Travels beneath the City Streets in the Company of Liars

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

Last days - be in quick!
A NEW ZEALAND LITERATURE SALE with great bargains!

Bargains galore!!

All New Zealand Fiction is on limited sale at one third off normal prices, and half off purchases of three books or more.

It’s a great opportunity to collect some nice editions of your favourite books or try out some new ones in time for New Zealand Literature Month.

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

Fictional Fun and Frivolity.
That's right the kids are back at school - now you can get a well earned break and maybe read a good book that doesn't have small talking animals, trains with self confidence issues or huggable bunnies.

• Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Company of Liars by Karen Maitland
• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
• The Little Prince (in HARDCOVER!!) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Aucassin and Nicolette by M S Henry
• The White Tiger by Aravina Adiga
• The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert
• The Old Man and the Sea (also in Hardcover, get in quick) by Ernest Hemingway
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• Little Birds by Anais Nin
• The Island by Aldous Huxley

Some of the New Zealand and Pacific books in this week.

• School Beginnings – A 19 th Century Colonial Story by Helen May
• The Pavlova Story – A Slice of New Zealand’s Culinary History by Helen Leach
• Feasts and Festivals – A Celebration of Pacific Island Culture in New Zealand by Genn Jowitt and Graeme Lay
• Dick Frizzell – Portrait of a Serious Artiste and new out…
• Dick Frizzell – The Painter – Live Clean and Let your Works be Seen with foreword by Hamish Keith
• First Catch Your Weka - A Story of New Zealand Cooking by David Veart
• Kiwi Companeros - New Zealand and the Spanish Civil War edited by Mark Derby
• Howard – Life and Times of Sir Howard Morrison by John Costello
• Man Alone by John Mulgan
• A large selection of Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand books including the monograph series and The Postage Stamps of New Zealand Volumes 6, 7 & 8
• A great selection of New Zealand books on Quakers including:
  • Remembrance of Friends Past - Testimonies and Memorials to Lives and Works of NZ Quakers who Died From 1843 to 1998 by Margaret West & Audrey Brodie
  • The NZ Journeys of Lucy Violet Hodgkin by Frances Henry edited by James & Audrey Brodie
  • A View of the Bay - Its Inhabitants Seen Through the Eyes of the 53-year-old Lucy Violet Holdsworth, the Newly-Wed Wife of John Holdsworth of "Swarthmoor" in Havelock North by Hodgkin, Lucy Violet edited by James & Audrey Brodie
• A pile in the series of Art in New Zealand quarterly magazines ranging from 1930 to 1941

Travels and Transport, History and Biography books.

• Underground – Travels on the Global Metro by Marco Pesaresi
• Edwardian Melbourne in Picture Postcards by Alexandra Bertram and Angus Trumble
• The Great Peking to Paris Expedition – The Ultimate Madcap Motoring Adventure by Warren Brown, Mick Matheson and Lang Kidby and photos by Bob Barker
• Underground London – Travels beneath the City Streets by Stephen Smith
• Extremes along the Silk Road – Adventures off the World’s Oldest Superhighway by Nick Middleton
• Journey to Khiva – Travels in Russian Central Asia by Philip Glazebrook
• Life at the Court of Queen Victoria 1861-1901 – Illustrated from the Collection of Lord Edward Pelham-Clinton, Master of the Household and edited Barry St-John Nevill
• A Short History of Nearly Everything in HB by Bill Bryson
• Churchill – A Study in Greatness by Geoffrey Best
• Charles II – His Life and Times – Illustrated edition by Antonia Fraser
• Leonardo Da Vinci – The Flights of the Mind by Charles Nicholl
• County Curiosities of England – An Illustrated Guide to more than 1000 Oddities… by Lynn Parr
• Stalin and his Hangmen by Donald Rayfield
• Not Even my Name – A True Story – Tracing the Fate of the Pontic Greeks in Post WW1 Turkey by Thea Halo
• Cowboys, Indians, and Gunfighters - The Story of the Cattle Kingdom by Albert Marrin
• The Assassin's Cloak - An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists edited by Irene and Alan Taylor
• The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles translated and edited by Michael Swanton

Media, War, Politics and Humanitarianism:

• Intro: A Beginner's Guide to Professional News Journalism - All new edition edited by Jim Tully (in association with New Zealand Journalists Training Organisation)
• Media Minefield - A Journalist's Guide to Media Regulation in New Zealand by Steven Price (in association with New Zealand Journalists Training Organisation)
• Notes from a Fractured Country - Selected Journalism by Jonny Steinberg
• The New New Journalism - Conversations with America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft edited by Robert S Boynton
• The Dressing Station – A Surgeon’s Odyssey by Jonathan Kaplan
• Flags of our Fathers by James Bradley with Ron Powers
• A Bed for the Night – Humanitarianism in Crisis by David Rieff
• Redcoat – The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket by Richard Holmes
• The Age of the Warrior by Robert Fisk
• Humanity - A Moral History of the Twentieth Century by Jonathan Glover
• Hitler's Scientists - Science, War and the Devil's Pact by John Cromwell
• The Gatekeepers of Galatas - The Untold Story by Brian Taafe
• The Last Fighting Tommy –The Life of Harry Patch, the only surviving Veteran of the Trenches by the late Harry Patch with Richard van Emden
• Nemesis – The Battle for Japan 1944-1945 by Max Hastings

Science and Philosophy, New Age, Pop Culture and Mythology titles...

• The Strangest Nab - The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac - Quantum Genius by Graham Farmelo
• A Short Treatise on the Great Virtues – The Uses of Philosophy in Everyday Life by André Comte-Sponville
• The Celtic Book of Living & Dying – The Illustrated Guide to Celtic Wisdom by Juliette Wood
• Brewers Dictionary of Phrase & Fable - Millennium Edition
• True Enough - Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society by Farhad Manjoo

Art, Photography, Fashion and Film

• Klee by Will Grohmann
• Cross by Kelly Klein [photographer]
• Anatomy for the Artist – 142 full-page plates by Jeno Barcsay
• Al Pacino – In Conversation with Lawrence Grobel
• Your Career in the Comics by Lee Nordling
• Picasso en Cataluña by Josep Palau u Fabre (in Spanish and English)
• Shoes by Judith Miller
• A Treatise of Japaning and Varnishing by Stalker and Parker
• Japanese Art - Masterpieces in the British Museum By Lawrence Smith, Victor Harris and Timothy Clark
• Theatrical Costume and the Amateur Stage by Michael Green

Sports including a glove-full of Boxing books:

• Primo – The Story of ‘Man Mountain’ Carnera, World Heavyweight Champion by Frederic Mullally
• More than a Game- The Story of Cricket's Early Years by John Major
• Muhammad Ali – Through the Eyes of the World compiled & edited by Mark Collings
• Mike Tyson – The Release of Power by Reg Gutteridge & Norman Giller
• Kostya – My Story by Kostya Tszyu
• The Harder they Fall by Budd Schulberg

Each week, we bring you the most tragic & fantastic piece of cover art that's crossed our desk.
Awww but they all look so clean-cut and wholesome!

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