Creatures of the Night, The Mitfords and Flying Buttresses, Entropy and O-Rings

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.

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

Fiction

• The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• The Love of the Foolish Angel by Helen Beauclerk with decoration by Edmund Dulac
• My Mistress Sparrow is Dead – Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro edited by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Ox-Tales Earth – Original Stories from Remarkable Writers including Rankin, Kureishi, Lewycka, Le Carre etc
• The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun by J R R Tolkien and edited by Christopher Tolkien

Plus...
The Book Candy on the front desks is full of Bukowski, Kerouac, Burroughs et al at the moment

Graphic Novels

• City of Glass by Paul Auster (New)
• Creatures of the Night by Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli

New Zealand and the Pacific

• Handboek – Ans Westra Photographs
• Top New Zealand Dive Sites by Gillian and Darryl Torckler
• Dance – The Illustrated History of Dance in New Zealand by Tara Jahn-Werner
• A Deeper Shade of Green – Sustainable Urban Development, Building and Architecture in New Zealand edited by Johann Bernhardt
• The Law of Research – A Guide edited by John Dawson and Nicola Peart
• Borderland Practices – Regulating Alternative Therapies in New Zealand by Kevin Dew
• Mata Toa – The Life and Times of Ranginui Walker by Paul Spoonley
• At Home – A Century of New Zealand Design by Douglas Lloyd Jenkins
• New Zealand Birds – A Diverse Selection by Paul Gibson

Media and Myth, Essays and Literati

• Shakespeare – The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
• Fête-à-Fête – The Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre by Hazel Rowley
• Savage Art – A Biography of Jim Thompson by Robert Polito
• Damned to Fame – The Life of Samuel Beckett by James Knolls
• Middle East Illusions and Problems of Knowledge and Freedom both by Noam Chomsky
• The Universe, the Gods and Mortals – Ancient Greek Myths told by Jean-Pierre Vermont
• Agatha Christie – An Autobiography Plus CD of Christie’s Voice Recordings
• Faith in Fakes – Travels in Hyperreality by Umberto Eco

History, Politics and Biography

• Mary Tudor – The First Queen by Linda Porter
• The Roman Cavalry – From the 1 st to the 3 rd Century AD by Karen R Dixon and Pat Southern
• Elizabeth’s Women – The Hidden Story of the Virgin Queen by Tracy Borman
• Cod – A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
• The Lemon Tree – True Story of a Friendship spanning Four Decades of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Sandy Tolan
• In the Sanctuary of Outcasts – A Memoir by Neil White
• The Wild Child – The Unsolved Mystery of Kaspar Hauser by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
• Katherine Swynford – The Story of John of Gaunt and his Scandalous Duchess by Alison Weir
• Aristocrats – Power, Grace and Decadence – Britain’s Great Ruling Classes from 1066 to the Present by Lawrence James
• The Mitfords – Letters Between Six Sisters edited by Charlotte Mosley

Military and Human Rights

• Arsenals of Folly – The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race by Richard Rhodes
• Forced to Flee – Human Rights and Human Wrongs in Refugee Homelands by Peter W Van Arsdale
• Out of Exile – Narratives from the Abducted and Displaced People of Sudan compiled & edited by Craig Walzer
• War in Darfur and the Search for Peace edited by Alex de Waal
• La Grande Armée by Georges Blond and translated by Marshall May
• The Spanish Civil War by Anthony Beevor

Travel and Places

• Bold Spirit – Helga Estby’s Forgotten Walk across Victorian America by Linda Lawrence Hunt
• Cherry – A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard by Sara Wheeler
• Arabesques – A Tale of Double Lives by Robert Dessaix
• Right to the Edge – Sydney to Tokyo by any Means by Charley Boorman

