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Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi

July 2025

 

Welcome to our Home & Living newsletter.

Letting you know about interesting library events, books and other resources related to crafts, gardening, cooking and more!

 

Staff List

New for you - Food & Drink - July 2025

Find healthy eating, exotic cuisine, ideas for family meals, and baking in our latest cookbook picks.

 

Library events

The Great Stash Swap

Aug 23rd | 11:00am - 2:00pm

Upper Riccarton Library

Bring along your unwanted fabric, haberdashery, buttons, wool, lace, trims, paints, brushes, zips etc then choose what you want to take away

The Great Stash Swap

Nov 26th | 9:00am - 11:00am

Aranui Library

Bring along your unwanted fabric, haberdashery, buttons, wool, lace, trims, paints, brushes, zips etc then choose what you want to take away

Ingrid Horrocks' All her lives is available now on Libby

No wait! Read the Ockham Award prize winner for fiction today. All her Lives by Ingrid Horrocks is available now in Libby.

International Booker Prize 2026

Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated from Mandarin Chinese by Lin King is the winner of the International Booker Prize 2026.

 

Coming soon

Keep an eye out for these on order titles.

Casting Flowers: A Step-by-step Guide To Creating Beautiful Botanical Art by Juliet Roberts And Rachel Dein

Casting Flowers encourages even the most basic beginners to revel in the ability to record a plant's texture, pattern, and delicacy in fine detail, creating compositions as small as a single stem.

 

Glorious Gardens: Private Edens of the World's Leading Interior Designers by Dara Caponigro

Glorious Gardens offers a glimpse into the outdoor sanctuaries that serve as sources of endless inspiration for renowned interior designers.

 

House Rules: 100 Ways to Feel at Home by Emma Beryl Kemper

Emma Beryl Kemper defines 100 insightful rules to help you transform your space into a home you'll never want to leave.

 

New titles

Cookbooks

"Bake your Sweet Time" by Effby, Tat
"Tom's Diner" by Smallwood, Tom
"A Kitchen in Italy" by Thorisson, Mimi
"High Fibre Heroes" by Fearnley-Whittingstall, Hugh, 1965-
"The Ultimate Plant-based Cookbook" by Cobacho, Sarah
"BBQ" by Oliver, Jamie, 1975-
"Tom's Diner" by Smallwood, Tom

Gardening

"For the Love of Houseplants" by Mitchell, Tanner
"The Money-saving Gardener Containers" by Lautenbach, Anya
"In Nature's Slipstream" by Bruce, Carol
"The Compact Garden" by Lopez, Char
"The Easy Garden" by Griffiths, Michael
"Let's Go Native" by Hessell, Guy
"The Money-saving Gardener Containers" by Lautenbach, Anya

Home organisation

"Danshari" by Yamashita, Hideko
"Rightsize your Home" by Woolrych, Belinda, 1973-
"Let Go" by Yosumi, Daisuke
"Sort your Life Out"
"Tidying up" by Fuqua, Ea
"Getting Sh*t Done" by Day, Roo
"Rightsize your Home" by Woolrych, Belinda, 1973-

Sewing

"Stitch" by Rich, Jen
"Testing Textiles"
"Shoes"
"Sewing ABCs"
"Textiles"
"Sewing Is My Art"
"Testing Textiles"
 

Staff List

Change for the better: Plastic Free July

Find out how to do your bit in the global movement that helps millions of people be part of the solution to plastic pollution.

 
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