Hornblower, Maori Folk Tales and Heath Robinson Railway Ribaldry

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.

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

Fictional Fun for the week includes a full set of Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe series in nice paperback editions, including a couple of short stories and The Sharpe Companion by Mark Adkin, so get in quick as these never last long.
Other highlights include:

• The Weeping Woman Hotel by Alexei Sayle
• Lieutenant Hornblower by C S Forester
• Mr Midshipman Hornblower by C S Forester
• Hornblower and the “Hotspur” by C S Forester
• Judas Unchained, Pandora’ Star, and The Reality Dysfunction, all by Peter F. Hamilton

And on that note, we have a Science Fantasy Overload.
The desk is full but there are only a few authors and they’re are fat books with favourite authors like: David Eddings (Malloreon and Belgariad series), Raymond E Feist (not Magician or the most recent ones but there are 12 going on the shelf today), Robin Hobb, Katherine Kerr (first two series), George R R Martin and Patricia Wrede.

New Zealand books this week include lots of fascinating local and regional histories.

• Up and Over the Hill by John W Barns-Graham
• Maori Folk Tales of the Port Hills by James Cowan
• Changing Days and Changing Ways - Collections and Recollections of Palmerston North and the Manawatu by Charlotte Eliot Warburton,
• The Other End of The Harbour - Little Port Cooper and Camp Bay by Mary Stapylton-Smith
• Early New Zealand Families by Douglas Cresswell
• Molesworth by Lance W McCaskill
• Tokanui - Slope Point - Haldane Centennial 1886-1986 by Margaret Lamont
• Cockle Cove - Marlborough Sounds Haven For Four Generations (signed by the author) by Lorna Manson
• Place-Names of Banks Peninsula - A Topographical History (1976 Capper Press reprint) by Johannes C Andersen
• And Place-Names of Banks Peninsula - A Topographical History (1927 edition with map) by Johannes C Andersen
• And finally Place Names New Zealand - Rules of Nomenclature and List of Names Approved, or Changed, or Expunged (1934 edition in Card Covers) by Johannes C Andersen
• My Dear Bannie - Gerhard Mueller's Letters from the West Coast 1865-6 by G Mueller
• Pamir - The Story of a Sailing Ship (1949 edition in Card Covers) by Sydney D Waters
• The 1950 Caxton Press edition of Mary Ursula Bethell’s Collected Poems
• A History of Fortrose - Toe Toes Riding The Toi Tois (signed by the author) by Joan MacIntosh
• Ellesmere County - The Land, the Lake, and the People, 1864-1964 by G W Graham & L J B Chapple
• Brind of the Bay of Islands - Some Readings and Notes of Thirty years in the Life of a Whaling Captain (the 1979 hardback limited edition of 400 copies signed by the author) by Jocelyn Chisholm
• Courage & Camp Ovens - Five Generations at Golden Bay by Enga Washbourn
• Daughters of The Wind - By Catamaran From England to New Zealand Via The Straits of Magellan - With Children on Board by David Lewis
• Do Nought Without a Bishop - Life of Henry John Chitty Harper by Barbara Griffiths
• Purau (1970) by Elisabeth Ogilvie
• The Precious Years - Further Stories of the Pioneering Days of Palmerston North and Districts in the Manawatu by A G S Bradfield
• Golden Harvest - Grass-Seeding Days on Banks Peninsula by John Coulson
• W H Pearson’s Henry Lawson Among Maoris
• Forest Homes - The Story of the Scandinavian Settlements in the Forty Mile Bush, New Zealand (1966 reprint) by George Conrad Petersen
• Stethoscope & Saddlebags - An Autobiography by Eleanor McLaglan
• The Chatham Islands - Their Plants, Birds and People by E C Richards
• A Holiday on Horseback - The Diary of a Tour from Blenheim to Hammer Springs, and Return, Via Molesworth (1947 edition in Card Covers) by George Drummond
• Stokes Valley … Through the Years by Milton & Poppy Watts
• Tam O'Shanter's Tales - Canterbury Country Ballads by Murray Patterson
• Beyond the Hills of Hundalee (1949 edition in Card Covers) by Thomas E L Roberts
• H F Ault’s, History of the Akaroa Parish 1851-1951
• Towards Banks Peninsula by Denis Glover
• Westport - Struggle For Survival - An Illustrated History by Bruce MacDonald
• The Midland Line - New Zealand's Trans-Alpine Railway (1988 2nd revised & expanded edition) by Geoffrey B Churchman
• Stories of York Bay - A Community Effort (signed by the author) by Ann Paterson

Art, Architecture, Fashion, Photography, House and Garden books. (You could start your own Grand Design or if you're broke or short of time, read about other peoples courageous adventures in Artistic Endeavours.)

• Art Deco – The Golden Age of Graphic Art & Illustration by Michael Robinson and Rosalind Ormiston
• Gardner’s Art Through the Ages – A Global History – Thirteenth Edition by Fred S. Kleiner
• Studies in the History of Art Vol. 10 – Macedonia and Greece in Late Classical and Early Hellenistic Times
• Gaia – Journey into Vanishing Worlds photography by Paige Deponte
• The Fashion House – Inside the Homes of Leading Designers by Lisa Lovatt-Smith
• National Gallery of Art, Washington
• A History of Architecture - Settings and Rituals by Spiro Kostof
• The Story of Archaeology edited by Paul G. Bahn
• Places- Inside Australian Houses by Earl Carter and Jean Wright
• DK The Royal Horticulture Society Learn to Garden – A Complete Introduction to Gardening

Cooking and just to be completely random a Golf book.

• Southern Table – Recipes and Gracious Traditions from Highlands Bar and Grill by Frank Stitt
• Complete Vegetarian Cookbook by Charmaine Soloman
• The New Book of Soups – A Complete Guide to Stocks, Ingredients, Preparation and Cooking Techniques, With Over 150 Tempting New Recipes by Anne Sheasby
• Golf Cures & Fixes – The Instant Improver for Every Single Golf Shot by Steve Newell.

We have some new titles on Trains and Railways with nary a Fat Controller to be seen!

• The Great Western Collection – The Guild of Railway Artists
• Modeler’s Guide to the GWR by T J Booth
• Steam Railways of Britain - The Pocket Encyclopaedia of World Railways in Colour by O S Nock
• Heath Robinson Railway Ribaldry
• Swindon’s Other Railway – The Midland and South Western Junction Railway 1900-1990 by Brian Bridgeman et al
• The Golden Years of British Steam Trains - GWR Great Western Railway by Colin Garratt

And for those of you who have been bitten by the travel bug (nasty little buggers those - don't forget to take some insect repellant) we have some less common Travel Guide titles come in as Lonely Planet brings us recent editions of:

• Athens Encounter
• South Africa –Lesotho & Swaziland
• Rome – City Guide
• Milan Encounter

And War titles almost in time for Armistice Day:

• War on the Western Front – In The Trenches of World War I edited by Dr. Gary Sheffield
• The Cold War by Lawrence Freedman
• Samurai – The World of the Warrior

Each week, we bring you the most tragic & fantastic piece of cover art that's crossed our desk.
Some people are just spoil sports!

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