Secret Societies and the The Joys of Engrish

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What's New - New and exciting titles in this week at Arty Bees

Fictional Fun for the frigid weather...

Big Fat Epic Science Fiction (the books are "Big and Fat" not the authors) include lots of Kim Stanley Robinson, Harry Turtledove and Robert Heinlein

Thick Classic Fantasy - some of the MUST have authors (also the books are "thick" not the authors "if you were as thick as a Robert Jordan novel you wouldn't be able to tie your own shoes") including L E Modesitt, Juliette Mariller, Kate Elliot, Robert Jordan, Raymond E Feist and David Eddings.

General Fiction goodies, great for couch potato winter reading include, Bryce Courtenay, Ben Elton, Catherine Alliot, Louise Bagshawe

We've had so many Detective books to baffle and bother your brain, that Imogen had to shuffle entire shelves to make them fit! Check out Tami Hoag, Karen Slaughter, Kellermans.. wives, husbands AND sons.. Jonathan, Jesse and Faye!

Lots of yummy Modern Literature and Literature has come in and has been keeping the guys busy with shelving - the section is soooo big now (over 200 linear metres - a fifth of a kilometre if we laid it out in one long line!) we have considered having brandy carrying St Bernards wandering in the aisle looking for mislaid customers.
Gems include Vonnegut, Aldous Huxley, and A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace (the first of his titles to come through the door since he killed himself).

Graphic novels - Busiek and Wenzel's The Wizard's Tale and Neil Gaiman's The Sandman - A Game of You

A smattering of the recent arrivals in the History and Geography sections this week...

• The Pain and the Privilege - The Women in Lloyd George's Life by Ffion Hague (William Hague's Missus)
• Vanishing Cultures of South Africa by Peter Magubane. Packed with pictures of fast-disappearing ethnic traditions
• 13 -The Story of the World's Most Popular Superstition by Nathaniel Lachenmeyer
• Oxford Atlas of the World 14th edition, 2007
• Trademarks of the 40s and 50s by Eric Baker and Tyler Blik
• The Tyrannicide Brief - The Story of the Man who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold by Geoffrey Robertson
• The Atlas of the World's Worst Natural Disasters
• Three Statesmen - Gokhale, Gandhi and Nehru by B. R. Nanda
• Lost Voices of the Edwardians by Max Arthur

Cooking! Food! Yum!

• Made in Italy - Food and Stories by Giorgio Locatelli
• Sauces - Classical and Contemporary Sauce Making - Two inches thick and packed with goodness by James Peterson
• Marie Claire Cookbook - Nigel Slater
• Dinner in a Basket - Judith Cullen cooks from the Market
• James Martin Desserts, a fabulous collection of recipes from Sweet Baby James
• The Bathers' Pavilion - Menus and Recipes by Serge Dansereau
• Retro Diner - Comfort Food from the American Roadside by Linda Everett

New - well, old, but new to us this week - we have Russian books including famous poets, short stories, essays, literature and grammar and dictionaries. Как захватывающее!

Books about the Arts and Entertainment, creatively bounding about this week...

• Dear Fatty by Dawn French
• Miller's Art Nouveau
• Christopher Isherwood Diaries Volume 1 1939 - 1960
• Magnolias - A Care Manual by Graeme Rankin
• Inspired Creative Writing - Secrets of the Master Wordsmiths - 52 brilliant ideas by Alexander Gordon Smith
• Welcome to Britain - A Celebration of Real Life by Williams and Teasdale. The pics that don't make it to the tourist brochures
• Volume 5 of the Roy Stuart "photography" series put out by Taschen
• Mambo - Art Irritates Life
• Alfred Hitchcock - lots of titles of his fiction and books about his films..
• Television series companions including the book of 24 (tick, tick, tick, tick, - sorry that needed sound effects) and the book of Six Feet Under - Better Living Through Death
• Taboo - The Art of Tiki
• The Same River Twice - Honoring the Difficult by Alice Walker

And on the Music front...

• The Jam - The Modern World by Numbers by Paul Honeyford
• Black Sabbath by Chris Welch
• Reggae Explosion - The Story of Jamaican Music, a yummy coffee table book by Salewicz and Blackwell
• The Beatles - The Biography by Bob Spitz
• And new titles on the biggies : Sinatra, The Beatles, Elvis and Gilbert & Sullivan scores...

Fanciful Stuff in Non Fiction

• The Element Encyclopedia of Secret Societies and Hidden History
• The Ultimate A-Z of Ancient Mysteries, Lost Civilizations and Forgotten Wisdom
• Fantasy Encyclopedia - A Guide to Fabulous Beasts and Magical Beings by Judy Allen
• It's Raining Frogs and Fishes - Four Seasons of Natural Phenomena and Oddities of the Sky by Jerry Dennis
• How to Look Good Naked by Gok Wan
• The Best Year of Your Life Kit - A Do-it-Yourself Kit by Debbie Ford
• The Joys of Engrish - Strange & Wonderful Mis-uses of the English Language by Stephen Caires
• 108 Tips for Time Travellers by Peter Cochrane

Some New Zealand titles that showed up this week include:

• More creepie crawlies in Ruud Kleinpaste's Backyard Battlefield
• Old Manawatu by T. L. Buick, Capper Press, lovely condition
• Exotic Intruders - The Introduction of Plants and Animals into New Zealand by Joan Druett
• Ian Wedde's Dick Seddon's Great Dive
• Robin Hyde's Passport to Hell

And early Maori Language books of a largely religious bent...

• He Kauwhau na Te Manihera (Atirikona) by Robert Maunsell aka Te Manihera published in 1911
• A 1925 The Maori Bible Te Paipera Tapu in beautiful condition
• Te Pukapuka O Nga Inoi, Me Era Atu Tikanga a Te Hahi O Ingarani Mo Te - Minitatanga nga Hakarameta, O Era Atu Ritenga Hoki Te Hahi - Me Nga Waiata Ano Hoki a Rawiri - Prayers & Hymns in Maori reprinted in the 1950s
• Te Ora Mo Te Maori by James H Pope aka Popi published in 1896

And tales of Action and Death

• One More Kilometre and We're in the Showers - Memoirs of a Cyclist, by Wheelman Tim Hilton
• McMafia - Crime Without Frontiers by Misha Glenny
• Commando for Action and Adventure - The Dirty Dozen - from the big chunky comic book series
• Death in Yellowstone - Accident and Foolhardiness in the First National Park by Lee H. Whittlesey
• Surviving the Volcano by Stanley Williams

Each week, we bring you the most tragic & fantastic piece of cover art that's crossed our desk.
EXCITING Foliage Plants - Not the boring ones that don't know how to bungy jump or make good small talk - they left those out...

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