A Snow Ball in Hell and Bring Me the Rhinoceros

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.

What's New at Arty Bees Courtenay Place

Brand New Fiction released in the last six months, some uncorrected proof copies:

• Ashes to Ashes by Barbara Nadel
• The Kingdom Beyond the Waves by Stephen Hunt
• A Snow Ball in Hell by Christopher Brookmyre
• The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
• The Girl of his Dreams by Donna Leon
• The Book of Murder by Guillermo Martinez
• All the Colours of Darkness by Peter Robinson

Kurt Cobain books are in store - so if the scraggly-haired, be-cardiganed grunge guitar hero is your cup of tea we have The Nirvana Years – The Complete Chronicle by Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna and The Cobain Dossier by Martin Clarke and Paul Woods.

Lots of Terry Pratchett Discworld books in this week, plus The Science of Discworld and its sequels The Globe and Darwin’s Watch. We also have the latest out at Manners Street so see below.

We seem to have warmed to him again, as it’s been years since the Kim Hill debacle. We have these John Pilger books in this week: Hidden Agendas, Heroes, The New Rulers of the World and Tell Me No Lies.

Gorgeous Children’s picture books in excellent condition this week include The Wolves in the Wall by Neil Gaiman and David Kean, How to Live Forever by Colin Thompson, A Busy Day for a Good Grandmother by Margaret Mahy and The Lorax and other titles by Dr. Seuss.
Plus a lovely collection of children’s chapter books from David Almond, Louis Sachar, John Marsden, Emily Rodda and more …
And with classics like Johnny Appleseed and Little Red Riding Hood we have a plethora or Little Golden Books (How many is plethora? We don't know)

The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is anything but compact! It comprises two enormous volumes with four pages on one page. It comes with its own magnifying glass to help you out. A bargain at $225.00.

Find a direction in life - rather like Steve Livingstone's Pick a Path Adventure series - it's easy - just choose a book and see where it takes you, roll the dice and defeat the monster.

• Hindu Astrology Lessons: 36 Teachers Share their Wisdom edited by Richard Houck (To ensure your future is as prospoerous as Apu's)
• NLP The New Technology of Achievement edited by Steve Andreas and Charles Faulkner
• NLP: Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Health by Ian McDermott & Joseph O'Connor
• Using Your Brain for a Change by Richard Bandler
• Frogs into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming by Richard Bandler & John Grinder
• The Dark Lord: Cult Images and the Hare Krishnas in America by Larry D Shinn
• Talking to Heaven:  A Medium's Message of Life and Death by James van Praagh
• The Uddhava Gita: The Final Teaching of Krishna translated by Swami Ambikananda Saraswati

New Zealand books this week include:

• A Dictionary of Modern New Zealand Slang by Harry Orsman
• Takapau - The Sovereign Years 1876-1976 by Warren Bayliss
• Always the Outsider by Colin Amery
• Nurse in the North by Barbara Ancott-Johnson
• Elsdon Best's Spiritual and Mental Concepts of the Maori
• The Loving Stitch - A History of Knitting and Spinning in New Zealand by Heather Nicholson
  

What's New at Arty Bees Manners Street

Nation. Terry Pratchett's latest is out and at Arty Bees on Manners Street so if you have been wasting away waiting for new work from the wonderous wizard of wit (phrew that was a lot of w's I'm worn out now) then head down to see us and we will get you sorted - after all what else would you do this weekend...

Buddhism-
Zen Master Raven - Sayings and Doings of a Wise Bird by Robert Aitken
Opening the Hand of Thought - Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice by Kosho Uchiyama
The Life and Letters of Tofu Roshi by Susan Ichi Su Moon
The Morning Star - New and Selected Zen Writings by Robert Aitken
Bring Me the Rhinoceros - And Other Zen Koans to Bring you Joy by John Tarrant

Random titles from the front line this week include:

• The Fourteenth of an Elephant - A Memoir of Life and Death on the Burma-Thailand Railway by Ian Denya Peek
• The Ghost Rider - Travels on the Healing Road by Neil Peart
• The Lord of the Rings - Gollum - How We Made Movie Magic by Andy Serkis and a very nice set of the trilogies Visual Companions
• The Dam Busters Raid by John Sweetman
• Uppity Women of Ancient Times by Vicky Leon

Tracking down Jazz Books can be like trying to find a Avant-garde Musician who doesn't own a beret, but we have managed it this week.

