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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

New For You - Aotearoa New Zealand - June 2026

Have a taste of home-grown books! New Zealand new arrivals for this month. Fiction, Biography, Non-Fiction, and more.

New For You - Mystery & Thriller - June 2026

Fiction that keeps you guessing - danger, killers, and unexpected twists - a selection of the newest mystery and thriller 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

"European Peasant Cookery" by Luard, Elisabeth
"A Kitchen in Italy" by Thorisson, Mimi
"Szybko, zdrowo bez wysiłku" by Dobrowolska-Zrałka, Karolina
"The Ultimate Plant-based Cookbook" by Cobacho, Sarah
"Bake your Sweet Time" by Effby, Tat
"Tom's Diner" by Smallwood, Tom
"A Kitchen in Italy" by Thorisson, Mimi

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

Sewing

"A Year of Zero Waste Sewing" by Haywood, Elizabeth M.
"Textiles"
"Stitch" by Rich, Jen
"Testing Textiles"
"Shoes"
"Sewing ABCs"
"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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