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 new Terry Pratchett - Unseen Academicals is out today - get in quick as there is no time to be wasted - Come on, you could be laughing already!

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

Film, Fashion and Comics are instore now - check out...

• Frank Miller’s Sin City – The Making of the Movie by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez
• Cinema Year by Year – The Complete Illustrated History of Film by DK
• `When Philip Met Isabella’ by Philip Treacy
• Hellboy – Strange Places and Hellboy – Conqueror Worm by Mike Mignola
• 501 Movie Directors – A Comprehensive Guide to the Greatest Filmmakers by Steven Jay Scheider
• Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat – A Calvin and Hobbes Collection by Bill Watterson
• The Essential Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

A smattering of the New Zealand books in this week include We Set Out One Morning – Works from the BNZ Art Collection by Gregory O’Brien, Captain Cook’s Hawaii – As Seen by his Artists by Anthony Murray-Oliver, The Natural History of Canterbury edited by G. A. Knox and the latest by Joe Bennett The World’s your Lobster.

History, Travel and Biographies to whet your whistle...

• The Lost Ark of the Covenant – The Remarkable Quest for the Legendary Ark by Tudor Parfitt
• Ceská Republicka by Miroslav Krob
• Captain Bligh’s Portable Nightmare – From the Bounty to Safety – 4162 miles across the Pacific in a Rowing Boat by John Toohey
• The History of Lesbian Hair – and Other tales of Bent Life in a Straight World by Mary Dugger
• The Open Spaces of London by Alec Forshaw and Theo Bergström
• Sex with the Queen – 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers and Passionate Politics by Eleanor Herman
• Cultural Caravan of Pakistan by M. Hanif Raza
• Branson by Tom Bower and, in his own version of events – Losing my Virginity by Richard Branson

Literati, Language, Religion and Philosophy to boggle your mind...

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Living to Tell the Tale
• The New Joys of Yiddish by Leo Rosten – Completely Updated
• The Mystery of Moral Re-Armament – A Study of Frank Buchman and his Movement by Tom Driberg
• A Woman Reads the Gospel of Luke by Loretta Dornisch
• On Desire – Why we Want what we Want by William B. Irvine
• DK Illustrated Dictionary of Religions – Figures, Festivals and Beliefs of the World’s Religions by Philip Wilkinson

Military, Media, Crime and Drugs to give you a thrill...

• The Wolf of Wall Street – Stock-market Multimillionaire at 26, Federal Convict at 36 by Jordan Belfort
• D-Day – The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor (Proof copy of his latest)
• War Reporting for Cowards – Between Iraq and a Hard Place by Chris Ayres
• Classics of the Air – An illustrated History of the Development of Military Planes from 1913-1935 –
• Complete with Technical Specifications by Golden Press
• Cannabis – A History by Martin Booth
• Cocaine – An Unauthorised Biography by Dominic Streatfeild

Antiques, Art and Crafts, with some Crystals and Mythology thrown in for spooky good luck...

• The Beatrix Potter Knitting Book by Pat Menchini
• The Calligraphy Source Book – The Essential Reference for all Calligraphers compiled by Miriam Stribley
• Könemann’s Wristwatches – Armbanduhren – Montres-bracelets by Gisbert L. Brunner & Christian Pfeiffer-Belli
• Vitamin D – New Perspectives in Drawing by Phaidon
• Lightseeds - A Compendium of Ancient and Contemporary Crystal Knowledge by Wind & Reed
• The Complete Crystal Guidebook by Uma Silbey
• Crystal Enlightenment, Crystal Healing and The Crystalline Transmission all by Katrina Raphaell
• DK Annotated Guide – Myths and Legends by Neil Philip

And some Science and Nature and Rudolf Steiner titles as well...

• The Complete Encyclopedia of Birds and Bird Migration by Christopher M. Perrins and Jonathan Elphick
• DK’s Animal – The Definitive Visual Guide to the World’s WIldlife
• And by Rudolf Steiner
  • Theosophy
  • The Christ Impulse and the Development of the Ego-Consciousness
  • Four Mystery Plays
  • True and False Paths in Spiritual Investigation
  • Anthroposophical Ethics
  • The Fifth Gospel
  • Anthroposphical Leading Thoughts

Each week, we bring you the most tragic & fantastic piece of cover art that's crossed our desk.
Oh dear, what is the world coming to...

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