What's New - New and exciting titles in this week at Arty Bees
Fiction for summer reading...
- Someone Knows my Name by Lawrence Hill
- Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer [2009]
- Pillars of the Earth and World Without End by Ken Follett in the shiny new format
- The Dreaming Void by Peter F.Hamilton
- The Religion by Tim Willocks
- A Feast of Crows and A Storm of Swords by George R R Martin
- Lots of titles by Tess Gerritsen
Great New Zealand titles in recently:
- The Oxford Companion to NZ Literature edited by Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie
- Where New Zealand Touches the World – From Farm Paddock to South Pacific Hub – A History of Auckland International Airport by Martyn Thompson and Alice Clements
- Against the Rising Sun – New Zealanders remember the Pacific War edited by Megan Hutching
- Anzac Memories – Images from the Great War compiled by Don Donovan
- Magnitude Eight Plus – NZ’s Biggest Earthquake by Rodney Grapes
- Spanish Mission Hastings – Styles of Five Decades by Peter Shaw and Peter
- A History of Hastings - City of the Plains by M.B Boyd
- Run the Lydiard Way by Arthur Lydiard with Garth Gilmour
- The Adventures of Kimble Bent by James Cowan [Capper reprint]
- Wellington – A Pictorial History by David Johnson
- Hell or High Water – NZ Merchant Seafarers remember the War edited by Neill Atkinson
- Infantry Brigadier by Major-General Sir Howard Kippenberger [PB]
- Captain Cook and the South Pacific – The British Museum Yearbook Three
- Dreamquake by Elizabeth Knox
Books on True Crimes that didn't pay.
We’ve had a large selection of the Notable British Trial series come in. The series, started as a hobby project in 1905, numbers over 80 volumes, covering trials from 1658 [with Mary Queen of Scots] to 1953. A glimpse of British justice from the age of the Block to the last days of the Hangman.
Titles we have include Oscar Wilde, Burke and Hare, Bywaters and Thompson, Mrs Maybrick, The Bloody Assizes, Mary Blandy, George Chapman, Roger Casement. A. J. Monson, Craig and Bentley, William Palmer, Dr. Lamson, The Veronica Mutineers, Madeleine Smith, Robert Wood, Thomas Muller, George Joseph Smith, J. A. Dickman, Guy Fawkes, Eugene Aram, Patrick Carraher, Mrs. McLachlan, Dr. Crippen, Peter Griffith, Ronald True and Neville Heath.
The unique value of these volumes is that they’re not bloody thrillers, nor legal textbooks, but detailed accounts of the trials drawn from official court documents and expert testimony. It’s the closest you’ll get to sitting in the courtroom listening along with the judge and jury.
Food books for foody fans
- Jamie Oliver – Jamie’s Kitchen and Jamie’s Dinners – The Essential Cookbook
- Vitamins and Minerals – A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding your Daily Diet and Nutrition by Eleanor Stillwell
- Friuli Venezia Giulia – Path of Flavours by Walter Filiputti and Stefano Scatà
- Appetite by Nigel Slater
- Zarbo Zest - Café Treats – Deli Delights by Mark McDonough
- Fresh – The Ultimate Live-Food Cookbook – Over 250 Recipes from the Raw Family Test-Kitchen by Sergei and Valya Boutenko
- Gordon Ramsay’s Healthy Appetite – Recipes from the F Word
- Black Gold – A Dark History of Coffee by Antony Wild
History, History, History and Biographies and Politics!
- Speeches that Changed the World – Over 100 of the most Influential Speeches Ever Made
- Essence and Alchemy – A Book of Perfume by Mandy Aftel
- Harrods – A Selection from Harrods General Catalogue 1929 – There is only One Harrods
- Queens Consort – England’s Medieval Queens by Lisa Hilton
- Twelve Days Revolution 1956 – How the Hungarians tried to topple their Soviet Masters by Victor Sebestyen
- Balkan Ghosts – A Journey through History by Robert D Kaplan [HB]
- Egypt, Greece and Rome – Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean by Charles Freeman
- The Yellow Cross – The Story of the Last Cathars 1290-1329 by René Weis
- Empires of Time – Calendars, Clocks and Cultures by Anthony Aveni
- Mrs Chippy’s Last Expedition 1914-1915 – The Remarkable Journal of Shackleton’s Polar-bound Cat
- Bobbie and Jackie – A Love Story by C. David Heymann
- The English Prisoner – The Gripping True Story of One Man’s Survival inside a Russian Prison Camp by Tig Hague
- Alice – Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker by Stacy A Cordery
- The Blair Years – Extracts from the Alistair Campbell Diaries
Books about Travel and Places to go, and Military and Transport - fun things to do while you're there...
