Headtrips, Fatal Voyages and Ladies Ordeals

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

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

Fiction

• The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
• The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald – A New Collection edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli
• Beowulf – Bilingual Edition by Seamus Heaney
• Soon I Will be Invincible by Austin Grossman
• Pulp Fiction – The Dames edited by Otto Penzler
• A River runs through it by Norman MacLean with wood engravings by Barry Moser

Comics

• Ultimate Spiderman series – Public Scrutiny, Legacy and Irresponsible
• Ultimate X-Men – Hellfire and Brimstone

New Zealand

• The Reed Dictionary of Modern Maori by PM Ryan
• Maori Healing and Herbal – New Zealand Ethnobotanical Sourcebook by Murdoch Riley and photos by Brian Enting
• At Home – A Century of New Zealand Design by Douglas Lloyd Jenkins
• Welcome to the South Seas – Contemporary New Zealand Art for Young People by Gregory O’Brien
• The Living Reef – The Ecology of New Zealand’s Rocky Reefs edited by Neil Andrew & Malcolm Francis
• New Zealand Listener – Places from the pages of the New Zealand Listener
• The Angel’s Cut – The Sequel to the Vintner’s Luck by Elizabeth Knox
• Temuera Morrison – From Haka to Hollywood by Paul Little

History and Biography

• You Said What? Lies and Propaganda Throughout History edited by Bill Fawcett
• The Double Life of Doctor Lopez – Spies, Shakespeare & the Plot to Poison Elizabeth I by Dominic Green
• Illustrated Book of Steam and Rail – The History and Development of the Train and an Evocative Guide to the World’s Great Railway Journeys by Colin Garratt and Max Wade-Matthews
• Barbed Wire – A History by Olivier Razac
• Falling Blossom – A True Story by Peter Pagnamenta and Momoko Williams
• Our Times – The Age of Elizabeth II by A. N. Wilson
• Sylvia’s Farm – The Journal of an Improbable Shepherd by Sylvia Jorrin
• Captives – Britain, Empire and the World 1600 – 1850 by Linda Colley
• Inventing Millions – 25 Inventions that Changed the World [and made Millions for their Inventors] by Simon Torok and Paul Holper
• The Tower Menagerie – The Amazing True Story of the Royal Collection of Wild Beasts by Daniel Hahn
• Colour – Travels through the Paintbox by Victoria Finlay
• Georgiana’s World – The Illustrated Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman
• Compañero – The Life and Death of Che Guevara by Jorge Castañeda
• Civil War by Taylor Downing and Maggie Millman, based on Channel 4 documentary series
• Faces of a Nation – The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union 1917-1991 with photos by Dimitri Baltermants
• The Secret History of the World by Jonathan Black
• Dreams from my Father – A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
• Green Gold – The Empire of Tea – A Remarkable History of the Plant that Took over the World by Alan and Iris MacFarlane

Travel and Places

• A Year in Tibet – A Voyage of Discovery by Sun Shuyun
• Dastgah – Diary of a Headtrip by Mark Mordue
• Mutiny on the Globe – The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock by Thomas Farel Heffernan
• Adventures in Caravanastan – Around Australia at 80kms by Greg Bearup
• Beyond the Coral Sea – Travels in the Old Empires of the South-West Pacific by Michael Moran
• The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh – A Woman in World History by Linda Colley
• The Travel Book – A Journey through Every Country in the World by Lonely Planet
• This Way to the Sea – The True Story of a New Life with an Old Love by Gillian Nicholson

Military, Media and Transport

• The World Encyclopedia of Knives, Daggers and Bayonets by Dr. Tobias Capwell
• The Cold War – A Military History by David Miller
• Decision in Normandy – The Real Story of Montgomery and the Allied Campaign by Carlo D’Este
• Hitler – 1936–1945 Nemesis by Ian Kershaw
• Ocean Liners – The Golden Years – A Pictorial Anthology by Rupert Prior
• Stalingrad 1942–1943 – The Infernal Cauldron by Stephen Walsh
• The Ultimate Harley Davidson – An Encyclopedia of the Definitive Motorbike from Classic to Custom – Exploring the Legend of an American Dream by Mac McDiarmid
• In Retrospect – The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam by Robert S McNamara
• The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Kesselring with a new introduction by Kenneth Macksey
• We Did Nothing – Why the Truth Doesn’t Always Come Out when the UN Goes In by Linda Polman
• The Longest Battle – The War at Sea 1939-1945 by Richard Hough
• Blood of Spain – An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War by Ronald Fraser
• Hitler’s Propaganda Machine by Ward Rutherford
• Hello Missus – A Girl’s own Guide to Foreign Affairs by Lynne Minion

