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 Arty Bees over the past seven days or so.

News at Arty Bees Books

The Annual Arty Bees’ HARDBACK FICTION SALE has Started.

Bargains galore!! - see below.
Almost all Hardback Fiction at one third off normal prices, and half off purchases of three books or more.

Check out the bargains 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 - New and exciting titles in this week at Arty Bees

Exciting Fiction in this week includes:

• Collected Poems 1909-1962 by T S Elliot
• The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
• White Noise by Don Delillo
• The Annotated Alice by Lewis Carroll
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• A Guide to the Birds of East Africa by Nicholas Drayson
• Naked Lunch By William Burroughs
• The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

And Literature, Language and Music...

• The Things that Matter: What Seven Classic Novels have to Say about the Stages of Life by Edward Mendelson
• Umberto Eco on Literature
• The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison – The Poems and Diaries of a Rock’n’Roll Legend – Wilderness Vol. 1
• Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams by Nick Tosches
• The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody by Will Cuppy

The New Zealand and Pacific section has been subject to an explosion of new stock over the last few weeks.
What we really need is a mini Hadron Collider under it, to make a little black hole in the area and give us some more shelving space.
But as that is unlikely to happen (both the mini Hadron Collider and the black hole) we'll just have to settle for making it all fit. Check out some of the new, and old but always popular titles...

• The Southern Districts of New Zealand by Edward Shortland
• New Guinea Ceremonies by David Gillison
• Brief Lives by Chris Price (an eccentric collection of biographical anecdotes and fictional vignettes)
• White Trash by Gordon Rennie and Martin Emond
• Jump Start – The Autobiography – The Ultimate Adrenalin Rush by A. J. Hackett
• On My Way to the Somme – New Zealanders and the Bloody Offensive of 1916 by Andrew MacDonald
• A Goodly Heritage – Eketahuna and Districts 100 Years 1873-1973 by Irene Adcock
• Sun, Moon and Stars - Legends by Barry Mitcalfe

History and Biography titles in this week.

• Alexander of Russia – Napoleon’s Conqueror by Henri Troyat
• The Tipi – A Centre of Native American Life by David and Charlotte Yue
• The Great Depression - America in the 1930's by T H Watkins
• Things I've been Silent About - Memories by Azar Nafisi
• The Pankhursts - The History of One Radical Family by Martin Pugh
• The Noonday Sun – Edwardians in the Tropics by Valerie Pakenham
• Lives of the Indian Princes by Charles Allen and Sharada Dwivedi
• The Last Mughal - The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple
• A History of Poole by Cecil N. Cullingford
• The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea - The Dark, and True Tale of a Boy Stolen from Sydney Harbour and his Remarkable Journey of Courage, Battle, Murder and Insanity on the High Seas by Robert Holden
• Frost/Nixon by David Frost with Bob Zelnick
• The Statesman and the Fanatic – Thomas Wolsey and Thomas More by Jasper Ridley
• Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World by Justin Marozzi
• The Beast of Chicago - The Murderous Career of H H Holmes by Rick Geary(True crime in comic book form)

And on the tails of Emily Blunt’s portrayal of Queen Victoria we have The Youthful Queen Victoria by Dormer Creston, Victoria - The Young Queen by Monica Charlot and The Young Victoria by Alison Plowden

And Military, Espionage and Terrorism...

• The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the 1st Marine Division by Bing West & Major General Ray L. Smith
• American Journey - Life on the Home Front in the Second World War by Alistair Cooke
• Blood, Tears and Folly - An Objective Look at WW2 by Len Deighton
• Army of Roses - Inside the World of Palestinian Women Suicide Bombers by Barbara Victor
• The First Crusade – Pictorial Edition by Steven Runciman
• This War Without an Enemy – A History of the English Civil Wars by Richard Ollard
• By the Sword Divided – Eyewitnesses of the English Civil War by John Adair
• Code Breakers – The Inside Story of Bletchley Park edited by F. H. Hinsley and Alan Stripp

Also three boxes of Shipping Books (see below) went out onto the shelves this week, num, num, num!
You'd better hit the deck running to catch them.

And while we're on the subject of bloody crusades here are some titles on Religion, Travel and Adventure that encapsulate that good old crusade spirit.

