News Blog @ Wellington City Libraries

Quilting dominates our Craft recent picks page for June. There are quick quilts, clever quilts, cuddly quilts, quilt borders, floral quilts, Amish crib quilts and quilts from Italian mosaics.

Our new cookbooks for June include The Hairy Bikers cookbook, Second helpings from the dinner lady and Delia Smith’s winter collection. Monisha Bharadwaj’s India’s vegetarian cooking is so yummy that I want my own copy, and its division into regional cuisines is educational. Gina Mallet “muses on the fates of foods that were once the stuff of feasts” (Amazon UK) in Last chance to eat: the fate of taste in a fast food world.

New magazines include Straight no chaser : interplanetary sounds : ancient to future, Islamica magazine, Scratch : hip hop, Total gamer, Psychologies and Landscape architecture. For more information, check out our Magazines subject help page.

Our new general fiction for June includes books by David Mitchell, Suroopa Mukherjee and Louise Wenner. Our new other fiction includes mysteries by Colleen McCullough and Lisa Scottoline; sf and fantasy by David Eddings and Bruce Sterling; and the short story collection ‘Dates from hell’.

Central Library pre-winter book sale – drastic price reductions!

Mega bargains to be had for the rest of this week only. All fiction and non-fiction books at the low, low price of $1.00 each and stock up your children’s book shelves for a mere 50c per children’s item. Sale finishes on Sunday.

We try to buy books in all the languages popular among Wellingtonians. Check out our latest titles, or suggest a book if your language isn’t covered. This month we have our first book in the Tigrinya language of Eritrea. There are also new books in Chinese, Hindi, Croatian and more.

We have added to our murder mystery genres. Use our easy search box to find your favourite kind of mystery, whether it involve cats, war, English country life, the supernatural, rail travel or noir.

We’ve updated the new books on our parenting page, with titles on teaching babies maths, making smart toy choices and being a happy mother. The Families Commission’s new online panel The Couch is our featured website this month.

Whether you’re after books about revenge, mothers and daughters, London, ex-convicts or the Tudor period, Fiction Connection is designed to help you. Explore by genre, character, location and timeframe or go on a quick tour. Just login with your library card number and begin to browse!

Lost among the hundreds of NZ fiction books that we hold? Our new New Zealand fiction page assists you in finding NZ fiction that you’ll like. Organised by genre, you can read NZ murders, NZ romance, NZ historical novels and more.