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

Fiction, Fiction, Fiction!

• The Jeeves Omnibus including
  • Thank You, Jeeves ,
  • The Code of the Woosters
  • & The Inimitable Jeeves by P G Wodehouse …
• and Jeeves & Wooster Omnibus containing
  • The Mating Season ,
  • The Code of the Woosters
  • & Right Ho, Jeeves also by P G Wodehouse
• Death of the Ice – Scott – Antarctica – 1912 – The Worst Journey; the Finest Men by Robert Ryan
• Ermyntrude and Esmeralda by Lytton Strachey introduced by Michael Holroyd & illustrated by Erté – 1 st Ed
• A Void by Georges Perec (Mad but true… no `e’s to be found in this novel at all either in the French original or the English translation – maybe he just had a faulty keyboard he couldn’t replace and had to make do?)
• The Monkey King by Timothy Mo
• The Time of our Singing by Richard Powers
• The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
• Bagombo Snuff Box – Uncollected Short Fiction by Kurt Vonnegut

Comics

• Tank Girl – Apocalypse by Grant and Pritchett
• The Christmas Spirit by Will Eisner
• American Splendor – Ego and Hubris – The Michael Malice Story by Harvey Pekar
• Little Orphan Annie in the Great Depression by Harold Gray – 231 of the Original Strips
• Amazing Rain by Sam Brown
• Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
• Quitter by Dean Haspiel and Lee Loughridge
• Macedonia – What Does it Take to Stop a War? by Harvey Pekar and Heather Roberson

New Zealand and the Pacific

• Wellington After the `Quake – The Challenge of Rebuilding Cities by the Earthquake Commission
• Health for the People – Newtown Union Health Service – 20 years on edited by Kathy James
• New Selected Poems by James K Baxter edited by Paul Millar
• The Death of Captain Cook – A Hero Made and Unmade by Glyn Williams
• Duperrey’s Visit to New Zealand in 1824 edited by Andrew Sharp
• The Mentor by Graeme Lay (signed edition)
• The Story of a New Zealand River by Jane Mander
• Song of the Stone by Barry Brailsford
• Massacre at Passchendaele – The New Zealand Story by Glyn Harper
• Time to Ride by Sam Hunt
• Maori – A Photographic and Social History by Michael King
• Making Music in New Zealand by Gareth Shute
• Bums on Seats – The Backstage Story by Roger Hall
• A History of Gold-Mining in New Zealand by J H M Salmon

New New Zealand Books

• In Search of Ancient New Zealand by Hamish Campbell and Gerard Hutching
• Te Toi Whakairo – The Art of Maori Carving by Hirini Moko Mead
• Ta Moko – The Art of Maori Tattoo by D R Simmons
• Plant Heritage New Zealand – Interpreting the Special Features of Native Plants by Tony Foster
• Maori Architecture from Fale to Wharenui and Beyond by Deidre Brown
• Best of Both Worlds – The Story of Elsdon Best and Tutakangahau by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
• The Penguin Field Guide to New Zealand Archaeology by Kevin L Jones
• An Illustrated Guide to Maori Art by Terence Barrow
• Going Native – Growing and Using New Zealand Native Plants edited by Ian Spellerberg and David Given
• Lighting the Coast – A History of New Zealand’s Coastal Lighthouse System by Helen Beaglehole
• Chatham Islands – Heritage and Conservation edited by Colin Miskelly
• New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity – Volume One – Kingdom Animalia edited by Dennis P Gordon
• Threatened Plants of New Zealand by de Lange, Heenan, Norton, Rolfe and Sawyer

Classics and Essays, Language and Literati

• Gentleman Junkie – The Life and Legacy of William S Burroughs by Graham Cavaney
• The Memoir Book – The Clearest and Most Creative Memoir-Writing Guide Available by Patti Miller
• Samuel Beckett – The Last Modernist by Anthony Cronin
• Magical Thinking – True Stories by Augusten Burroughs
• A Steroid Hit the Earth – A Celebration of Misprints, Typos and other Howlers by Martin Toseland
• The Inferno of Dante – A New Verse Translation by Robert Pinsky – Bilingual Edition
• Oscar Wilde – A Long and Lovely Suicide by Melissa Knox)
• Long Time Leaving – Dispatches from Up South by Roy Blount Jr
• Straight Hearts’ Delight – Love Poems and Selected Letters by Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky
• Mishima on Hagakure – The Samurai Ethic and Modern Japan
• The Journals of Jean Cocteau translated by Wallace Fowlie
• Beat Writers at Work – The Paris Review Interviews edited by George Plimpton
• A Writer’s Paris – A Guided Journey for the Creative Soul by Eric Maisel
• Literary Essays and Existentialism and Human Emotions both by Jean-Paul Sartre
• Word of the Day 2 – Wordwatching – A Wonderful Look into the World of Words by Keel Richard
• How to Talk about Books you haven’t Read by Pierre Bayard (Essential Reading for Staff Members... ? )
• Maps and Legends – Reading and Writing along the Borderlands by Michael Chabon (Essays)
• Lost for Words – The Mangling and Manipulating of the English Language by John Humphreys
• Looking for Enid – The Mysterious and Inventive Life of Enid Blyton by Duncan McLaren