• In Search of Genghis Khan – On horse through Mongolia in the Footsteps of the most successful Warlord the World has ever known by Tim Severin
• The Papacy by Paul Johnson
• Dead Lucky - Life and Death on Mount Everest by Lincoln Hall
• Bandit Roads - Into the Lawless Heart of Mexico by Richard Grant
• The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail – Illustrated edition with exclusive new material by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln
• The Magic and Mystery of Ireland with photographs by Bill Doyle and text by Sonya Newland

On the topic of Food, Glorious Food this week we've had some mouth-watering titles including L’Art Culinaire Moderne by Henri-Paul Pellaprat and some more thought-provoking rather than hunger-provoking titles like The Ethics of What we Eat by Peter Singer and Jim Mason.

Philosophy, philosophy, philosophy!

• Writing and Difference by Jacques Derrida
• Freedom Evolves by Danial C Dennett
• For Marx by Louis Althusser (from the Radical Thinkers series)
• Infinite Thought - Truth and the Return of Philosophy by Alain Badiou
• The Archaeology of Knowledge by Foucault
• Giles Deleuze's Difference and Repitition- a Critical Introduction and Guide by James Williams
• Introducing Foucault by Chris Horrocks and Zoran Jevtic
• The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
• A New Philosophy of Society by Manuel DeLanda
• Deleuze - The Clamor of Being by Alain Badiou Translated by Louise Burchill
• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
• What is Philosophy? By Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
• Pure Immanence - Essays on a Life by Gilles Deleuze
• Anti-Oedipus - Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Giles Deleuze & Felix Guattari
• The Logic of Sense and Difference and Repetition by Giles Deleuze
• Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
• Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan
• History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
• And in the Penguin Books Great Ideas series (miniature philosophy if the larger ones are too big for you)
  • On Art and Life by John Ruskin
  • Why I Write by George Orwell
  • The City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan
  • The Pleasure of Hating by William Hazlitt
  • Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Arts and Architecture, Film and Fashion - Knit a house! Wear a film canister and a fashion statement! Paint a camera....

• The Pocket Idiot's Guide to: Great Photography by Shawn Frederick and Bill Gutman
• Thinking through Craft by Glenn Adamson
• Barcelona by Style City and Thames & Hudson
• The Rediscovery of Ireland’s Past – The Celtic Revival 1830-1930 by Jeanne Sheehy and George Mott
• Design and Undesign by Tibor Kalman
• Picasso – Artist of the Century by Jean Leymarie
• Sixty Years – Beano and The Dandy – Funshine and Laughter
• The Right to Write - An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life by Julia Cameron Author of the Artist's Way
• Star Wars – Episode 1 – The Visual Dictionary by David West Reynolds
• Star Wars – Attack of the Clones – The Visual Dictionary also by David West Reynolds
• Men’s Fashion – The Complete Sourcebook by John Peacock
• Tab Hunter Confidential - The Making of a Movie Star By Tab Hunter and Eddie Muller
• The Lord of the Rings – Weapons and Warfare by Chris Smith
• Runway Madness with photos by Lucian Perkins and text by Robin Givhan
• Fashionize – The Art of Fashion Illustration presented by Mondofragile

Science and Psychology, build your own Hadron Collider and then bombard it with positive affirmations and try and make a black hole of despair!

• Proust was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
• Wizard – The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla – Biography of a Genius by Marc J. Seifer
• Beyond the Pleasure Principle and Other Writings by Sigmund Freud
• Darwin’s Armada – How Four Voyagers to Australasia won the Battle for Evolution and Changed the World by Iain McCalman
• The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook - 77 Essential skills to stop climate change (or live through it) by David De Rothschild

Each week, we bring you the most tragic & fantastic piece of cover art that's crossed our desk.
The Pre-title to this is "I Smeared Myself with Brussel Sprouts... "

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
Science Fiction& Fantasy Fiction
Historical Novels
& Old Novels

Sorry - New books, and Non Fiction are not included

Recently arrived new books. For enquiries or to purchase, click here, type in the tag number and your contact details.

To see the complete list of available New Science Fiction and Fantasy, click here.
To see the complete list of available New Detective books, click here.
To see the complete list of available Rare and Antiquarian books, click here.

Shipping books out on the shelves this week....

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