HarperCollins brings back into print a New Zealand classic. The year is 1859 and the Small family arrives in the new Canterbury colony without a penny to their name. Mother and six children have a hard beginning to their new life - all the more since they are runaways from a cruel father and husband in Australia. But there are adventures ahead ...

Furniture of the New Zealand Colonial Era is without doubt the most lavishly illustrated New Zealand book to be published so far this century, and will rank among the most historically significant. A definitive account of the furniture and interiors of nineteenth-century New Zealand, and of the cabinetmaking industry throughout that period, the book is crammed full of never-before-published research and images. The contents range over early settlement, imported furnishings, campaign furniture, New Zealand timbers, the birth of a local cabinetmaking industry, the major furniture makers such as Johan Levien and William Seuffert, New Zealand design and the great exhibitions. A ground-breaking database of cabinetmakers, most of whom are represented in photographs, is contained in an appendix. Illustrated with almost 1500 photographs, illustrations, reproductions of advertisements, working drawings and cabinetmakers' catalogues this is a work of timeless appeal not only for fans of antiques and history but for all who appreciate a truly beautiful book.

Published in English for the first time,this is the original colour edition that first appeared over 50 years ago.An essential edition for Tintin enthusiasts.

First Offender is one of the most unusual and important books ever to be published in New Zealand.
Writing under his own name,and only thinly disguising his material as fiction,Ken Berry has penned a sincere and compassionate account of the two years and eight months he served for embezzlement in the first offenders prison of "Te Ariki".
For its social importance,its sheer gusto and humour,its honesty and its underlying tragedy,First Offender will be widely read and enjoyed by thinking New Zealanders in all sectors of the community.

A brand new edition of the long unavailable children's story, written and illustrated by the author of The Hobbit and Letters from Father Christmas, with newly scanned manuscript pages and redesigned text.
Professor J.R.R. Tolkien invented and illustrated the book of Mr Bliss's adventures for his own children when they were very young. The story is reproduced here exactly as he created it -- handwritten with lots of detailed and uproarious colour pictures.
This is a complete and highly imaginative tale of eccentricity.
Mr Bliss, a man notable for his immensely tall hats and for the girabbit in his garden, takes the whimsical decision to buy a motor car. But his first drive to visit friends quickly becomes a catalogue of disasters.
Some of these could be blamed on Mr Bliss's style of driving, but even he could not anticipate being hijacked by three bears.
As for what happened next -- the readers, whether young or old, will want to discover for themselves.
Thankfully all ended well, and even the yellow motor car with red wheels (to which Mr Bliss has taken an understandable and great dislike), came in useful at the end!

This is a stunning collection of photographs of early powerboats and launches taken from the mid 1890s to the late 1920s by renowned maritime photographer Henry Winkelmann.
The wide range of images shows a variety of craft, some utterly obscure, some quite famous, from elegant launches and humble working boats to dashing early speedboats.
All capture the essence of the boat, the place and the time.

Heart of the home, meeting point, food centre and conversation place: is any room more important than the kitchen?

Little surprise, then, that for many families it is the kitchen where important events happen, where decisions are made and where lives unravel.

The author talks to, mainly women, whose kitchens play a large part in their life