• Jazz- A Pelican Book by Rex Harris
• Just Jazz 2 edited by Sinclair Trail and the Honourable Gerald Lascelles
• Jazz - New Perspectives on the History of Jazz by Twelve of the World's Foremost Jazz Critics and Scholars by Nat Hentoff & Albert McCarthy
• Jazz Men by Frederic Ramsey Jnr. and Charles Edward Smith
• The Making of Jazz - A Comprehensive History by James Lincon Collier
• A History of Jazz in America by Barry Ulanov
• Jazz Hot and Hybrid by Winthrop Sargeant
  

As often happens here at Arty Bees, we no sooner finished shelving what can honestly only be described as a mountain of New Zealand shelving and there is another two or three metres of books waiting to try and fit on the shelf again.
Among the goodies this week was a large collection of nice Flora and Fauna, Geology and New Zealand Gardening.

• Allsop, F et al (eds) - The Story Of Mangatu - The Forest Which Healed the Land
• Bell, Brian D - The Conservation Status of New Zealand Wildlife
• Bishop, Graham & Forsyth, Jane - Vanishing Ice - An Introduction to Glaciers Based on a Study of the dart Glacier
• Brooker, S G, Cambie, R C & Cooper, R C with DSIR - Economic Native Plants of New Zealand
• Cooper, Lyn & Ray - New Zealand Gemstones
• Cotton, Charles A - Earth Beneath - An Introduction to Geology for Readers in New Zealand
• Enting, Brian & Dawson, John - Seasons in the Forest - A New Zealand Photographers Year
• Fraser, Ronald (comp) & UNESCO - Oceanography of the South Pacific 1972 - Being Papers Presented at an International Symposium… New Zealand Feb 1972
• Galbreath, Ross - Working for Wildlife - A History of the New Zealand Wildlife Service
• Gill, Brian - Collins Handguide to the Frogs and Reptiles of New Zealand
• Glenn, Rewa aka Johnson, Marguerite Maude - The Botanical Explorers of New Zealand
• Goldson, S L & Suckling, D M (ed) - Defending The Green Oasis - New Zealand Biosecurity & Science
• Hadden, Don - 99 New Zealand Birds
• Hager, Nicky - Seeds of Distrust - The Story of a GE Cover-Up
• Handford, Peter - Native Forest Monitoring - A Guide for Forest Owners and Managers
• Harper, Peter C & Kinski, F C - Southern Albatrosses and Petrels - An Identification Guide
• Healy, A J & Mason, R - Identification of Weeds and Clovers - With a Chapter on Aquatic Weeds by R Mason
• Holloway, John Thorpe, McCaskill, L W & Johns, J H - The Mountain Lands of New Zealand
• Johns, J H & Chavasse, C G R - The Forest World of New Zealand - Realm of Tane-Mahuta
• Kiddie, D G - The Sika Deer (Cervus Nippon) in New Zealand
• Kirk, Thomas - The Students Flora of New Zealand and Outlying Islands
• Krause, Dale C - DSIR - Bathymetry and Geologic Structure of the North-Western Tasman Sea - Coral Sea - South Solomon Sea Area of the South-Western Pacific Ocean
• Leach, Helen May K & Tichbourne, Nancy - 1000 Years of Gardening in New Zealand
• Levy, E Bruce - Grasslands of New Zealand
• Lloyd, E F - Geology & Hot Springs of Orakeikorako - New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 85
• Lockley, Ronald - The House Above the Sea
• Logan, P C & Harris, L H - Introduction & Establishment of Red Deer in New Zealand
• Manson, D C M & McDowell, L H - Native & Introduced Butterflies & Moths - Nature in New Zealand
• Manson, D C M & McDowell, L H - Native Beetles - Nature in New Zealand
• Marples, B J - An Introduction to Freshwater Life in New Zealand
• Marshall, Janet, Kinsky, F C & Robertson, C J R - Common Birds in New Zealand vol 2 - Mountain, Bush & Shore Birds
• Martin, William & Child, John - New Zealand Lichens / Lichens of New Zealand
• Matthews, Graeme & Cumberland, Kenneth - Rivers and Lakes in New Zealand
• McCaskill, Lance W - Hold This Land - A History of Soil Conservation in New Zealand
• McCaskill, Lance W for the Department of Lands & Survey - Scenic Reserves of Westland
• McCaskill, Murray - Land and Livelihood - Geographical Essays in Honour of George Jobberns
• McDowall, R M (Bob) - Freshwater Fish
• Miles, Sue & Moon, Geoff - The River - The Story of the Waikato
• Molloy, Brian - Ferns in Peel Forest - A Field Guide
• Moncrieff, Perrine - New Zealand Birds and How to Identify Them
• Moore, Lucy - New Zealand Coastal Plants
• Natusch, Sheila - Native Rock
• Natusch, Sheila - New Zealand Mosses
• New Zealand Government, Government Print edited by Pascoe, John - National Parks of New Zealand New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics - DSIR - O'Connor, M (ed) - New Zealand Journal of
• Geology & Geophysics - Vol 3 # 2
• Peat, Neville - Coasting - The Sea Lion and the Lark
• Pendergrast, J G & Cowley, D R - An Introduction to the Fresh Water Insects of New Zealand
• Poole, A L for New Zealand Forestry Service - Wild Animals in New Zealand
• Pownall, Glen - New Zealand Shells and Shellfish - Collecting - Eating
• Preston, Florence - From Rocks to Roses
  Reed, A H & Collins, Tudor W - The Kauri - New Zealand's Forest King
• Richdale, L E - Camera Studies of New Zealand Birds - Series A # 4
• Richdale, L E - New Zealand Waders, Terns & Gulls - Vol 2 #12
• Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture - Official Judging Rules and Guide to Exhibitors - An Essential Book for all Who Exhibit Flowers, Fruits & Vegetables Salmon, J T - New Zealand Flowers and Plants in Colour
• Sewell, Bill & Ross, Frances - A Guide to The Rimutaka Forest Park
• Soper, M F - New Zealand Bird Portraits
• Stephenson, Gordon - Wetlands - Discovering New Zealand's Shy Places
• Stevens, Graeme, McGlone, Matt & McCulloch, Beverley with Ward, Vivian (illust) - Prehistoric New Zealand
• Stewart, Ken - Collins Handguide to the Native Trees of New Zealand
• Taylor, R L - Weeds of Crops and Gardens in New Zealand
• Taylor, R L - Weeds of Ponds and Streams in New Zealand
• Temple, Philip - Ways to the Wilderness - Great New Zealand Walking Tracks
• Williams, Gordon R - Birds of New Zealand Williams, Karen - Volcanoes of the South Wind - A Field Guide to the Volcanoes and Landscape of Tongariro National Park
• Wilson, Hugh D - Field Guide - Wild Plants of Mt Cook
• Wilson, Hugh D - Wildflowers of New Zealand
• Woodhouse, Ngita - Flowers for Four Seasons

