What's New at Arty Bees Books.
This is the spot to check out every week, as we bring you the latest on the fabulous, weird, interesting, intriguing, and wonderful books, big or small, mostly square-ish - although not always - that have come into the Arty Bees shops over the past seven days or so.

The Annual Arty Bees’ HARDBACK FICTION SALE is currently on.

Bargains galore!! - see below.
Almost all Hardback Fiction at one third off normal prices, and half off purchases of 3 books or more (this sale spans across both of our branches).

This is from the following sections: General Fiction, Modern Literature, Detective, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Old Novels, Horror and Historical Fiction. Our hardbacks or trade paperbacks (soft-cover but hardcover size) are generally priced from $16 - $22, so if you do the math on that you can get novels for as little as $8. It’s a great opportunity to collect some nice editions of your favourite books or try out some new ones

What's New at Arty Bees Courtenay Place

The big news of the last few weeks is that it is it is once again time for our annual Hardback Fiction Sale which is continuing at both shops with many goodies yet to be snapped up.
The books may be a little harder to spot at the Courtenay Place branch, they’re mostly at the top of the fiction shelves – you know, somewhere up near the ceiling - but they are well worth the effort.

Groovy music for guitarists, busker's pianists, and budding jazz musicians! And did we mention Gilbert and Sullivan? Check out new stock in the sheet music including...

• Buddy Holly & the Crickets - 20 Golden Greats
• Happy Days of Rock 'n' Roll (complete with The Fonz on the cover)
• Our First '8' Years - 25 Hit Songs of the Beatles
• 1001 Hit Songs - DeLux edition (from the Aba Daba Honeymoon to Zip a Dee Doo Dah complete with words)
• Six Blues-Roots Pianists including Jimmy Yancey, Champ Jack Dupree, Little Brother Montgomery, Speckled Red, Roosevelt Sykes & Otis Spann
• B Konowitz's Complete Rock Piano Method
• Nana Mouskouri Hits
• The Tom Springfield Song Album
• Elvis - The Ballads
• It's Easy to Play the Blues, It's Easy to Play Boogie Woogie and It's Easy to Play Jazz
• The Joy of Jazz
• Vol's 4, 5 & 6 of Pub Favourites including the songs I'm Henery the Eighth I Am!, Goodnight Sweetheart, Lilli Marlene, Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport and a dubious classic almost certainly due for revival as a drinking song Chick Chick Chick Chick Chicken.
• Francis & Day's Album of Famous Old Songs vols 1 - 11
• Kiss the Blaney Stone - 25 Popular Irish Songs and A Song of Scotland
• Dr Johnson's Piano Method (Complete with record for classical, Rock and Jazz tutorial)
• Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay - Songs for Everyone
• Apusskidu - Songs for Children
• Nursery Rhymes with Music arranged by Arthur Adams
• The Complete Vocal Score for Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore and The Mikado
• The Complete Vocal Score for Merrie England by Hood and German

We have in a fantastic collection of blacksmithing and sword books. It’s very rare for us to see anything on these topics. Come in and grab them before a yellow jump-suited Uma Thurman does.

• Medieval Swordsmanship – Illustrated Methods and Techniques by John Clements
• The Complete Modern Blacksmith by Alexander G. Weygers
• The Craft of the Japanese Sword by Leon and Hiroko Kapp & Yoshindo Yoshihara.
• A Collector’s Guide to Swords, Daggers & Cutlasses by Gerald Weland.

Show me the money! Find out about how to be a real Jerry Macguire with The Business of Sports Agents by Kenneth L. Shropshire and Timothy Davis.

If you have ‘Shield Fever’ then we have lots of books on Ranfurly Shield history to keep you happy over the next 26 years. No, I’m kidding, I’m sure it will never be lost again. Other new sporting books in include All Blacks - The Authorised Portrait by Ron Palenski and The Kiwis – 100 Years of International Rugby League.

Naval books following New Zealanders during the war include Flying Boats - My Father's War in the Mediterranean by Alex Frame and Torpedo! Kiwis at Sea in World War II by Matthew Wright. Also on offer is The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Military History edited by Ian McGibbon.

The Sea and the Soil is Ralph Ballinger’s biography, which starts with his own sea-fearing, war-fearing adventures leading on to his career as a leading horticulturalist – including being New Zealand’s only ever licensed morphine poppy grower!

Other shiny new War books in this week include Malta Convoys by Richard Woodman, End of the Beginning by Tim Clayton & Phil Craig, Colossus: Bletchly Parks Greatest Secret by Paul Gannon and ANZIO: The Friction of War by Lloyd Clark

Trial by Trickery - Scott Watson, the Sounds Murders and the Game of Law by Keith Hunter is yet another book on the double homicide that won’t go away.