- The Americas – The History of a Hemisphere by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
- A Corkscrew is Most Useful – The Travellers of Empire by Nicholas Murray
- Beyond the Oxus – The Central Asians by Monica Whitlock
- Footprint South America Handbook 2009
- The Rape of Nanking – The Forgotten Holocaust of WW2 by Iris Chang
- 102 Minutes – The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive inside the Twin Towers by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn
- Bushido – The Way of the Warrior – A New Perspective on the Japanese Military Tradition by John Newman
- Complete Book of World War II Combat Aircraft by Angelucci, Matricardi and Pinto
- The Flying Book – Everything you’ve ever Wondered about Flying on Airplanes by David Blatner
- The Three Trillion Dollar War – The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict by Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes
- Classic Pickups of the 1950s by Mike Mueller [no, not chat-up lines]
- The Secret History of the Iraq War by Yossef Bodansky
Philosophy and Pop Culture, Books and Literati titles...
- The Architecture of Happiness – The Secret Art of Furnishing your Life by Alain de Botton
- You’ll never be 16 again – An Illustrated History of the British Teenager by Peter Everett
- Kant and the Platypus – Essays on Language and Cognition by Umberto Eco
- Cannabis – So good no one will need to do another for at least fifty years by Martin Booth
- How Proust can Change your Life and Essays in Love, both by Alain de Botton
- Betjeman by A. N. Wilson
- Pages Passed from Hand to Hand – The Hidden Tradition of Homosexual Literature in English from 1748 to 1914 edited by Mark Mitchell and David Leavitt
Art, Photography and Architecture, Craft and Garden books...
- Architecture Now! by Philip Jodidio and Taschen, the first volume, second hand
- Churches and Cathedrals – Masterpieces of Architecture by Stacey McNutt
- Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling by Ross King.
- Madagascar by Gian Paolo Barbieri
- 150 Years of Photo Journalism Volume 2 – Hulton Deutsch Collection by Amanda Hopkinson
- Frank Lloyd Wright – A Visual Encyclopedia by Iain Thomson
- Frank Lloyd Wright by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer
- Garden Graphics – How to Plan and Map your Garden by Gemma Nesbitt
- Cross Stitch Country Garden by Jane Iles
- A Garden in the Hills – A Tale of Selling Up, Digging in and Growing Things by Chrstine McCabe
- Stencil Source Book – Over 200 Designs to make Stencils by Patricia Meehan
- Beautiful Bargello by Joyce Petschek
- Design your own Cross Stitch to complement your Home by Shirley Watts
Great titles on Music and Dance, Fashion and Film:
- Inside Out – A Personal History of Pink Floyd by Nick Mason
- Isadora – A Sensational Life by Peter Kurth
- Gotta Sing Gotta Dance – A History of Movie Musicals by John Kobal
- Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop – A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang
- The Autobiography of John Cale by Victor Bockris and John Cale
- What Should I Wear? Dressing for Occasions by Chic Simple
- People in Vogue – A Century of Portraits edited by Robin Derrick and Robin Muir
- Entirely up to you, Darling by Richard Attenborough and Diana Hawkins
- The New Look – The Dior Revolution by Nigel Cawthorne
Natural History and Science books just in:
- The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
- Small World – Uncovering Nature’s Hidden Networks by Mark Buchanan
- Signor Marconi’s Magic Box – How an Amateur Inventor defied Scientists & began the Radio Revolution by Gavin Weightman
- Dawkins vs. Gould – Survival of the Fittest by Kim Sterelny
- Perfect Copy – Unravelling the Cloning Debate by Nicholas Agar
- Collapse – How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
- Trees of the World by Graeme Matthews and Mike Wilcox
- The Wilderness Family – At Home with Africa’s Wildlife by Kobie Krüger
- Farewell, my Subaru – An epic adventure in Local Living by Doug Fine
- Going Green – Hints and Tips to Reduce your Carbon Footprint by Vivian Head
Titles on Sports and Religion - guess which are which...
- More than a Game – The Story of Cricket’s Early Years by John Major
- The Story of God – A Personal Journey into the World of Science and Religion by Robert Winston
- Under the Banner of Heaven – A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
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