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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

WHAIAO presents: Books of Mana - Panel Discussion

Aug 8th | 11:00am - 12:30pm

Tūranga

Panel discussion with Jacinta Ruru, Angela Wanhalla, and Jeanette Wikaira on ‘Books of Mana: 180 Māori Authored Books of Significance’.

The Booker Prize 2026

The 2026 Booker Prize longlist has been announced. Read the longlisted titles, and check out our list of winners and shortlisted titles.

 

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

"Bourke Street Bakery" by Allam, Paul
"Let's Eat Meat" by Parker Bowles, Tom, 1974-
"Salads for All Seasons" by Stacey, Alexandra
"Solo Food"
"Asian Smoke" by Ho, Andrew
"The Student Kitchen"
"Let's Eat Meat" by Parker Bowles, Tom, 1974-

Gardening

"Q Is for Garden" by Chamarette, Jenny
"The Forager's Garden" by Shufer, Vickie
"The Garden Through Time" by Rutter, Thomas (Writer on gardens)
"The Twilight Gardener" by Leendertz, Lia
"Crisis Gardening"
"How to Grow Medicinal Herbs" by Minton, Vanessa
"The Forager's Garden" by Shufer, Vickie

Home organisation

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

Sewing

"The Point of the Needle" by Burman, Barbara
"Threads" by Kemsley, Madeleine
"Workwear"
"A Year of Zero Waste Sewing" by Haywood, Elizabeth M.
"Fit for Knits" by Hjerpe, Malena, 1985-
"Gertie Sews Glam Knits" by Hirsch, Gretchen, 1979-
"Threads" by Kemsley, Madeleine
 

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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