books

Now reprinted, the Isobel Gabites classic, The Native Garden: Design Themes from Wild New Zealand

For goodness’ sake, Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society makes you want to visit the Channel Islands right away.

An essential New Zealand preserving bible for your bookshelves, Digby Law’s Pickle and Chutney Cookbook

Back in print after nearly ten years, many of the best vegetable recipes seem to have origins in Digby Law’s Vegetable Cookbook.

Andrew Motion was Poet Laureate in the UK and his very English memoir is In the Blood

Master Your Workday Now!: Proven Strategies to Control Chaos, Create Outcomes, & Connect Your Work to Who You Really Are builds on Steven Covey’s concepts of time management.

A not very comfortable read of how An English Boy in Nazi Germany is easily moulded into the perfect Hitler Youth recruit.

Use your pantry, your garden and your brain to cut your grocery bill with The $21 Challenge.

A glossy guide to what to do when in the garden Gardening in New Zealand Month by Month by Dennis Greville.

I’ve got a very old edition of The Complete Herbal Handbook for Farm and Stable by Juliette de Bairacli-Levy, to which I often refer.

An appealing Kiwi book of traditional baking ‘Ladies, a Plate‘.

The French take on how to maintain the perfect figure without deprivation in French Women Don’t Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure.

Australian but still much applicable in New Zealand - One Magic Square: Food Plot Designs for All Seasons in Temperate Climates.

Xanthe White’s Organic Vegetable Gardening is an attractive new addition to the New Zealand organic library.

A recent addition to the organic library, Organic Gardening Basics: Successful Organic Gardening in 5 Easy Steps by Bob Flowerdew.

Sophie Gray with her Destitute Gourmet: Everyday Smart Food for the Family

Cuisine Food Editor, Ray McVinnie’s Eat

Donna Hay’s No Time to Cook: Fresh and Easy Recipes for a Fast Forward World

Jasper Jones: A Novel is an Australian 10pm Question with hints of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’.

From the doyenne of slow cooking, Joan Bishop’s New Zealand Crockpot and Slow Cookbook.

An unlikely hero who gets his just revenge.
The Story of the Little Mole Who Knew it Was None of His Business.

Pie (Edible) is the history of the pie (humble or otherwise).

Tamar is the story of resistance in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands

Ghost story and fairy tale for young adults Keeper introduced me to the beautiful game. Go the Phoenix!

Also for young adults, The 10PM Question is appealing and captivating for any reader.

Clarissa Dickson-Wright’s first memoir, Spilling the Beans

The recollections of the utmost cruelty from the childhood of one of the UK’s first female, black judges. Ugly

Nigel Slater’s recollection of England in the seventies is
Toast: The Story of a Boy’s Hunger

Stephen Fry’s memoir, Moab is My Washpot