My best reads 2011
Annotation:I love reading about America's southwest and this is a powerful tale of the modern day borderlands where people and drug smuggling corrupts communities.
Place a Hold
Annotation:Another book I had to buy for myself. A classic selection of her recipes. Worth reading also for her evocation of the food and places that she loved.
Annotation:Nancy Power is a Californian landscape designer considered one of the best and most influential in America today. Her gardens are beautiful and this beautiful book does them justice.
Annotation:This is a wonderful book on many levels - first as a book object with beautiful design and paper and then for the content - really interesting ideas about building homes and how we live in them. Definitely a book for Christchurch now.
Annotation:An absorbing history of Paris. Everything from the catacombs to Marie Antoinette to Napoleon - fascinating stories you just couldn't imagine.
Annotation:Another wonderful cookbook from Greg Malouf. The recipes are great and the pictures and commentary give you a fascinating picture of Iran.
Annotation:I loved this one so much I brought my own copy. Brilliant story telling.
Annotation:I love cookbooks and this one deserved all the awards it got.
Annotation:I haven't read comics since my Classic Comics days but this is one of two on my list. Magical and mysterious -it just appealed to me.
Annotation:This book crept in gently under the radar. A local, distinct character with small town South Island and the lure of the Southern Alps wonderfully created.
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Some of the books I really enjoyed in 2011.
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