Thrift to Fantasy: Home Textile Crafts of the 1930s-1950s Rosemary McLeod HarperCollins, $59.95, ISBN 1869505093 Rosemary McLeod is an intelligent, witty and acerbic columnist who does us the favour of saying the things we’d like to say out loud, if…
At Home: A Century of New Zealand Design Douglas Lloyd Jenkins Godwit, $69.95, ISBN 1869621107 How we live surely says as much about us as what we do. To students of style the choice of drapes and the shape of…
Eight Days a Week: The Beatles’ Tour of New Zealand 1964 Graham Hutchins Exisle Publishing, $34.95, ISBN 0908988559 Big Smoke: New Zealand City People in the ’60s and ’70s John Daley Random House, $39.95, ISBN 1869621085 Says Graham Hutchins, “Beatlemania…
Leisure and Pleasure: Reshaping and Revealing the New Zealand Body 1900-1960 Caroline Daley Auckland University Press, $39.99, ISBN 186940291X Undressed: New Zealand fashion designers tell their stories Stacy Gregg Penguin, $29.95, ISBN 014301899X It may be only recently that firemen…
Rocking the Cradle: Contraception, Sex and Politics in New Zealand Helen Smyth Steele Roberts, $29.95, ISBN 1877228168 Women will recognise the subtext of Helen Smyth’s history as a record of their own families; not the families posing stiffly in…
Stuff It! A Wicked Approach to Dieting Sarah-Kate Lynch Harper Collins, $19.95 ISBN 1 86950258 2 One day, who knows? We may live in a world in which women are not obsessed by their weight. The time may come, even,…