Bookshelf

Reads to inform and inspire.

Sustainable Garden

Marian Boswell, Quarto UK, $33

An inspirational and practical guidebook to maintaining a more environmentally friendly outdoor space at home. Includes step-by-step projects such as making your own fertilisers, saving seeds and creating raised beds with reused timber.

Better, Bolder, Di erent

Kate Hall, Allen & Unwin, $40

Environmental activist and educator Ethically Kate shows how to embrace sustainable living in all facets of life and shares clever consumption tips.

Simple Fancy

Two Raw Sisters: Margo and Rosa Flanagan, Allen & Unwin, $45 The Two Raw Sisters are back! This time with an inspiring collection of plant-based recipes that are easy to make whether you’re entertaining or cooking for one.

The Unkillables

Jo Lambell, Welbeck, $28

Forty resilient houseplants for new plant parents. Lambell shares her houseplant knowledge so that even the biggest plant serial killers can have an abundant indoor garden.

And Everything Will Be Glad to See You: Poems by Women and Girls

Selected by Ella Risbridger, Nosy Crow, $45

From well-loved poets, including Wendy Cope and Lucille Clifton, to newer voices such as Triska Hamid and Amineh Abou Kerech, this outstanding collection from talented anthologist Ella Risbridger boasts poems for every mood.

The Other Way

David Trubridge, self-published, $99

A love letter to the land and sea, acclaimed artist David Trubridge o ers a profound meditation on our relationship to the natural world.

My Indian Kitchen

Ashia Ismail-Singer, Bateman Books, $55

A cookbook filled with well-known traditional Indian dishes alongside a range of exciting, new Indian tastes and textures, all of which are easily achievable by Kiwi home cooks.

In Search of Perfumes

Dominique Roques, Welbeck, $46

A fragrant journey across the world, revealing the mysteries of the perfume trade. Roques is the head of sourcing at Firmenich, Switzerland which provides the world’s leading perfume brands with natural fragrances and extracts.