More Illuminated Manuscripts have made it out to the shop including:

• The Painted Page - Italian Renaissance Book Illumination 1450-1550 edited by Jonathan Alexander
• The Medieval Health Handbook Tacuinum Sanitatis by Luisa Cogliati Arano
• Illuminated Manuscripts in Hungary XI-XVI Centuries by Ilona Berkovits
• Gabriel Bise's Illuminated Manuscripts - Tristan and Isolde - from a Manuscript of "The Romance of Tristan" (15th century)
• Csaba Csapodi & Klára Csapodiné Gárdonyi Bibliotheca Corviniana : The Library of King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary.
• Jean Fouquet's The Hours of Etienne Chevalier
• Thames & Hudsons' The Book of Kells
• The Golden Age of English Manuscript Painting 1200-1500 by Marks & Morgan
• The Rohan Book of Hours by Meiss & Thomas
• The Legend of Roland - A Pageant of The Middle Ages by D D R Owen
• The Treasures of Mount Athos - Miniatures, Headpieces, Initial Letters - Vol 1 - The Protaton & the Monasteries of Dionysiou, Koutloumousiou, Xeropotamou & Gregoriou by Pelekanidis et al
• Le Livre du Cueur D'Amours Espris edited by Unterkircher
• Great Altarpieces Gothic and Renaissance by Virdis & Pietrogiovanna
• Walther & Wolf's Codices Illustres - The World's Most Famous Illuminated Manuscripts 400 to 1600
• Jean Fouquet and His Time by Paul Wescher
• Elizabeth Wilson &The Pierpont Morgan Library's Bibles and Bestiaries - A Guide to Illuminated Manuscripts
• Netherlandish Paintings in Soviet Museums
• A Medieval Miscellany by Judith Herrin

Each week, we bring you the most tragic & fantastic piece of cover art that's crossed our desk.
If you think the title is silly you should see the Author photo!

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