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  • Ladies, a Plate

    Ladies, a Plate

    Traditional home baking

    $45.00

    Many New Zealanders can still recall a time when family cake tins contained a delicious variety of home-made biscuits, slices, fruit loaves and cakes baked each week by mothers, aunts and grandmothers. The contents of the tins brightened children’s lunches, revived them after school, and refreshed friends and visitors at ...

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  • A Second Helping

    A Second Helping

    More from Ladies, a Plate

    $45.00

    In response to the enthusiastic reception for her bestselling cookbook Ladies, a Plate, Alexa Johnston has gathered together another tempting selection of traditional recipes for the home baker.

    A Second Helping has many more old favourites including Sponge Kisses, Melting Moments, Tan Squares, Lemon Bars and Cream Lilies as well ...

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  • Sir Edmund Hillary

    Sir Edmund Hillary

    An Extraordinary Life

    $30.00

    Sir Edmund Hillary: An Extraordinary Life tells the complete story of this great man, from his expeditions to remote corners of the world to his humanitarian activities with the Sherpa people of Nepal. Drawing on Hillary’s personal archives it is an intimate and inspiring portrait of a revered yet modest ...

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  • Frances Hodgkins

    Frances Hodgkins

    Femme du Monde

    $60.00

    Frances Hodgkins, Femme du Monde, celebrates the life and work of one of New Zealand's favourite painters. Born in Dunedin in 1869, Frances Hodgkins left New Zealand forever in 1912 and the majority of working her career unfolded in Britain and Europe. By the end of her life, in 1947, ...

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