Ten tried and true finger food recipes from home cooking expert Jo Seagar. Jo Seagar's name is synonymous with stress-free recipes. She adores entertaining and cooking for friends, and always has a houseful of people staying. With this mouth-watering selection Jo shares ten of her easy finger food ideas, suitable for any occasion.

Ten tried and true baking recipes from New Zealand's much loved home cooking expert. Ever since she published her first cookbook, Jo Seagar has been the byword for fabulous home baking. Her recipes are easy, tasty, quick to prepare, utterly delicious and turn out looking beautiful. In this hand-picked selection Jo shares her ten best all-time baking favourites.

**LONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN AWARD. The tale of the glamorous and pioneering woman known as 'the Garbo of the Skies'.**1909. In Rotorua, New Zealand, Nellie Batten pins a picture of legendary pilot Louis Blériot above the cot of her newborn daughter, Jean.1934. Jean Batten climbs into the cockpit of her Gipsy Moth, aiming to beat Amy Johnson's solo flight record from England to Australia.Spurred on by her mother in the face of this huge challenge, Miss Batten joins the ranks of the gr...

Based on a real love triangle, this fascinating novel is by one of New Zealand's most-loved respected authors.'Dougie's story and mine is not told in the history of William Larnach. It is our private journey, and only we understand how it came about; only we know the fitness and the wonder of it.' William James Mudie Larnach's name resonates in New Zealand history - the politician and self-made man who built the famous 'castle' on Otago Peninsula. In 1891, after the death of his first two ...

'Children between the ages of twelve and 25 find parents embarrassing 95 per cent of the time. Any younger and they're so uncritical they think you look good in swimmers. Any older and they drop in just long enough to leave their laundry and borrow 50. If you want to embarrass your kids you have to strike when they're teenagers.'For 30 years, Pat McDermott's much-loved 'Family Matters' saga has unfolded on the last page of The Australian Women's Weekly. Her hilarious obser...

Ten easy to prepare, family-friendly recipes for cooks in a hurry. Cooking for the family can be stressful. There's bound to be a shortage of time, some fussy eaters and perhaps budget constraints. Thank heavens for Helen Jackson. She is the busy mother of busy children, and she knows just what to put on the table to keep them all happy and ensure there's plenty of nourishing, healthy, tasty food to share around. These 10 terrific and easy to prepare recipes are taken from...

Ten easy to prepare and healthy meals for the home cook in a hurry. Former Masterchef winner and dietician Nadia Lim has hand-picked 10 of her easiest, healthiest, tastiest meals to enjoy around the family table. This is a go-to collection of everday meals, all with Nadia's trademark nutritional analysis and famous big-flavour.

Three sisters and an unforgettable journey to tame New Zealand’s Kaimanawa horses For the Love of Horses is a heartfelt story about a life familiar to many young Kiwis who love horses – the trials and tears of Pony Club, the joy of riding bareback, and the pressures of adolescence and competitive showjumping. It is also the story of an unlikely childhood dream coming true. Every year in the wilderness of the Central Plateau, wild Kaimanawa horses are rounded up a...

Is your child a fussy eater? Do you struggle to convince them that healthy is best? Do you wage a daily war against the marketing machines of big fast food corporations? Then you NEED this book! This is the one-stop food manual for parents. With just a few simple rules to follow, any parent, no matter how busy and stressed they may be, can provide healthy food for their family day after day, and have more time left over, not less. HEALTHY FAMILY, HAPPY FAMILY shows you how to cook quick an...

Escape to Italy with this sumptuous story of secrets and friendships under Mediterranean skies.A recipe for life should be a simple thing: love and happiness, family, friends and a little food. But life is rarely straightforward...Alice wants to make the most of life - after all, she knows how fragile it can be - and knows she never feels more alive than when she's cooking.Babetta has spent a lifetime tending the garden of her tiny house on the Itali...

'The preparation of food, the smells and tastes and textures, have accompanied me throughout the journeys of my life. In fact looking back the food memories have become the marker posts - defining boundaries in the years, demarcating the challenges and the changes.'In times of joy, food has enhanced the celebration, in times of sadness, it has coloured and comforted. And in times of anxiety and emptiness its preparation has given rhythm and meaning to the day, and its offering to o...

Love, life, friendship and Italian food...Raffaella Moretti, by far the most beautiful girl in the southern Italian town of Triento, is about to marry the only boy she has ever loved. It seems that nothing but happiness lies in store for her. Yet, just one year later, she is a widow, and has taken a job as housekeeper in the Villa Rosa, working for a young American.As Raffaella struggles to recapture her lost happiness she starts looking for ways to help th...