History and Biography

• Eating Right in the Renaissance by Ken Albala
• The Village in History by Graham Nicholson and Jane Fawcett
• The Black and Tans by Richard Bennett
• 142 Strand – A Radical Address in Victorian London by Rosemary Ashton
• The Affair – The Case of Alfred Dreyfus by Jean-Denis Bredin
• My Prison, My Home – One Woman’s Story of Captivity in Iran by Haleh Esfandiari
• Beethoven’s Hair – Music, madness & molecular science revealed by a single lock of hair by Russell Martin
• Fakes and Forgeries – True Crime Stories of History’s Greatest Deceptions by Brian Innes
• Snowdon – The Biography by Anne de Courcy
• Flawless – Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History by Scott Andrew Selby and Greg Campbell
• Lipstick Traces – A Secret History of the Twentieth Century by Greil Marcus
• Letter to D – A Love Story – The Love Letter that Captivated Paris by André Gorz
• Opium – A Portrait of the Heavenly Demon by Barbara Hodgson
• The Vampire in Europe by Montague Summers
• Black Gold – A Dark History of Coffee by Antony Wild

Ancient History

• Pre-Columbian Architecture of MesoAmerica by Doris Heyden and Paul Gendrop
• The Florida of the Inca – The Fabulous De Soto Story by Garcilaso de la Vega
• Tula – The Toltec Capital of Ancient Mexico by Richard A Diehl
• Tula of the Toltecs – Excavations and Survey edited by Dan M Healan
• Ancient Tollan – Tula and the Toltec Heartland by Alba Guadalupe Mastache, Robert Cobean & Dan Healan
• Conquistadors by Michael Wood
• Chalcatzingo – Excavations on the Olmec Frontier by David C Grove

Military and Transport

• A Horseman for the Emperor – A Cavalryman of Napoleon’s Army on Campaign Throughout the Napoleonic Wars by Jean Baptiste Gazzola
• V and W Class Destroyers 1917-1945 by Antony Preston
• The Merchant Schooners (in two volumes) by Basil Greenhill
• Men from the Dreadnoughts by Henry Baynham
• The World War One Source Book by Philip J Haythornthwaite
• Jutland to Junkyard – The Raising of the Scuttled German High Seas Fleet from Scapa Flow by S C George
• Goodbye Dolly Gray – The Story of the Boer War by Rayne Kruger
• Popski’s Private Army by Vladimir Peniakoff
• The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Middle East Conflict
• Raising the Hunley – The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate Submarine by Brian Hicks and Schuyler Kropf
• SOE – The Special Operations Executive 1940-1946 by M R D Foot
• Humanity – A Moral History of the Twentieth Century by Jonathan Glover

Travel and Places

• Tibet – The Secret Continent by Michel Peissel
• Colin Thubron In Siberia
• High Exposure – An Enduring Passion for Everest and other Unforgiving Places by David Breashears
• Freya Stark - Passionate Nomad by Jane Fletcher Geniesse
• Flight Paths of the Emperor by Steven Heighton
• The Illustrated Book of Women Travellers edited by Mary Morris with Larry O’Connor
• Off the Map – The Call of the Amazonian Wild by John Harrison
• Magnificent Desolation – The Long Journey Home from the Moon by Buzz Aldrin
• Tropical Classical – Essays from Several Directions by Pico Iyer
• Video Night in Kathmandu by Pico Iyer
• Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin
• The National Geographic Society – 100 Years of Adventure and Discovery by C D B Bryan
• Berlin – Shops and More by Angelika Taschen
• Japanland – A Year in Search of Wa by Karin Muller
• London – A City Revealed edited by Penny Phenix
• Amazonian – The Penguin Book of Women’s New Travel Writing edited by Dea Birkett and Sara Wheeler
• Last seen in Lhasa – The Story of an Extraordinary Friendship in Modern Tibet by Claire Scobie
• Lost Explorers - Lost & Found in History – Adventurers who disappeared off the Face of the Earth by Ed Wright
• Eyewitness Travel - Travel – Where to Go When edited by Craig Doyle and DK
• Nothing to Envy – Love, Life and Death in North Korea by Barbara Demick
• Come away with Me edited by Sarah MacDonald
• Nine Lives – In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple

Craft and Fashion and very crafty fashion...

