Books are one of the few things in life that are as desirable once used as they were beforehand. Display a book and you give visitors to your home a glimpse into the mind of their host.

Now while your book collection might be of the highest calibre, if your bookshelf looks like it was knocked up in half an hour by a first-year CDT student, you're not going to make the right impression.

What you need is something playful, a little entertaining even. What you need is the Leaning & Pushing Bookends. Sculpted from stone resin, the bookends provide a weighty, sturdy leaning post for your classic volumes and add some class to your study/living room/toilet without unnecessary frills.

Should you want to spice up your CD or DVD collection, the bookends are right at home here, delivering stabilizing pressure to the complete works of Celine Dion or your exhaustive Wonder Women anthology. Go on, lads, put your back into it…