Arts and Photography

• Chuck Close – Self Portraits 1967-2005
• Dali – Art and Ideas by Robert Radford and Phaidon
• This is Modern Art by Matthew Collings
• Photo Journalism – Getty Images by Könemann
• Hiroshige by Adele Schlombs and Taschen (New)
• Sabine’s Notebook and The Golden Mean by Nick Bantock
• Ansel Adams – 400 Photographs
• Nigel Henderson – Parallel of Life and Art by Victoria Walsh
• The Pre-Raphaelites by Christopher Wood
• Untamed by award-winning Wildlife Photographer Steve Bloom
• The Pepin Press range of Pattern books with CD-Roms including:
  • Kimono Patterns,
  • Tapestry,
  • Japanese Papers,
  • Textile Motifs of India,
  • Repeating Patterns 1100-1800
  • and Islamic Design from Egypt
• Street Dogs by Traer Scott
• Mark Rothko 1903-1970 - Pictures as Drama by Jacob Baal-Teshuva and Taschen (New)
• Abstract Expressionism by Barbara Hess and Taschen (New)

Architecture and Design

• Meier by Philip Jodidio and Taschen (New)
• Flying Buttresses, Entropy and O-Rings – The World of an Engineer by James L Adams
• Layout Index – Brochure, Poster/Fler, Web Design, Advertising, Newsletter, Page Layout, Stationery by Jim Krause
• Create Impact with Type, Image and Colour by Carolyn Knight and Jessica Glaser

Fashion and Music ♫ ♫ ♫

• 1001 Songs – The Great Songs of All Time & the Artists, Stories & Secrets behind them by Toby Cresswell
• Elton – Made in England by Judy Parkinson
• What’s Going On? Marvin Gaye and the Last Days of the Motown Sound by Ben Edmonds
• Trinny and Susannah – The Body Shape Bible – Forget your Size, Discover your Shape, Transform Yourself
• Learn to Play the Guitar – A Step-by-Step Guide by Nick Freeth

TV and Film

• All I Need to Know about Filmmaking I Learned from The Toxic Avenger by Lloyd Kaufman and James Gunn
• Heath – A Family’s Tale by Janet Fife-Yeomans
• The Art of Bollywood edited by Rajesh Devraj and Paul Duncan, and published by Taschen (New)
• Audrey Hepburn by Barry Paris

Cooking and Gardening

• Cleaving – A Story of Marriage, Meat and Obsession by Julie Powell
• My Mum’s Cookbook by Roisin Bibby
• The Book of Jewish Food – An Odyssey from Samarkand and Vilna to the Present Day by Claudia Roden
• The New Zealand Wine-Lover’s Companion – An A-Z Guide by Karl du Fresne
• Food Cook Eat – Buy it Fresh, Cook it Simply, Eat it Now by Lulu Grimes
• Titles in the Culinaria Series (New) including:
  • Germany,
  • France,
  • Italy,
  • Spain,
  • Greece
  • and Russia
• Nigella Bites by Nigella Lawson
• The Really Helpful Cookbook by Ruth Watson
• In Search of Perfection – Reinventing Kitchen Classics by Heston Blumenthal
• Complete Guide to Water Garden Plants by Helen Nash with Steve Stroupe (New)

Science and Natural History, Religion and Philosophy

• Einstein – His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
• Elephants on Acid and other Bizarre Experiments by Alex Boese
• The Art of War – The Essential Translation of the Classic Book of Life by Sun-tzu
• God is not Great – How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens

Business and Sport

• The Big Short – Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
• Stealing the Wave – The Epic Struggle between Ken Bradshaw and Mark Foo by Andy Martin
• Boxing Ballerinas by Tony McGee
• The Yellow Jersey Companion to the Tour de France edited by Les Woodland

Things to do

• Mother Tells you How – Essential Life Skills for Modern Young Women from Girl Magazine 1952-1960
• Truth – A History and a Guide for the Perplexed by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
• Speak Easy – The Essential Guide to Speaking in Public by Maggie Eyre
• Poker – Bets, Bluffs and Bad Beats by A Alvarez
• Bruce McCall’s Zany Afternoons – Anarchic, Elegant, Hilarious and Incomparable Dreams of a World Gone By
• Cabbages and Roses – Guide to Natural Housekeeping – Live a Calmer, Healthier Life, Recycle and Reuse, Clean Naturally, Garden Organically by Christina Strutt

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