AWW Eating Together
ACP Books, ISBN 9781863969604, NZ RRP $39.99, Paperback

AWW Eating Together aims to seduce people back to the family table by the pure delightfulness of the recipes. There are all-day breakfasts, Sunday lunches, Friday night DVD food, recipes to teach kids to cook, food for camping trips and celebration food. There are also after-school snacks, fast midweek meals, barbecues and food that Grandma used to cook. It’s a celebration of food to share with family and friends.

The Genius of Design
By Penny Sparke
Quadrille Publishing, ISBN 9781844007530, NZ RRP $65.00, Hardback

This landmark book takes a unique, original and engrossing approach to design. Whether or not we are consciously interested in it, design is omnipresent; it affects and influences us all in every aspect of our lives. The Genius of Design illuminates what design is, how it works, and how it has shaped the world we live in.

North South
By Glenn Colquhoun and Nigel Brown
Steele Roberts, ISBN 9781877448638, NZ RRP $34.99, Paperback

An extra ordinary collaboration between two of New Zealand’s most stirring and popular artists: poet Glenn Colquhoun and painter Nigel Brown. North South goes deep into the tribal roots of our country’s imagination, where the northern gods of Glenn’s Celtic heritage engaging with the atua Maori of the south, and creates a new mythology for this country.

Wallpaper: the Ultimate Guide
By Charlotte Abrahams
Quadrille Publishing, ISBN 9781844007417, NZ RRP $75.00, Hardback

In this stunning book Charlotte Abrahams gets to the heart of the exciting contemporary wallpaper scene. Wallpaper: the Ultimate Guide is divided into the three main areas of design – pasted pictures, fabulous florals and architectural illusions. Illustrated throughout with stunning wallpaper designs and beautiful rooms, this book really is the ultimate guide to wallpaper.

A Christmas Carol
By Charles Dickens
Arcturus Publishing, ISBN 9781848372399, NZ RRP $12.99, Hardback

No Christmas is complete without Charles Dickens’ classic morality tale in which rich miser Ebenezer Scrooge is shown the error of his ways after visits by the spectral Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet To Come. This edition comes complete with the original illustrations by radical artist John Leech and a new introduction. Everybody should own a copy of this great family favourite.