7) Secret Files: The Inside Story of International Rescue, by Chris Bentley, Stephen Cole and Graham Bleathman

Simply superb for the Thunderbirds fan in your life.

I do wonder if F will absorb the fact that his role models all have science and technology degrees from well-known universities.

He has already worked out that in less than three years, Jeff Tracy will be born.

(On 2 January 2009. It says so in the book, so it must be true.)