• Dress your Best – The Complete Guide to Finding the Style that’s right for your Body by Clinton Kelly and Stacy London
• 20 th Century Fashion – 100 Years of Apparel Ads by Jim Heimann and Alison A Nieder
• Fabric – Textures and Patterns by the Pepin Press with CD-Rom
• Vintage Knits for Modern Babies by Hadley Fierlinger
• 501 Great Scrapbook Page Ideas – A Gallery of Themes and Inspiration from A-Z
• Ethnic Jewellery – From Africa, Asia and Pacific Islands – The René van der Star Collection
• The Crystal Years – A Tribute to the Skills and Artistry of Stevens and Williams Royal Brierley Crystal by R S Williams-Thomas
• Fashion Design Drawing by Patrick John Ireland
• Historic Costume in Pictures – Over 1450 Costumes on 125 Plates by Braun and Schneider
• Decades of Fashion by Getty Images

Art, Crafts and Antiques

• Character Design Studio – Create Cutting-Edge Cartoon Figures by Chris Patmore
• How to Draw Comic Book Heroes and Villain by Christopher Hart
• Drawing Dynamic Comics by Andy Smith
• How to Draw & Sell Comic Strips –Content, Layout, Style, Colour, Presentation by Alan McKenzie
• Interviews with American Artists by David Sylvester
• Gauguin by Britt Salvesen
• Art Piranesi – The Etchings by Luigi Ficacci
• Le Roy Neiman – Art and Lifestyle
• London Street Art by Alex MacNaughton
• Eileen Agar 1899-1991 by Ann Simpson
• Faeries described and illustrated by Brian Froud and Alan Lee
• Japanese Art of the Edo Period by Christine Guth
• Pre/dictions – The Role of Art at the End of the Millennium – Victoria University of Wellington
• All-American Ads 50s edited by Jim Heiman
• Humans – The most Improbable Mythical Beings ever immortalized in an Overpriced Coffee-Table Tome by Mike Dowdall and Pat Welch – A Parody of the Gnome Book
• Anatomy – Made Simple for Artists by Jonathan Freemantle
• Museum of the Missing – The High Stakes of Art Crime by Simon Houpt
• Art at the Turn of the Millennium edited by Burkhard Riemschneider and Uta Grosenick
• The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) by Andy Warhol
• Through the Flower – My Struggle as a Woman Artist by Judy Chicago
• African Reflections – Art from Northeastern Zaire by Enid Schildkrout and Curtis A Keim
• Cubism by Philip Cooper
• Max Ernst Bücher and Grafiken
• The Shock of the New – The Hundred-Year History of Modern Art by Robert Hughes

Architecture and Design

• Splendours of the East – Temples, Tombs, Palaces and Fortresses of Asia edited by Mortimer Wheeler
• The Architecture of Philip Johnson by Hilary Lewis and Richard Payne
• The Visual Dictionary of Buildings by DK
• Re-Architecture – Old Buildings / New Uses by Sherban Cantacuzino
• Asian Apartments by Feierabend

Music, Dance and Show Business

• No One Here gets out Alive – The Biography of Jim Morrison by Jerry Hopkins & Danny Sugerman
• Imagine – A Celebration of John Lennon
• Let’s Disco – A Complete Instructional System for Disco Dancing
• Born under a Bad Sign by Tony Palmer with illustrations by Ralph Steadman & foreword by John Lennon
• I’ll Sleep when I’m Dead – The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
• Seeing is Believing – Or How Hollywood taught us to stop Worrying and Love the 50s by Peter Biskind
• Handling Edna – The Unauthorised Biography by Barry Humphries
• The Wah-Wah Diaries – The Making of a Film by Richard E Grant

Science and Natural History

• Walking with Dinosaurs – A Natural History by Tim Haines
• Noise by Bart Kosko
• Wildwood – A Journey through Trees by Roger Deakin
• Adam’s Navel – A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Body by Michael Sims
• The Story of Rats – Their Impact on us and our Impact on them by S Anthony Barnett
• The Third Revolution – Environment, Population and a Sustainable World by Paul Harrison
• The Genius Factory – Unraveling the Mysteries of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank by David Plotz
• Animal – The Definitive Visual Guide to the World’s Wildlife by DK and edited by David Burnie

