Queen Victoria hated Zombies... and the Flaming Tantrum of Death

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News at Arty Bees Books

We're on our Annual Christmas Buying Holiday.

We will not be purchasing stock from tomorrow,
Friday 11th DECEMBER
and will not start purchasing stock again until
Monday 11th JANUARY

We regret any inconvenience this may cause - as usual we are still taking small exchanges and credits to shop cards.

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

Fiction titles that caught our eye this week include Slant of the Wind by Garland Roark, the hilariously titled Queen Victoria Demon Hunter – She Loved her Country - She Hated Zombies by A E Moorat and Vice Versa – A Lesson to Fathers by F Anstey.

And for the Science Fiction and Graphic Novel fans we've had Battlestar Galactica – Complete Omnibus V.1 by Pak, Raynor, Jerwa and Lau and Batman – Year One by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli with Richmond Lewis

Poetry and other Literary gems curiously devoid of zombies that have come in....

• William Blake – Selected Poems
• Books that Changed the World – The 50 Most Influential Books in Human History by Andrew Taylor
• The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death – Reflections on Revenge, Germophobia and Laser Hair Removal by Laurie Notaro
• Dickens by Peter Ackroyd
• New Cautionary Tales and The Modern Traveller by Hillaire Belloc

New Zealand Books!

• Making Peoples - A History of the New Zealanders from Polynesian Settlement to the End of the 19 th Century by James Belich
• Paradise Reforged - A History of the New Zealanders from the 1880s to the Year 2000 also by James Belich
• On Active Service – 4177 O.R. Gatman 2NZEF September 1939 – November 1941 by Martyn Thompson
• The Turbulent Years 1870-1900 – The Maori Biographies from the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography Vol. 2.
• Saloon Motorsport in New Zealand by Tim Chadwick
• Wellington – Portrait of the Region by Graham Stewart
• Night After Night – New Zealanders in Bomber Command by Max Lambert
• Terawhiti and the Goldfields by James Brodie
• Games and Pastimes of the Maori by Elsdon Best (pb)
• Landscapes of Conflict – A Field Guide to the New Zealand Wars by Nigel Prickett
• Fishing from the Boat Ramp by Jillian Sullivan (2009)
• Kiwis in Khaki - A Pictorial History of the New Zealand Soldier in WW2 by David Filer
• New Zealand Flora and Fauna
• The Field Guide to the Birds of New Zealand by Barrie Heather and Hugh Robertson and illustrated by Derek Onley
• New Zealand Medicinal Plants by S G Brooker, R C Cambie and R C Cooper
• Native Edible Plants of New Zealand by Andrew Crowe
• Maori Bird Lore by Murdoch Riley

Recent arrivals in the History and Biography shelves this week:

• Beneath the Seven Seas – Adventures with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology edited by George F Bass
• 18 Folgate Street – The Tale of a House in Spitalfields by Dennis Severs
• The Necklace – A True Story of 13 Women, One Diamond Necklace and a Fabulous Idea by Cheryl Jarvis
• Victorian and Edwardian Boating from old Photographs by Neil Wigglesworth
• A Book of Medieval Outlaws – Ten Tales in Modern English edited by Thomas H. Ohlgren
• My Life by Fidel Castro with Ignacio Ramonet
• What the Dog Saw and other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
• China Witness – Voices from a silent generation by Xinran
• We Went for Australia’s Flying Doctors – The 1996 Outback Car Trek for the Royal Flying Doctor Service by Richard Woldendorp and Roger McDonald
• Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore

And on the subject of World Domination and Fish for Supper we have some excellent titles for connoisseurs this week, like The Thoughts of Chairman Miaow by Andrew Davies and Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat and The Days are Just Packed – Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

And to continue in the quest for power theme... Military and Transport, Media, Religion and Politics books...

• In the Shadow of Swords – On the Trail of Terrorism from Afghanistan to Australia by Sally Neighbour
• The Story of Zarak Khan by A J Bevan
• Wings of Madness - Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight by Paul Hoffman
• Autumn of the Moguls by Michael Wolff
• The Assault on Reason – How the Politics of Fear, Secrecy and Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision-Making, Degrade Democracy and Imperil America and the World by Al Gore
• The Spirit of Peace – Teachings on Love, Compassion and Everyday Life by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

For something better for the soul than World Domination we have books on Health and Relationships:

• Hoi Polloi by Craig Sherbourne
• Where did I Leave my Glasses? – The What, When and Why of Normal Memory Loss by Martha Weinman Lear
• The Way of Herbs – Complete, Easy-to-Use Information on Simple Herbal Remedies for Natural Health and Healing by Michael Tierra
• The Way of Chinese Herbs – The Most Complete Guide to Natural Healing and Health with Traditional Chinese Herbalism also by Michael Tierra
• Life After Birth by Kate Figes
• In His Sights – A True Story of Love and Stalking by Kate Brennan
• Gone – A Mother’s 14-Year Search for her Abducted Daughter by Margaret Wilcox

Photography, Film and Architecture books - yum yum yum...

