REVIEW: Welcome to the second of our new literary reviews. With so many books published each month, it is often impossible to know just which books to take a chance on.

But we do the thinking for you, concentrating on those titles which, while they might be a little on the obscure side and will probably never make it onto the best sellers lists are, nevertheless, more than worthy of mention.

This week: Structural Package Designs.

Written by: Haresh Pathak

Published by: Pepin Press

Price: £9.99

Available from: Waterstones, Milsom Street, Bath.

Believe it or not, and you probably won't, this is one of Waterstones' more popular books (at least five are sold every month).

Twice now, after enquiring about its whereabouts on the shelves, staff have informed us they have in fact bought the book themselves.

Which does seem rather odd, as all the book contains is hundreds of pages of cardboard box designs. In short, think of a milk carton and all the intricacy of its invention... and multiply that by 400.

After borrowing one copy of the book and promptly losing it we discovered upon trying to borrow a second that the book had actually sold out (and there had been a whole display on show in Waterstones just days earlier).

Having said all that, there is something curiously hypnotic about this bestseller. So mind-numbingly dull are its page after page of box designs that you can begin to sense some kind of 'out-of-body' experience as you flip through.

It's therefore an ideal Christmas stocking filler for any student or pensioner.

Give them an old copy of a Blue Peter annual to boot and they'll doubtless be in seventh heaven.