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News at Arty Bees Books

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

Fiction

• Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
• Kurt Vonnegut Octopus giant edition including
  • Slaughterhouse Five,
  • The Sirens of Titan,
  • Player Piano,
  • Cat’s Cradle,
  • Breakfast of Champions
  • and Mother Night
• And an Octopus giant edition of George Orwell, including
  • Animal Farm,
  • Burmese Days,
  • A Clergyman’s Daughter,
  • Coming up for Air,
  • Keep the Aspidistra Flying
  • and 1984
• `…And their Memory was a Bitter Tree…’ Queen of the Black Coast and Others by Robert E Howard
• Landscape Painted with Tea - a novel by Milorad Pavic
• Edgar Allan Poe – Collected Stories and Poems – Illustrated

Books, Poetry and Essays, Reference and Literati

• Collected Short Stories by Roald Dahl
• The Sixties by Jenny Diski
• Selected Poems 1923-1958 and 100 Selected Poems by e. e. cummings
• Three Days with Joyce with photos by Gisèle Freund
• 12 Books that Changed the World – How Words and Wisdom have Shaped our Lives by Melvin Bragg
• Twilight of Love- Travels with Turgenev by Robert Dessaix
• Lit – A Memoir by Mary Karr, author of The Liars’ Club
• An Incomplete Education – From Quark to Quattrocento… by Judy Jones and William Wilson

Comics

• Johnny The Homicidal Maniac - The Director’s Cut by Jhonen Vaszuez
• McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern – Issue No. 13 –
• An Assorted Sampler of North American Comic Drawings, Strips and Illustrated Stories etc

New Zealand

• Moa – The Dramatic Story of the Discovery of a Giant Bird by Richard Wolfe
• From Poverty Bay to Broadway – The Story of Tom Heeney by Lydia Monin
• Parihaka – The Art of Passive Resistance by City Gallery
• Sketches from Early New Zealand – Some Nineteenth Century Engravings introduced by Laurie Barber
• Te Rongoa Maori – Maori Medicine by P. M. E. Williams
• Goldie by Roger Blackley
• HMNZS Gambia by Jack S. Harker
• Lands for the People? The Highland Clearances and the Colonisation of New Zealand – A Biography of John McKenzie by Tom Brooking
• Tarawera – The Destruction of the Pink and White Terraces by Geoff Conly
• The Great New Zealand Song Book

History, Media and Biography

• Universal Foam – The Story of Bubbles, From Cappuccino to the Cosmos by Sidney Perkowitz
• Weight – The Myth of Atlas the Heracles by Jeanette Winterson
• Kilvert’s Diary 1870-1879 – Life in the English Countryside in Mid-Victorian Times
• Showa – The Japan of Hirohito edited by Carol Gluck and Stephen R. Graubard
• The Great Bridge – The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough
• Ancient World in your Pocket – over 3000 Essential Facts edited by Paul Bahn
• Richistan – A Journey through the 21 st Century Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich by Robert Frank

Places, Travel and Mountaineering

• Africa – Natural Spirit of the African Continent by Gill Davies
• The Stones of Florence – The Acclaimed Book about the Wonders of the Famed Italian City by Mary McCarthy
• A Day in New York with photography with 4 CDs by André Fichte
• Taschen Great Escapes - Asia
• Prague in Black and Gold – The History of a City by Peter Demetz
• One Hundred and One Beautiful Towns in Great Britain by Tom Aitken
• The Beckoning Silence by Joe Simpson

Military

• Aircraft Carriers of the World, 1914 to the Present – An Illustrated Encyclopedia by Roger Chesneau
• The Longest Tunnel – The True Story of the Great Escape by Alan Burgess
• The Puzzle Palace – Inside the National Security Agency – America’s most Secret Intelligence Organization by James Bamford
• The War at Sea – Royal and Dominion Navy Actions in WW2 by Gordon Smith
• Burma – The Longest War 1941-1945 by Louis Allen
• Hitler’s Field Marshals and their Battles by Samuel W. Mitcham Jr.
• The Nazis by George Bruce
• Fleet to Fleet Encounters – Tsushima, Jutland, Philippine Sea by Eric Grove
• Camel Drivers – The 17 th Aero Squadron in World War One by Otis Lowell Reed and George Roland
• War Diary 1939-1945 – The story of WW2 in the words of those who lived through it by various
• Anatomy of a Ship series - The Battlecruiser Hood by John Roberts and
• The Aircraft Carrier Victorious – Anatomy of a Ship by Ross Watton
• Spoken from the Front – Real Heroes from the Battlefields of Afghanistan edited by Andy McNab