Cooking and Gardening, Eating and Living

• Eco Chic – Organic Living by Rebecca Tanqueray
• Norwegian National Recipes – An inspiring Journey in the Culinary History of Norway by Arne Brimi and Ardis Kaspersen
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma – The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World by Michael Pollen
• Slow Cooker – Quick and Easy, Proven Recipes edited by Gina Steer
• On Baking by Sue Lawrence
• The Devil’s Cup – Coffee, the Driving Force in History by Stewart Lee Allen
• Coffee Basics – A Quick and Easy Guide by Kevin Knox and Julie Sheldon Huffaker
• Grow your own Fruit with the Royal Horticultural Society by Carol Klein
• The Gluten-Free Gourmet– Living Well without Wheat
• And More from the Gluten-Free Gourmet – Delicious Dining without Wheat both by Bette Hagman
• Organic Vegetable Gardening – A Month by Month Guide to Creating your own Garden of Eden by Xanthe White
• The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency by John Seymour
• The World of Spice – The Complete Culinary and Historical Guide with 200 Recipes by Michael Bateman
• The Tofu Primer – A Beginner’s Book of Bean Cake Cookery by Juel Andersen with Sigrid Andersen
• Totally Chile Pepper Cookbook by Helene Siegel and Karen Gillingham

Diving, Surfing and Going Under

• Sea Monsters – Prehistoric Predators of the Deep by Nigel Marvin and Jasper James
• Top Dive Sites of the World edited by Jack Jackson
• Hell – An Illustrated History of the Netherworld by Richard Craze
• Shark – Endangered Predator of the Sea by Marty Snyderman
• Dive Atlas of the World – An Illustrated Reference to the Best Sites edited by Jack Jackson
• Pipe Dreams – A Surfer’s Journey by Six-time World Champion Kelly Slater with Jason Borte
• Sharks and Rays edited by Leighton Taylor
• Dreams from a Rainbow Sea – Underwater Maldives by Michael Aw

Religion and New Age, DIY and Personal Psychology

• Pilgrimage – Adventures of the Spirit edited by Sean O’Reilly and James O’Reilly
• How to do just about Everything by Courtney Rosen and Marks & Spencer
• The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism – Conversion, Contestation and Memory by Matthew T Kapstein
• Islam – Its Meaning and Message edited by Khurshid Ahmad
• A Manual of Occultism by Sepharial
• The Satanic Bible by Anton Szandor LaVey
• Old Wives’ Tales – Fact or Fiction? Uncovering the Truth behind Superstitions and Folklore by Thomas J Craughwell
• How Slow can you Water Ski? And other Puzzling Questions edited by Simon Rogers
• The Alchemy of Loss – A Young Widow’s Transformation by Abigail Carter
• The Spend Less Handbook – 365 tips for a Better Quality of Life while actually Spending Less by Rebecca Ash
• The Traveller’s Gift – Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success by Andy Andrews

Pop Culture, Education and Philosophy

• Girl Heroes – The New Force in Popular Culture by Susan Hopkins
• The Metaphysics of Death edited by John Martin Fischer
• Nietzsche – A Philosophical Biography by Rüdiger Safranski
• Freakonomics – A Rogue Economist explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Leavitt and Dubner
• Double Trouble – Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives by Greil Marcus
• Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984 – Volume 2 Aesthetics and Volume 3 Power by Michel Foucault
• Homework for Grown-Ups – Everything you Learnt at School and Promptly Forgot by E Foley and B Coates
• Introducing Foucault and Baudrillard for Beginners both by Chris Horrocks and Zoran Jevtic
• Give the Anarchists a Cigarette by Mick Farren
• Th!nk – Why Crucial Decisions can’t be made in the Blink of an Eye by Michael R LeGault
• How Proust can Change your Life by Alain de Botton

Business, Sport and Games

• Mulligan’s Laws of Golf – A Lifetime of Golfing Wisdom for Professionals & Amateurs edited by Henry Beard
• The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Bridge by H Antony Medley with Michael Lawrence
• Metaphorically Selling – How to Use the Magic of Metaphors to Sell, Persuade & Explain Anything to Anyone by Anne Miller
• Guerrilla Publicity – Hundreds of Sure-Fire Tactics to get Maximum Sales for Minimum Dollars
• Fishing for Dummies – How, When and Where to catch Fish by Peter Kaminsky
• Baseball as America – Seeing Ourselves through our National Game by National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum

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