Food, Glorious Food: vicbooks bake-off & end of trimester celebration - Thursday 12th November, from 10am. Visit either of our shops after 10am and enjoy baked treats inspired by the recipes in three new books of New Zealand favourites:  The Aunt Daisy Cookbook edited by Barbara Basham $29.99 Hodder Moa
Compiled by Aunt Daisy's daughter and first published in 1968, this iconic cookbook has been reprinted more than twenty times. Packed with well-tried recipes, it has both practical and nostalgic appeal. Buy now
A Treasury of New Zealand Baking edited by Lauraine Jacobs $55.00 HB Random House
A who's who of New Zealand food writers, bakers and chefs have contributed their versions of slices, muffins, loaves, cakes and other baking secrets to this project. All royalties from the book go to the Breast Cancer Foundation of New Zealand. Juliet can personally vouch for the quality of the contents - she's a particular fan of Lois Daish's Blueberry & Yoghurt scones. Buy now  A Second Helping: More from Ladies, A Plate by Alexa Johnston $45.00 Penguin Books
Her first collection of home-baking recipes was so popular that has Johnston has released a selection of more delicious goodies, this time including a section about home-made sweets like hokey-pokey, ginger ice and Russian fudge. Buy now
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| Other recent New Zealand cookbooks include Go Fish by Al Brown $65.00 HB Random House Buy now; Cook by Alison Gofton $45.00 Penguin Buy now; Culinary Journey by Peter Gordon $75.00 HB Viking Buy now and Richard Till Makes it Easy by Richard Till $34.95 David Bateman Buy now. |
 Tender: A Cook & His Vegetable Garden by Nigel Slater $59.99 HB Fourth Estate
We are eagerly anticipating the arrival of Slater's latest book, due mid-November. In it he brings vegetables centre-stage: he presents ideas for side-dishes and salads, but also as the main event in themselves. Whether he is discussing simple flavour combinations or providing instructions for more elaborate concoctions, waxing lyrical about the joys of gardening or decrying commercial food practices, Slater's prose is always good-humoured and inspiring. Buy now |
| Other recent cookbooks include Movida Rustica by Frank Camorra & Richard Cornish $69.99 HB Murdoch Books Buy now; Manna From Heaven by Rachel Grisewood $75.00 HB Allen & Unwin Buy now ; Stephanie Alexander's Kitchen Garden Companion $140.00 HB Lantern Buy now; The River Cottage Family Cookbook $55.00 Hodder & Stoughton Buy now and (in December) The River Cottage Everyday $75.00 HB Bloomsbury by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Buy now and Jamie's America by Jamie Oliver $75.00 HB Michael Joseph Buy now. |
| New from Victoria University Press |
 Maori & the State: Crown-Maori Relations in New Zealand / Aotearoa 1950-2000 edited by Richard S Hill RRP $60.00 vicbooks price $54.00 VUP
This book looks at the main interactions between Crown & Maori in recent history, paying particular attention to the assimilationist policies of the 1950s and 1960s, and the beginnings of bicultural awareness arising from the Maori Renaissance of the 1970s. Buy now |  Rethinking Women and Politics: New Zealand & Comparative Perspectives edited by Kate McMillan, Elizabeth McLeay & John Leslie RRP $50.00 vicbooks price $45.00 VUP
Has the introduction of MMP and other social and political changes in New Zealand made a difference to women's involvement in and engagement with local and national government? Investigating the women's movement since the 1970s, this book asks why the issues defined as urgent in Catt & McLeay's 1993 book Women & Politics in New Zealand still have not been adequately addressed. Buy now |
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 Art That Moves: The Works of Len Lye by Roger & Shirley Horrocks $59.99 AUP
A well-illustrated, in-depth discussion of Len Lye's art, and his theories about "kinetic art", written by his assistant and biographer. The book comes with a DVD consisting of four of Lye's films, footage of his "tangible motion sculptures" and a short documentary by Roger & Shirley Horrocks. Buy now
 Alphabet of the Human Heart by Matthew Johnstone & J Kerr $24.99 Pan
A visual guide to the ups and downs of life, from the creators of the Living With A Black Dog and I Had A Black Dog, books which promote an understanding of depression. Buy now
|  Encircled Lands by Judith Binney $79.99 HB Bridget Williams Books
Tuhoe's quest for formal recognition of their "nationhood" and internal self-governance has a long history. Binney documents the first 100 years from European contact of the Rohe Potae (encircled lands of the Urewera). Their remote nature was initially a protective blessing for inhabitants, but proved too tantalizingly forbidding - and thus a potentially enriching challenge - for outsiders. Buy now
 Backroads by Sam Hunt $49.99 HB Craig Potton Publishing
Sam Hunt offers a series of vignettes on his life as a poet. He reflects on his time spent performing poetry on tours including venues of all kinds; recollects his friendships and adventures with other poets, publishers, artists, musicians and his dog; and he discusses inspiration and desperation. Buy now
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| New Zealand Fiction | |
 Magpie Hall by Rachael King $36.99 Vintage
When her grandfather dies, Rosemary inherits his taxidermy collection, begun by her great-great-grandfather. She returns to Magpie Hall to sort through the legacy and to escape from the difficulties of writing her thesis on Victorian novels, but finds herself entangled in the mysteries of her own family. Did her ancestor Henry Summers really murder his first wife? Why do rumours suggest his collections sent him mad? And will Rosemary's twin obsessions - tattoos and taxidermy - land her in similar strife? Buy now |  Penguin Great Ideas $11.95 each
Penguin have added twenty more titles to the previous three series selections of short books on various philosophical, political and ideological topics. Perfect stocking fillers.
Books by authors attending Writers & Readers Week 2010 are available in store, with more titles arriving soon. Keep an eye on our noticeboard in store for reviews and other information about these books and authors. |
| Also new this month: What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell $37.00 Allen Lane Buy now; Superfreakonomics by Steven Levitt $38.00 Allen Lane Buy now; Shrinking the World by John Freeman $40.00 Text Buy now; Jaquie Brown's Guide to Everything $34.99 Random House Buy now; White's Aviation: Classic Photography of NZ From the Air by The Turnbull Library $60.00 Godwit Buy now; Trowenna Sea by Witi Ihimaera $37.00 Raupo Buy now |
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