (Ralph Bienert and Bernd Eisenstein)

Clever development of Porto Carthago, this has players as traders in ancient Carthage. As well as buying and selling, they aim to gain influence in the city's guilds. The winner will be whoever's done best across both: £26.00 special offer £20.00 (or make me an offer...).
 

CVlizations (Jan Zalewski)

This is a quick-playing, card-based game of civilisation development, where the goal is to produce the 'happiest' culture. The endearing artwork is in the same style as CV, though there's no real connection. However, it's also good fun: £18.00 special offer £13.00 (or make me an offer...).
 

Da Yunhe (Björn Müller-Mätzig)

Rebuilding the Grand Canal of China is the aim of the game, with plenty of opportunity to mess with other players' plans. Drafting action cards from a single set makes this hard to do and provides another intriguing game: £25.00 special offer £19.00 (or make me an offer...) (official English rules included).
 

Domus Domini (Heinz-Georg Thiemann)

Whose monastery can provide the most food to the Abbey? Except that it's the monastery that provides the least food that gets the most money to develop further. But which bit of the monastery to develop? My vote's on the brewery! £37.00 special offer £28.00 (or make me an offer...).
 

Key Flow (Sebastian Bleasdale, Richard Breese, Ian Vincent)

Taking its inspiration from Keyflower, this is a demanding card game centred on "the great river Key Flow". Over four seasons, players compete to develop villages and farms and to trade goods along the river. It is a hefty game in its own right: £35.00 special offer £27.00 (or make me an offer...).
 

Mystery Rummy 2: Murders in the Rue Morgue (Mike Fitzgerald)

Rummy-based card game based on Edgar Allan Poe's story. Players collect and meld sets of evidence cards, but also "feed the Orang-utan", providing bonus cards for the player who empties their hand first. Entertaining fun: £15.00 special offer £10.00.
 

Niña & Pinta (Ragnar Brothers)

Billed as "the first Quantum game", this has players exploring and developing three parallel versions of the New World – one for each of the ships in Columbus's expedition. And each player has their own version of the three ships! Plenty to think about and lots of decision making in another excellent game from the Ragnars: £33.00 £20.00 special offer (or make me an offer...).
 

Nomads of Arabia (Kris Gould)

A fascinating game where players catch and herd animals across the ever-changing sands of Araby. The aim is to sell your animals for a good price – without falling off the board: £15.00 special offer £10.00 (or make me an offer...).
 

Noria (Sophia Wagner)

Another monster, which I thoroughly enjoyed at Spiel. Set on and around the flying island of the title, there's an awful lot going on as players develop their production, expand their options and try to gain the best 'political' position. It's a cracker: £30.00 special offer £20.00.
 

Papà Paolo (Fabrice Vandenbogaerde)

I've had to wait for the second printing to stock this terrific game of pizza delivery. It gives players an awful lot to think about and plenty of decisions to make without melting any brain cell s. I thoroughly enjoy it: £30.00 special offer £20.00.
 

Railroad Revolution (Marco Canetta and Stefania Niccolini)

The theme is constructing railroas across America, but actually laying track is just one of the things players can be doing. There are stations to build, locomotives to acquire, telegraph offices to open and more. The trick is choosing the actions that will beat your opponents: £36.00 special offer £27.00.
 

Reykholt (Uwe Rosenberg)

Another appealing game from Herr Rosenberg. This time the setting is Iceland as players try to grow fruit and vegetables (in greenhouses, natch) to tempt the tourists. £38.00 special offer £30.00.
 

Rome: City of Marble (Brett Myers)

Players lay tiles to construct different types of building in neighbourhoods around three of Rome's seven hills. These boost various aspects of the city's culture and development and, of course, the players who contributed to their construction.

For 2-4 players, aged 12+, playing time 75 minutes: £10.00 (or make me an offer...).
 

Scotland Yard (various)

Yet another classic, this is the original hidden movement game. Master criminal Mister X dodges around London, avoiding the detectives who try to work out where he's got to. A terrific family game and still a challenge for gamers: £22.00 £18.00 (or make me an offer...).
 

Sheepdogs of Pendleton Hill (Max Michael)

This game from the Stratamax collective is professionally produced to a high standard. It is a simple game with brightly coloured wooden pieces: small sheep and tall shepherds for each player and a black, black wolf! It's an entertaining game that isn't as light as you might think: £30.00 £20.00 (or make me an offer...).
 

Ultimate Werewolf Inquisition (Legend Dan Hoffman)

A deduction game that takes Werewolf as its starting point, but doesn't knock players out of the game. Players are inquisitors investigating werewolf attacks, but have themselves been infiltrated by the werewolves... clever stuff from the Legend: £16.00 £12.00 to clear (or make me an offer...).