EAT WILD: A FORAGING JOURNEY ACROSS AOTEAROA, RRP, $55.
Author Sophie Merkens’ new book is a beautifully illustrated guide to sourcing wild ingredients, with detailed recipes showing how to cook with them. From the coast to the mountains to the native bush, set off on a delightful wild food adventure across New Zealand. This book is a guide to getting your wild ingredients, then cooking with them. It showcases some of this country’s most widely known yet underutilised wild foods and has hunting tips such as what to do with your ethically obtained rabbits.
REMAIN, RRP, $38.
Acclaimed novelist Nicholas Sparks unites with film director M. Night Shyamalan on this one-of-a-kind novel that grapples with the supernatural mysteries of life, death, and human connection. When New York architect Tate Donovan arrives in Cape Cod to design his best friend’s summer home, he’s hoping to make a fresh start. Recently discharged from a psychiatric facility, he’s still wrestling with the pain of losing his beloved sister. Sylvia’s deathbed revelation, that she can see spirits who are still tethered to the living world, a gift that runs in their family, sits uneasily with Tate, who struggles to believe in more than what reason can explain.
