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.