Founded as a luxury leather goods house in 1913 in Milan, Prada entered the field of fashion when Miuccia Prada took the helm of the family company in 1979. After initially focusing exclusively on accessories, she presented the house’s first fashion collection in 1988. She would soon transform Prada into one of the world’s most influential luxury brands with a deeply personal, sophisticated and subtly subversive approach.

This definitive publication opens with a concise history of the house, followed by a brief biographical profile of Miuccia Prada, before exploring the collections themselves, organized chronologically. Each collection is introduced by a short text unveiling its influences and highlights, and illustrated with carefully curated catwalk images that showcase hundreds of spectacular clothes, details, accessories, beauty looks and set designs – and, of course, the top fashion models who wore them on the runway, from Naomi Campbell and Gisele to Kate Moss and Kaia Gerber. A rich reference section, including an extensive index, concludes the book.

Hardback 

632 Pages

Best-selling author/illustrator Marion Deuchars now takes her beloved bird through a daily workout in the natural sequel to Yoga for Stiff Birds.

Marion Deuchars perfectly understands the difficult relationship some of us have with our daily fitness routine. In How to be a Fit Bird she raises a smile and brings levity to our workouts, using Bob the bird to see us through a number of routines: from holistic ten-minute workouts to more specific sessions focusing on particular parts of the body.

ISBN 9781837760503

88 pages, 180 x 130 mm

Classy and sassy, this hardcover ledger with four notepads and a coordinating pencil offers a fun and effective way to keep daily tasks in order.

With a gold foil-stamped cover and spine, four notepads for notes and to-dos, amusing expletives rendered in elegant calligraphy, plus a coordinating pencil, this hardcover ledger is a great organisational tool for anyone with a sense of style and humour!

• Notepad 1: Shit To Do Now
• Notepad 2: Shit To Do Later
• Notepad 3: Don't Fucking Forget
• Notepad 4: Fucking Brilliant
• Cover & Pencil: Getting Shit Done
  

ISBN 9781452163048

240 pages, 228 x 92 mm

Everyday Antiques shows how to introduce antique and vintage pieces into every room in the house to create a home that’s individual, comfortable and stylish.

For most of us, decorating is not about taking an empty room and filling it with all-new co-ordinated furnishings, nor is it a case of inheriting matching sets of priceless antiques. Usually, we’re somewhere in the middle – a couple of hand-me-downs here, some flat-pack items there, plus a few antique or vintage or simply secondhand pieces thrown into the mix.

In Everyday Antiques Katherine Sorrell shows how to harmoniously combine these unexpected and individual older pieces with new ones to make your home sing – an old portrait that was a lucky market find, perhaps, a set of 1960s glassware found at a charity shop, or an ornate gilt-framed mirror that belonged to your grandma. Incorporating such gems into your home has never been easier, thanks to online marketplaces like eBay and the plethora of antiques dealers popping up on Instagram. Spotting unusual pieces is not only fun and satisfying but, even better, you won’t see them anywhere else.

ISBN 9781788796149

192 pages, 280 x 220 mm

A rhyming illustrated humour book for mums who feel they're not doing a good job (and that's all mums, right?). Packed with scientifically true examples of terrible parents in the animal kingdom, to remind and reassure any mother that there are way worse mums out there.

A mum giraffe is pretty nice until the foetus drops. She’ll birth a newborn baby calf, then kick him ’til he walks. Whenever you feel guilty that you haven’t cleaned the house – Sexton beetles raise their kids in a decomposing mouse. A koala mum will feed her kids her own poop. Yes, poop. Panda mums will abandon one twin because raising two is, well, just too much. And every now and then a cuddly little hamster mum will – yup – eat her newborn pups.

These and other true facts from the animal kingdom offer a hilarious reality check on what constitutes 'good parenting'. So, human mother, time to stop worrying about the job you're doing – because you’re a great mum.

Ten true stories of daring and danger from New Zealand adventurers.

• Race to the South Pole with Sir Edmund Hillary
• Defend yourself against polar bears near the Magnetic North Pole with Helen Thayer
• Find the source of the Nile River with Cam McLeay and Garth MacIntyre
• Circumnavigate the world with 15-year-old Laura Dekker in a yacht
• Trek through the forbidden zone in the Libyan Desert with Lisa Tamati

And many more exciting adventures! Some known, some forgotten, and some just discovered.

Aromatic, refreshing, delicious and a feast for the eyes, the generously-sized and creatively garnished gin tonica Spanish-style drink is taking the cocktail world by storm.

This simplest of drinks—just gin, tonic, ice and a garnish—is now considered the national drink of Spain. A beautiful cocktail with a variety of herb and flower garnishes, a Spanish-style gin and tonic or gin tonica, is made with a premium gin and the best quality tonic water, combined with bitters and various herbs, spices, flowers and fruits that will complement the botanicals of a specific gin. It is served over ice in an oversized balloon glass—the idea being that the shape enables the drinker to enjoy all the lovely aromas their drink gives off. For a cocktail with only two ingredients, the flavour potential is staggering!

With more gin brands and styles of tonic available than ever before, and 40 inspired recipes here to try at home, there has never been a better time to discover the joy of the gin tonica – saludos!

The 170 pubs in this title are a selection of the best – they are not only a great place to relax but they are also cornerstones of their community. 

This edition includes helpful information on food, accommodation, and ambience as well as historic information and interesting stories. It also contains 19 short sections on topics such as fires and prohibition.

This is a fully revised and updated edition. Peter Janssen has added new pubs all around the country and removed listings for out-of-date pubs. In addition to new listings and updated information, new photography has been added throughout. 

Follow Peter’s journey to find the most iconic hotels in New Zealand, with information about their backgrounds, the local stories and myths as well as the food and accommodation that is available. Learn the reasons why each of these unique hotels have been selected in this revised and updated edition.

Product code: 9781797232751

Master cocktail hour with these useful recipe cards.
A simple guide to making cocktails. Clear and simple instructions with the necessary equipment and skills shown as icons. A great gift for the hard partying man who enjoys a pink parasol in his drink.
Includes 48 photographic recipe cards and 6 blanks for your own creations.
Made from heavy duty 'beer mat' paperboard. 100% plastic free product & pack.

9.5x9.5x0.1cm

1789 is one of the most significant dates in history. It is the year, obviously, the French Revolution kicked off with the nation's peasants demanding 'Liberte! Egalite! Fraternite! and led to the rolling of the heads of the French ruling class. Rather wonderfully, it's also the year that America emancipated the name Bourbon from the French and began distilling the whiskey that would soon become the official spirit of the United States. History's funny like that.

Precisely 235 years later, bourbon is having a big boom all around the world, its popularity never more in full swing. From high-profile celebrity brands to bestselling bottles, famous drinkers to high volume sales, bourbon is the next renaissance in spirits, following hot on the heels of the premium gentrification of rum, vodka, tequila and gin.

The Little Book of Bourbon is America's official spirit distilled into more than 175 shots of booze-infused facts, stats, trivia, history, tips, recipes, advice and much more. An absolute must-own companion for bourbon connoisseurs. Please read responsibly.

'All bourbon is whiskey, but not all whiskey is bourbon.' Fred Minnick