With years of chocolate crafting experience, who wouldn’t love a Thorntons chocolate Christmas countdown… with a delicious chocolate hidden behind every door. Also inside are two vouchers, one for a jewellery cleaning kit and another for a jewellery travel box.

With twenty-four mini books collected together in a beautiful hardback presentation case with tie ribbon, The Gruffalo and Friends Advent Calendar Book Collection is perfect for sharing together every day of advent. Open the doors to reveal pop-up scenery, stickers and dancing characters that skate around the Music Box base as you count down to Christmas! Whoever came up with Lego advent calendars is now rich enough to build their own life-size spaceship. Or, if you want to play it safe, then we have a fantastic collection of children's advent calendars from their favourite brands and characters, including Marvel, Disney and The Gruffalo.Enjoy a book every day with this fantastic festive collection, including activities, crafts, colouring and cookery based on the family-favourite picture books, The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom, The Snail and the Whale and more.

You are looking at well over 20kg of biscuits, preserves, cakes, hot drinks, confectionery and prosecco in 24 drawers, standing almost two feet high. Axel Scheffler is a star illustrator whose instantly recognizable, warm and witty illustrations have achieved worldwide acclaim and numerous awards.Anyone lacking a sweet tooth is cruelly neglected by the majority of advent calendars and this savoury salvo from the 225 year-old London cheesemongers is like the cavalry coming over the hill. With twenty-four mini books collected together in a beautiful presentation case with tie ribbon, The Gruffalo and Friends Advent Calendar Book Collection is perfect for sharing together every day of advent. If you can get your hands on one, you’ll be able to add the glow of victory to the youthful complexion afforded by its contents. With a loop to hang it from a bed or door and 24 soft pockets to fill with sweets or little toys (not included), The White Company’s fluffy penguin is the only calendar on our list that you’d actually want to sleep with. The only downside is each day only has one of each, so you’ll either have to use it as a 12 day calendar, or save your gin and tonic for every other day.

In addition to his picture books, Axel is the illustrator of wonderful novelty and gift books for Macmillan, such as the bestselling The Bedtime Bear, The Tickle Book and Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes. Given the huge interest in fidget toy calendars, you’d think premium toy brands might have entered the market but it’s still dominated by Chinese suppliers. Being endlessly personalisable, iced biscuits are a popular gift – but to keep 24 of them fresh, you really need a tin. This is the perfect advent calendar for fans of the Twisted Tales series who are still wondering what if.In fact it might work best as a workplace advent calendar, with a treat each day for the whole company to share. Definitely not the advent calendar you remember from your childhood, this is a serious investment in festive over-indulgence.