Transport and Sport

• Stirling Moss – The Champion Without a Crown – Formula 1 Legends by Pierre Menard and Jacques Vassal
• Next Man Up – A Year behind the Lines in Today’s NFL by John Feinstein
• West McLaren Mercedes – Teamwork – The Biography of the Formula 1 Team by Gerald Donaldson
• Supercars – Driving the Dream by Adam Phillips
• Breaking the Chain – Drugs and Cycling – The True Story by Willy Voet
• World Motor Racing Circuits – A Spectator’s Guide by Peter Higham and Bruce Jones
• Sir William Lyons – The Official Biography – Jaguar by Philip Porter and Paul Skilleter
• Jaguar – The Engineering Story by Jeff Daniels
• Luxury Liners – Their Golden Age and the Music Played Aboard with 4 CDs by earBOOKS
• McLaren – The Epic Years by Alan Henry
• CAN-AM by Pete Lyons
• The Heyday of the DMU by Alan C. Butcher
• The American Railroad Freight Car – From the Wood-Car Era to the Coming of Steel by John H. White Jnr
• The Powerbrokers – The Battle for FI’s Billions by Alan Henry
• Rail Portfolios – The 47s compiled by Howard Johnstone and The Cromptons compiled by Colin J. Marsden

Plus Buses, Buses, Buses!

• Southdown Days by Glyn Kraemer-Johnson and John Bishop
• Provincial Buses in Colour – 1960s by B.S. Watson
• The following titles in the Glory Days Series of Bus Company Histories:
• Tilling Group, Ribble, Southdown, BET Group, Aldershot and District and British Trams
• And the following titles in the Heyday of the Bus Series:
  • The Postwar Years,
  • 1960s Revisited,
  • The Classic Bus,
  • North West,
  • Blackpool’s Trams,
  • Half-Cab
  • and Yorkshire

Food and Cooking – Because you can’t have your bus and eat it too…

• The Seasons Plate Cookbook - Celebrating 10 Years of Seasons Plate Lunches at Wyndham Estate
• Food in Antiquity – A Survey of the Diet of Early Peoples by Don and Patricia Brothwell
• Madhur Jaffrey’s Ultimate Curry Bible
• Roast Chicken and Other Stories – The Most Useful Cookbook of All Time by Simon Hopkinson
• Hungarian Cuisine by György Hargitai

Philosophy, New Age and Sociology

• The Philosopher and the Wolf – Lessons from the Wild on Love, Death and Happiness by Mark Rowlands
• The Spirit of Yoga by Kathy Phillips
• The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky by Ken Dornstein
• The Terror Dream – Myth and Misogyny in an Insecure America by Susan Faludi

Film and Television, Music and Dance

• Classical Music Unbuttoned – A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Classical Music by Fred Plotkin
• The Essential Bond – The Authorized Guide to the World of 007 by Lee Pfeiffer and Dave Worrall
• The Story of Film by Mark Cousins
• Heath Ledger – Hollywood’s Dark Star by Brian J. Robb
• Margot Assoluta – The Concluding Chapter of the Career of Margot Fonteyn by Keith Money
• Once More, with Feeling – How We Tried to Make the Greatest Porn Film Ever by Victoria Coren & Charlie Skelton
• Guitar Army – Rock and Revolution with MC5 and the White Panther Party by John Sinclair
• Diaries 1969 –1979 – The Python Years by Michael Palin
• Sweat – The Story of the Fleshtones, America’s Garage Band by Joe Bonomo

Art, Architecture and Design

• David Hockney – A Retrospective by LA County Museum of Art
• Pablo Picasso by Ingo F. Walther
• Monet – A Retrospective edited by Charles F. Stuckey
• Margritte by David Sylvester
• Curious Cats in Art and Poetry by British Museum Press
• Gnomes with text by Wil Huygen and illustrations by Rien Poortvliet
• The Raphael Trail – The Secret History of one of the World’s most Precious Works of Art by Joanna Pitman
• Paris Interiors by Lisa Lovatt-Smith
• Retail Design by Otto Riewoldt
• Earth Garden Building Book – Design and Build your Own House by Robert Rich and Keith Smith
• Bridges – A History of the World’s Most Famous and Important Spans by Judith Dupre

True Crime and Business

• The Poet and the Murderer – A True Story of Verse, Violence and the Art of Forgery by Simon Worrall (When a newly discovered poem by Emily Dickinson surfaced in a Sotheby's auction in 1997, a library in the poet's hometown quickly snatched it up. Four months later, however, the poem was returned as fake; it was the work of Mark Hofmann, a rare books dealer and a master falsifier who was then in prison for murder. Using the Dickinson incident as a guide, Worrall reconstructs the life and crimes of the 20th century's best forger)
• Avon – Building the World’s Premier Company for Women by Laura Klepacki

Each week, we bring you the most tragic & fantastic piece of cover art that's crossed our desk.
And we ask ourselves WWCKD? - What Would Captain Kirk Do?
Well obviously, the lady alien on the right in that slinky green outfit ...

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