Plus a stash of pictorial WW2 books just in, mainly on the Nasty Nazis

Cooking

• New England – New American Cooking by Molly Stevens
• Not Becoming My Mother and Other Things She Taught me Along the Way by Ruth Reichl
• Morning Fires, Evening Lights – The Marlboro Country Cookbook
• The World Encyclopedia of Cheese – A Guide to the World’s Cheese with a Feast of International Dishes by Juliet Harbutt
• Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home – Fast and Easy Recipes for Any Day by the Moosewood Collective
• A Cook’s Tour – In Search of the Perfect Meal by Anthony Bourdain
• New Covent Garden Soup Company’s Book of Soups – New, Old and Odd Recipes

Architecture and Design

• Harvest – FutureFarmers 1995-2002
• Wineries – Architecture and Design by Hans Hartje and Jeanlou Perrier
• Federation Square by Hardie Grant Books
• Apartment – Stylish Solutions for Apartment Living by Alan Powers
• The Oral History of Modern Architecture – Interviews with the Greatest Architects of the 20 th Century by John Peter, includes CD
• The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A Norman
• Zen Interiors by Vinny Lee
• Next Generation Architecture – Contemporary Digital Experimentation & The Radical Avant-Garde by Joseph Rosa
• Brussels – The Art of Living by Piet Swimberghe and Jan Verlinde

Art and Photography

• The Pop-Up Book – Step by Step Instructions for Creating Over 100 Original Paper Projects by Paul Jackson
• Picasso by Patrick O’Brien and Life with Picasso by Francoise Gilot and Carlton Lake
• The World of Salvador Dali by Robert Descharnes
• The Venetian’s Wife by Nick Bantock
• Medieval Art – Foundations of a New Humanism 1280-1440 by Georges Duby
• The Flowering of the Middle Ages edited by Joan Evans
• Artist’s Materials – All the Materials you will ever need to make Art by Lorraine Harrison
• Banksy – Wall and Piece
• Art in Renaissance Italy by Evelyn Welch
• Painting, Power & Patronage – The Rise of the Professional Artist in Renaissance Italy by Bram Kempers
• J. W. Waterhouse by Peter Trippi
• How to Visit a Museum by David Finn
• Family – Moments Intimacy Laughter Kinship by M.I.L.K

Language and Literati

• Never let a Fool Kiss you or a Kiss Fool you – Word Play for Word Lovers by Dr. Mardy Grothe
• Beat Writers at Work – The Paris Review Interviews edited by George Plimpton
• The Unforgiving Minute – A Life of Rudyard Kipling by our very own Harry Ricketts J
• F**k It – The Ultimate Spiritual Way by John C. Parkin
• Language Myths edited by Laurie Bauer and Peter Trudgill
• Ted Hughes – The Life of a Poet by Elaine Feinstein
• A Pocket Guide – The Welsh Language by Janet Davies
• Presents of the Past – Literature in English before 1900 by Brian Boyd

Music, Fashion and the Performing Arts

• The Facts of Life and other Dirty Jokes by Willie Nelson
• Moulin Rouge – A Film directed by Baz Luhrmann
• Markova – The Legend – The Authorised Biography by Maurice Leonard
• Sex and the City – Kiss and Tell
• The Design and Creation of Jewellery by Robert von Neumann
• The Book of General Ignorance – A QI Book by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson
• The Bad and the Beautiful – A Chronicle of Hollywood in the Fifties by Sam Kashner & Jennifer MacNair
• Handbags – The Power of the Purse by Anna Johnson
• Bags – A Lexicon of Style by Valerie Steele and Laird Borrelli

Philosophy, Religions and New Age

• Work as a Spiritual Practice – How to bring Depth and Meaning to the Work you do by Lewis Richmond
• The Illuminated Walden – In the Footsteps of Thoreau with Photographs by John Wawrzonek
• After the Ecstasy, the Laundry – How the Heart grows Wise on the Spiritual Path by Jack Kornfield
• 50 Philosophy Ideas you really Need to Know by Ben Dupré
• In Search of Zarathustra – The First Prophet and the Ideas that Changed the World by Paul Kriwaczek

Pop Culture and Etiquette, Health and Psychology

• Higher and Higher – from Drugs and Destruction to Health and Happiness by Jost Sauer
• Etiquette for Women – A Book of Modern Manners and Customs by Irene Davison
• The Fit Back – Pain Relief and Prevention by the editors of Time Life Books
• The only book you’ll ever need – Chunklet presents the Overrated Book edited by Henry H Owings
• Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited by Sam Vaknin

Science, Natural History and Gardening

• The Self-Sufficient Gardener by John Seymour
• The Devil’s Doctor – Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science by Philip Ball
• John Brookes’ Garden Design Book – Complete Practical Guide to Planning, Styling and Planting any Garden

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