Hugh Green : the story of an Irish emigrant who never left home by Hugh Green

$15.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good

A memoir of Hugh Green.

The Loving Stitch: A history of knitting and spinning in New Zealand by Heather Nicholson

$45.00 NZD

Category: Craft | Reading Level: very good

Winner of the 1999 Montana New Zealand Book Awards Montana Medal for non-fiction. This unusual and engaging history book focuses on New Zealand women and their intimate and sometimes subversive relationship with wool. It deals especially with New Zealand women's lives, duties, leisure, creativity and craft since knitting came to New Zealand 185 years ago with the first missionaries in 1814. Knitting simultaneously demands and hones mental agility, manual dexterity, listening skills, mathematical ability and creative expression. It is a task as absorbing as reading a good book, as demanding as playing the piano, as meditative as a good massage, as mentally challenging as chess, and as creative as the person holding the needles. And yet, men and women today have been known to play down their partiality to knitting as if it was something of which to be ashamed. ...Show more

Thrift to Fantasy: Home Textile Crafts of the 1930s - 1950s by Rosemary McLeod

$45.00 NZD

Category: Maud’s Picks | Reading Level: very good

Rosemary McLeod's collection of handcrafts was exhibited at The Dowse in 2002-2003. This book shows items from the exhibition and others from her collection, telling the social and sometimes personal history of their makers - women and girls who dreamed about a life beyond the front gate, and worked tho se dreams into reality, using simple materials they had to hand. From rag rugs to felt handbags, from patchwork quilts to sacking aprons, from cheery tea cloths to topsy-turvy dolls, they provide a unique insight into women's art and creativity in a new country finding its way. "Thrift to Fantasy" provides an important and unexpectedly moving contribution to New Zealand design and craft history that will become a must-read for many New Zealand women. "Thrift to Fantasy" is not only a seductively designed and illustrated book, but also one that uses crafts such as embroidery and knitting to provide a revealing insight into the personal lives of threes generations of 20th-century Kiwi women." - New Zealand Listener "It's a fabulous book, worthy of a place on every woman's bookshelf, but will be of special significance to those with an interest in hand crafts and the social and domestic evolution of the New Zealand woman... It's well worth the price and a diamond in the rough of many of today's offerings." - Southland Times "Valued craft is woven between the history of New Zealand women of the time. Women's lives have changed and if we did not have special people such as Rosemary McLeod all our historical handcrafts would be lost." - Waikato Times First published 2005. ...Show more

Wood Carving: Techniques, Concepts and Projects for New Zealanders by Gale, Len

$30.00 NZD

Category: Craft | Reading Level: very good

Woodturning in New Zealand by Brian Massey

$30.00 NZD

Category: Craft | Reading Level: very good

ICONZ by Belinda Ellis

$10.00 NZD

Category: Graphic Design | Reading Level: very good

ICONZ is an encyclopaedic collection of 64 illustrated graphic icons cataloguing New Zealand's popular culture and identity. The book takes an affectionate look at what New Zealanders hold dear, and is intended for the local market, nostalgic expats abroad and visiting tourists alike. An abundance of ex isting material brandishing 'kiwiana' in various guises - not all, but much of it kitsch - led Belinda Ellis, one of the country's leading graphic designers, to create this iconic look at New Zealand identity. Her intention was to create a recognisable New Zealand brand that would truly stand out. The project's point of difference is in its quality of design and production standards, as well as in its uniformity of look. ICONZ pushes past 'kiwiana', to depict iconic New Zealanders, Maoridom, cuisine, products and pastimes, as well as comparable aspects of our flora and fauna. The suite of icons is to be for commercial publication and application under the trademark, ICONZ. This book is intended to serve as the foundation of the project, showcasing the icons in an illustrated book with high production values. Concurrently with the book's publication, and under the same trademark, the icons have been applied to a range of retail merchandise: art-quality prints and stationery; clothing and accessories; household items; even chocolates. ...Show more

The Dwarf Who Moved and Other True Stories from a Life in the Law by Peter Williams

$15.00 NZD

Category: Law | Reading Level: very good

A memoir in anecdotal form by New Zealand's pre-eminent criminal barrister. In his time as a criminal defence lawyer in the New Zealand courts, Peter Williams QC has seen it all. From the days when abortion, homosexuality and even telling fortunes could see a person hauled before the courts, to sensatio nal cases of wrongful imprisonment and police corruption, he has witnessed the defining moments in the evolution of our modern judicial and penal systems. In this rich and wise collection of memoir, anecdote and forensic analysis our pre-eminent courtroom advocate recalls the people (including Ronald Jorgensen, Arthur Allen Thomas, "Mr Asia", James K Baxter, Winston Peters and many more) and the cases (both celebrated and obscure) that have defined his remarkable career, and illuminates the ways in which a legal system mirrors its society, for good and bad. Fearless, astute and compassionate, Peter Williams proves - beyond reasonable doubt - that truth is nearly always stranger than fiction. ...Show more

The White-Faced Heron by Sandra Morris; Geoff Moon

$12.00 NZD

Category: Children Non-fiction | Reading Level: very good

The Story of Suzanne Aubert by Jessie Munro

$20.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good

This work is a biography of the French nun, Suzanne Aubert, who helped New Zealand's poor and neglected between the 1860s and her death in 1926. It examines her work with the Maoris and Pakeha, her setting up of a Catholic congregation and her work in Wellington after the turn of the century.

Official Record of the New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition Dunedin 1925-1926 by G. E. Thompson

$45.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: good-very good

New Zealand Butterflies - Identification and Natural History by George W. Gibbs

$40.00 NZD

Category: Natural History | Reading Level: good

Pills & Potions at the Cotter Medical History Trust by Claire Le Couteur

$14.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

In this fascinating and by turns alarming book, Claire Le Couteur has researched the background to some of the popular medical remedies in New Zealand's medical history, based on items found in the collection of the Cotter Medical History Trust. The Cotter Trust was established in Christchurch by retire d surgeon Pat Cotter, with the aim 'to collect, preserve and display artefacts of a medical nature'. It now holds the largest collection in the country of biographical notes of doctors, dentists, technical, managerial, administrative and nursing staff who have worked in Canterbury. This is augmented by a museum of historical medical implements and equipment, medicines and pharmacy equipment, photographs, documents, memorabilia and books ..."Consumption, asthma, whooping cough? You need Congreve's Balsamic Elixir ...43.8% proof spirit alcohol ..." Pills & Potions is a collector's dream. ...Show more