Get your goddess on! Grimoire for the Green Witch – A Complete Book of Shadows, Liber Kaos and Liber Null by Peter J. Carroll, and Power of the Witch – A Witch’s guide to her craft are just a few of the Neo-Paganism & Wicca titles in this week.

What's New at Arty Bees Manners Street

We have had some great Shipping, Aviation and Military books in this week - so many in fact that Wendy has threatened to go on strike if we process all of the boxes in one go.

Wendy is the miraculous genie that takes care of the general history sections and the war and transportation sections most of the time - which is why they almost always look so pretty. Unfortunately she tends to go on holiday for the month of October most years, so then the rest of us have to remember things like where Ethelred the Unready comes chronologically in UK history in order to shelve things in the right place. Suffice to say we all miss her when she's gone... And currently these section are already full to overflowing (Ha! Who are we kidding - it's always like that...) so we'll be drip feeding these titles out over the next couple of weeks hoping that we'll think of some cunning plan to get them to fit.

In the mean time here are some of the goodies.
We have Amelia Earhart titles including The Search for Amelia Earhart by Goerner, Lost Star - The Search For Amelia Earhart by Randall Brink and The Sound of Wings - The Biography of Amelia Earhart by Mary Lovell.

Books on the great days of sailing around Cape Horn - no copy of Jack Churchouse's The Pamir I'm afraid, but there are still some great yarns like:

• The Cape Horn Breed - My Experiences as an Apprentice in Sail in the Full Rigged Ship 'British Isles'  by Captain W H Jones
• Sixteen Times Round Cape Horn by Isaac Norris Hibberd
• Round the Horn Before the Mast by A Basil Lubbock
• Farewell Windjammer - An Account of the Last Circumnavigation of the Globe by a Sailing Ship by Holger Thesleff
• The Cape Horn Breed by Captain W Jones
• Master of Cape Horn W.A. Nelson 1839-1929 by Hugh Falkus
• Cape Horn by Felix Riesenberg
• Cruise of the Conrad - A Journal of a Voyage Round the World, undertaken and carried out in the ship "Joseph Conrad", 212 tons, in the years 1934, 1935, and 1936 by way of Good Hope, the South Seas, the East Indies, and Cape Horn by Alan Villiers

And lot's of other Alan Villiers' titles as well including:

• The Set of the Sails - The Story of a Cape Horn Seaman
• The Indian Ocean
• The Cutty Sark - Last of a Glorious Era
• By Way of Cape Horn
• Give Me A Ship to Sail
• Oceans of the World

Random titles from this collection that defy such categorisation include Dresden - Tuesday 13 February 1945 by Frederick Taylor, Last Talons of the Eagle - Secret Nazi Technology by Hyland and Gill, The Town That Died - The Story of the World's Greatest Man-made Explosion before Hiroshima by Michael J Bird and the charmingly un-PC The Malim Sahib's Hindustani by C T Willson of the Bombay Pilot Service 1939  "designed to assist young ships officers to acquire a working knowledge of the low hindustani spoken by native crews, coolies, servants & longshoremen round the coast of India".

Celebrate not being swallowed by the Super Collider's imaginary black hole making capabilities by checking out some new Engineering and Science books: Dictionary of Inventions and Discoveries by E F Carter, a big book called Machines by Sigvard Strandh, The Journey's of Voyager - Nasa Reaches for the Planets by Robin Kerrod, and biographies of Leakey, Francis Bacon, James Jeans, Lomonsov, Josephe Hooker, Edison, Issac Barrow, and Alexander Fleming.

Fiction in this week includes lots of detective stories by Maj Sjowall & Per Whaloo, Agatha Christie classics, classic science fiction by Clifford Simak and Robert Heinlein, and fantasy by Raymond E Fiest.
We also have in new yummy titles by C K Stead like Kin of Place and J M Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello, classics for vertically challenged readers like the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder and Green Eggs and Ham by Dr Seuss, and Animal Stories by the wonderful Gerald Durrell, Brian Jacques and Henry Williamson.

And don't forget that we have lots of great authors and titles at both shops available at great prices in our Hardback Fiction sale which is still running for the next week or so.

Random excitements this week include a biography for these hard economic times Fat, Forty and Fired by Nigel Marsh, Christopher Wood's Beautiful The Pre-Raphaelites, A History of Fashion by Black and Garland, Jeremy Thomas' You Don't Have to Be Famous to Have Manic Depression (with a foreword by the inimitable Stephen Fry), Disease - The Extraordinary Stories Behind Histories Deadliest Killers (a big yummy illustrated history) by Mary Dobson, and A Popular Dictionary of Judaism by L & D Cohn-Sherbok.