• The Making of a House by Janne Faulkner and Harley Anstee
• Inside Art Deco – A Pictorial Tour of Deco Interiors from their Origins to Today by Lucy D Rosenfeld
• The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe by J. Randy Taraborrelli
• A Tree, A Blade of Grass – Photographs by Shinzo Maeda
• Diana – The Portrait
• Book of Houses by Simone Schleifer

And Art, Craft and Design books - num num num...

• Blast! – Pat Hanly the painter and his protests by Trish Gribben
• Watercolour Wisdom – Lessons from a Lifetime of Painting and Teaching by Jo Taylor
• Colour by Victoria Finlay
• Something to be Desired - Essays on Design by Veronique Vienne
• The Bible in Pictures - From the Workshop of Lucas Cranach (1534) by Stephan Fussel and Benedickt Taschen
• Georgia O’Keeffe - A Life by Roxana Robinson
• Knitting for Beginners – Learn to Knit with 20 Hot Projects by Sasha Kagan

And of course all that talk of yummy books has to lead to books of yummy Food!

• Noosa – The Cookbook
• Good Living - Summer by Jill Dupleix & Stephen Alexander
• Feasts of Provence by Robert Carrier
• Cakes and Slices – Reliable Recipes from the Murdoch Books Test Kitchen
• World Cuisine – Thailand and World Cuisine Japan

Science and Nature titles:

• Brainwashing - The Science of Thought Control by Kathleen Taylor
• Volcano – Portrait of a World on Fire by Donna O’Meara
• Justice on Earth – Earthjustice and the People it has Served by Tom Turner
• I am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter
• Before the Fall-Out – From Marie Curie to Hiroshima – The Human Chain Reaction that led to the Atom Bomb by Diana Preston
• Collapse – How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
• When Elephants Weep – The Emotional Lives of Animals by Jeffrey Masson and Susan McCarthy
• Planet Earth by Ed Riley and Sandra Forty
• The Ferocious Summer - Palmer’s Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica by Meredith Hooper
• The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency by John Seymour
• Whales by Phil Clapham
• The Pinball Effect How Renaissance Water Gardens made the Carburetor possible and other Journeys through Knowledge by James Burke, creator of `Connections.’
• Bully for Brontosaurus – Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould

Latest great titles on Travel, Places, Sports and Exploration to come in this week...

• The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevara
• The Spirit of Cricket – A Personal Anthology by Christopher Martin-Jenkins
• Children of Kali – Through India in search of Bandits, the Thug Culture and the British Raj by Kevin Rushby
• In Sicily by Norman Lewis (HB)
• Bad Intentions – The Mike Tyson Story by Peter Heller
• The Eiffel Tower - A Centenary Celebration by Winnie Denker and Francoise Sagan
• The National Geographic Society - 100 Years of Adventure and Discovery by C D B Bryan (Updated edition)
• Waves – Great Stories from the Surf edited by Tim Baker
• Over the Edge of the World – Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen
• Young Husband – The Last Great Imperial Adventurer by Michael Holroyd
• Stone Voices – The Search for Scotland by Neal Ascherson

Beatles and Beetles (well, and Cars actually…) …`Baby you can drive my car… ♪♪’ J

• John Lennon – We All Shine On – The Stories Behind Every John Lennon Song 1970-1980 by Paul Du Noyer
• American Muscle – Muscle Cars from the Otis Chandler Collection by Randy Leffingwell
• Beetle Mania – Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bug - A History and Celebration of an Unlikely Icon by Alessandro Pasi
• John, Paul, George, Ringo and Me – The Real Beatles Story by Tony Barrow, Press Officer to the Fab Four
• A Hard Day’s Write – The Stories behind every Beatles Song by Steve Turner
• Lennon in America – 1971-1980, Based in Part on the Lost Lennon Diaries by Geoffrey Giuliano
• The Ultimate History of the Corvette by Trevor Legate
• Concept Cars and Prototypes – Exploring the Future of the Automobile by Richard Dredge
• Bambina – The Fiat 500 in New Zealand by Todd Niall
• The Beatles - Then There Was Music by Tim Hill (book of photographs from the Daily Mail)
• Images of The Beatles by Tim Hill (more photographs from the Daily Mail)
• John Lennon – The Illustrated Biography – Classic, Rare and Unseen – Photographs by the Daily Mail by Gareth Thomas
• Dark Horse – The Secret Life of George Harrison by Geoffrey Giuliano
• The Beatles - Icons of Our Time by Tim Hill

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