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Drink Smart Cocktails by eds.
$10.00 NZD
Category: World Cookbooks
The concept and format have limitless opportunities and can be applied to a whole host of subjects, from food and drink to health, gardening to DIY. Innovative Contemporary Useful Practical Fun Great value.
Elegant Eating : Four hundred years of dining in style by Phillipa Glanville & Hilary Young (eds)
$50.00 NZD
Category: World History
Surveying the art of fine dining in Europe from the 16th century to the present, this is the first book to concentrate on the art of decorating the table, following the courses of a grand dinner from cocktails to dessert. From flowers and garlands to porcelain, silverware and centrepieces, the many diff ...Show more
Expressionism (Basic Art series) by Norbert Wolf & Uta Grosenick (eds)
$20.00 NZD
Category: artists biographies | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Expressionism is a style of art in which the intention is not to reproduce a subject accurately, but instead to portray it in such a way as to expressthe inner state of the artist. The movement is also associated with Germany in particular, and was influenced by such emotionally-charged styles as Symbol ...Show more
Fairburn and Friends by Dinah Holman; Christine Cole Catley (eds)
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
Perhaps never was a more remarkable group of people centred around any other single New Zealander than the friends of Rex Fairburn. This book celebrates these friends with pieces by their near and dear or by those who knew them well, which are affectionate but not uncritical. They add up to a unique pic ...Show more
Fashion Now by Terry Jones & Avril Mair (eds.)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fashion
Who's who and what's hot in the world of fashion Fashion Now is the first comprehensive anthology of contemporary fashion. Compiled by the style-savvy staff of the seminal monthly i-D, Fashion Now profiles the work of the 150 most important designers around the globe, focusing on not only the biggest ...Show more
Fashion Now 2 (O/P 20/11/08) by eds.
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fashion
The iconic British style magazine "i-D" delivers a guide to the world's most important designers.Fashion Now 2 is illustrated with the very best fashion photography and styling, extracted from the archives of the magazine that celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2008.
Fashion Now (Taschen Icon) by Terry Jones & Susie Rushton (eds.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fashion | Series: Icons Series
Secondhand. Fashion designers in the spotlight. Compiled by the style-savvy staff of the seminal monthly , Fashion Now highlights the work of over 90 designers around the globe, focusing on not only the biggest names but also the most exciting new talent. A to Z designer entries include exclusive inter ...Show more
Floating Worlds: Essays on Contemporary New Zealand Fiction by Anna Jackson & Jane Stafford (eds)
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
The ground-breaking New Zealand fiction of the last fifteen years has not attracted critical commentary beyond initial reviews, despite its success with readers both local and international, and despite its attracting major awards both local and international. Floating Worlds contains stimulating and in ...Show more
Four Letter Word : New Love Letters by Joshua Knelman & Rosalind Porter (eds)
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
Whatever happened to the love letter? Has the written word lost its charm in our digitally obsessed, speed-dating age? In this inspired and unique collection of new fiction, Joshua Knelman and Rosalind Porter have asked over forty celebrated writers to explore the potency and power of a classic - yet ne ...Show more
Fourteen Days: A Unique Collaborative Novel From a Star-Studded Cast of Writers by Margaret Atwood & Douglas Preston (eds)
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Led by Margaret Atwood, a star-studded cast create a dazzling, heartwarming response to the darkness cast by the pandemic. Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the pandemic, Fourteen Days is a dazzling, heartwarming novel with an unusual twist- each character has been secretly written ...Show more
Golden Weather : North Shore Writers Past and Present by Graeme Lay & Jack Ross (eds)
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
This collection celebrates the past and the present. Famous names, and others not so well-known, make 'The Shore', that fabled Auckland region, a living, integral character in stories and poems. For dipping into and for savouring Golden Weather presents a roll call of writers from the Shore including ...Show more
Grow Organic by eds.
$55.00 NZD
Category: Gardening general
A comprehensive, practical guide to organic gardening that explains and illustrates all the key organic principles and covers vegetables, fruit, ornamental plants, herbs and container gardening. This title has been fully adapted for the Australian market, sports a gorgeous new, locally-designed jacket, ...Show more