New Zealand books. We are literally being swamped by yummy New Zealand titles at the moment. We have had to impose a strict only one copy of any title rule in order to even think about all the books fitting - and that hasn't even worked as we still have about 5 meters of great shelving and no space.
Short of constructing a tardis device down there in the New Zealand section (or annexing Matiu Island as Arty Bees Sovereign State and expanding the empire) we are currently just having to make do, so if you can't find what you are looking for, please ask at the desk - we may have a copy hiding in the back room (which Robynne is slowly data basing) or it may just be hiding on Fred - our slightly distressed shelving shelf.

• New Zealand - New Caledonia - Neighbours, Friends, Partners. La Nouvelle-Zeland et La Nouvelle Caledonie. Voisins, Amis at Partenaires by Angleviel & Levine
• Wellington Airport - Official Souvenir Brochure, October 1959
• Chatham Island in Perspective by G Arbuckle
• A Great New Zealand Adventure 1990 - Retracing the Legendary Swim by Hinepoupou (1750 AD) …. by Olive Baldwin
• Bellingshausen - A Visit to New Zealand 1820 edited by Glynn R Barratt
• The Eighth Land - The Polynesian Discovery & Settlement of Easter Island by Barthel
• Terrence Barrow's Traditional & Modern Music of the Maori
• Louis Becke's Pacific Tales
• Elsdon Best's The Maori As He Was - A Brief Account of Maori Life as it was in Pre-European Days
• Cardigan Bay - The Horse That Won a Million Dollars by Ron Bisman
• I Remember the Tall Ships by Frank Brookesmith
• The Spell of Stewart Island by Gertrude Dempsey
• Nga Kahui Pou - Launching Maori Futures by Mason Durie
• Rogue Storm - A True Story of Disaster & Survival in a Force 12 Storm by Tony Farrington
• Michael Field's Black Saturday - New Zealand's Tragic Blunders in Samoa
• The Dutchman Bold - The Story of Abel Tasman by George Finkel
• Scholars & Gentlemen Both - G M & Allan Thomson in New Zealand Science & Education by Ross Galbreath
• Glennie & Phare's The Spirit of Rose-Noelle 119 Days Adrift - A Survival Story
• New Zealand Disasters by Eugene Grayland
• Dash 8 Down - The Inside Story of Ansett Flight 703 by Michael Guerin
• One Good Run - The Legend of Burt Munro by Tim Hanna
• Hanton & Anderson Ltd's Memories of Old Wanganui - A Picture Book of Earlier Times in 5 Volumes
• Hicks & Campbell's Awesome Forces - The Natural Hazards that Threaten New Zealand
• Hitchens & Beale's Petone to Pencarrow - A Shoreline with a History
• The Wild West Coast by Lesley Hobbs
• Scandal at Cave Creek - A Shocking Failure in Public Accountability by Graeme Hunt
• New Zealand Tragedies Aviation - Accidents and Disasters by John King
• Michael King's Being Pakeha - An Encounter with New Zealand and the Maori Renaissance and The Penguin History of New Zealand
• Express Steamers of Cook Strait by Allan A Kirk
• The Wind Vane by Main Royal (aka W E Mouldey)
• Rapanui - Tradition & Survival on Easter Island by Grant McCall
  

Each week, we bring you the most tragic & fantastic piece of cover art that's crossed our desk.
Bwahhhahahahaaa! And it's Non-Fiction Psychology!

It's Our Annual Arty Bees Storewide

HARDBACK FICTION SALE

For a limited time only!

Hardback Fiction from the following selected sections is reduced to an astounding 1/3 off the normal prices and an amazing 1/2 off purchases of 3 or more sale books.

Modern Literature
General Fiction
Detective Fiction
Horror Novels
Sci Fi & Fantasy Fiction
Historical Novels
& Old Novels

Sorry - New books, and Non Fiction are not included

Recently arrived new books. To purchase, click here, type in the tag number and your contact details.

To see the complete list of available new science fiction, click here.
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To see the complete list of available Rare and Antiquarian books at both shops, click here.

New Science Fiction & Fantasy and Detective Novels

Other New Books

New New Zealand Books added this week

Arty Bees Books. 2 Locations.
17 Courtenay Place, Wellington.
Telephone 04 385 1819
The Oaks, Manners Street, Wellington.
Telephone 04 384 5339
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