Are you afraid of the creatures lurking underneath your bed? No? Our Book
Gorilla rates some of the best (and unusual) books that will give you
nightmares. We hope you have a night light…
The
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson
One of the biggest selling crime novels in the last 10 years and continues
to be hugely popular with our customers. This psychological thriller will cast
your mind into the deepest, darkest corners of the world, into a place run by
psychopaths and sexual deviants.
Perfect for those wanting a good solid read, although graphic content can
make for uncomfortable reading in parts… maybe just skip over them if you have
a weak stomach.
Watch out for The
Girl in the Spider's Web coming soon!
Scare Factor: 5/10. Action-packed crime.
Continue reading...
We recently ran an Adult
Colouring Competition and asked entrants to submit some colouring that they
had completed recently.
We are pleased to announce that Kimberley Rutgers is our
winner. With 179 likes on her entry it's clear that you all
agree too!
Kimberley will receive up to $100 worth of colouring books, pens, and
pencils of her choice. Her artwork will also be added to the product
page for Millie
Marotta's Animal Kingdom, and will be featured as the cover art on the Mighty Ape
Facebook page and Mighty Ape Books Facebook page for a week which
have over 260,000 followers between them!
We had a chat to Kimberley Rutgers about her incredible entry!
How long have you been doing adult colouring?
Since my mum brought me a colouring book for my holiday in June this year
for our trip to Rotorua. She made me a pack with the colouring book pencils and
chocolate :) lets just say it's the best gift I've ever received!
Thanks mum!
Do you have an art background?
I've always had a love for anything artistic. I did a lot of art in high
school and did some in university as well with a graphics base. I love being
creative it's one of my main outlets that make me happy and it's a big passion
of mine.
Continue reading...
Hey Book Monkeys,
We want to find the 100 Best Books and we need your help – Plus you could
win a great prize!
All you need to do is vote for up to three books you want to see make our
list and you're in the draw to win your height in books!
Click
here to vote now or use the form below!
Continue reading...
An exciting line-up of authors were announced overnight as longlist
contenders for The
Man Booker Prize 2015 and we are very proud to say there is a New
Zealander on the list!
First awarded in 1969, the prize is recognised as the leading prize for high
quality literary fiction written in English. Its past list of winners features
many literary giants including Salman
Rushdie, Hilary
Mantel and Ian
McEwan.
Anna
Smaill has been given the nod for her novel The
Chimes, along side 12 other authors including Anne Tyler, Tom
McCarthy and Anne Enright.
Only two New Zealanders have previously won the prize, Eleanor
Catton won in 2013 for The
Luminaries and Keri Hulme in 1985 for The
Bone People .
A shortlist of six books will be announced on Tuesday 15 September,
shortlisted authors will each receive £2,500 ($5,800 NZD) and a specially
bound edition of their book.
The winner will receive a further £50,000 ($117,000 NZD), announced Tuesday
13 October.
Continue reading...
We have picked out a few colourers who submitted entries to our Adult
Colouring Competition for a brief Q&A about colouring and
their entry.
We've spoken to winner Kimberley
Rutgers and Rhiannon
Shasta Wood already. Today we speak to Darcy Turner who submitted this impressive entry!
How long have you been doing adult colouring?
I have been colouring since I can remember, growing up drawing and
colouring was a way for me too express my feelings and emotions, it's food for
the soul. Either it's adult or child colouring books, get the best of both
worlds :)
Do you have any art background?
My nana, was a professional painter. She would always be painting or
drawing, when ever I visited. I learnt heaps about artwork history from her,
got heaps of tips and skills as well! Really got into art class all during my
high school years, was best thing about school besides the cooking class
:P haha
Continue reading...
We have picked out a few colourers who submitted entries to our Adult
Colouring Competition for a brief Q&A about colouring and
their entry.
We've spoken to winner Kimberley
Rutgers and Darcy
Turner. Today we speak to Rhiannon Shasta Wood who submitted this cute entry!
How long have you been doing adult colouring?
I don't think I ever made the transition from child to adult colouring as
I have been colouring and drawing since I could hold a pencil. Wasn't until
the past few months when adult colouring became huge that I bought colouring-in
books that were intricate and challenging.
Continue reading...
UPDATE: Winner is Kimberley
Rutgers
No longer are colouring-in books exclusively the domain of children. Adult
colouring books have grown in popularity recently with several
titles regularly appearing in our best sellers list!
A few of the monkeys at Mighty Ape are keen colourers themselves and they
decided that it's time that we put together a competition for all you colourers
out there too!
The winner of our competition will receive up to $100 worth of
colouring books, pens, and pencils of their choice. Their artwork will
also be added to the product page for the book that their design came from, and
will be featured as the cover art on the Mighty Ape
Facebook page and Mighty Ape Books Facebook page for a week which
have over 260,000 followers between them!
Continue reading...
The world thought it had seen the worst after the Sun Flares struck the
Earth's surface, and millions of people were killed. But then an unstoppable
illness ravaged the bodies and minds of the remaining survivors. Simply known as
the Flare, the disease seemed unstoppable until a cure was discovered, but that
relief came at a human cost. Now it's up to Thomas, Teresa and the others, who
will discover that while they may have escaped the Maze, they've entered into an
experiment more terrifying than anything they could imagine. Explore how the
terrifying W.C.K.D. came to be, and how the very first Maze was designed.
Discover what it takes to survive in a post-Flare world, against the violent
Cranks that have begun to take over humanity, only to learn that the Glade may
not be the only Maze W.C.K.D. was running.
If you're a fan of The Maze Runner Book
Series or the film
you'll be excited to learn Maze
Runner: The Scorch Trials: The Official Graphic Novel Prelude
features all new short stories which reveal the character
history of Thomas, Teresa, Aris and other Gladers.
Continue reading...
MAJOR NEWS JUST ANNOUNCED – FIFTY SHADES OF GREY
RE-WRITTEN
Bestselling author of the Fifty
Shades of Grey Series E L James announced today a new version of her
worldwide bestselling novel Fifty
Shades of Grey – this time written from Christian Grey's point
of view.
The new book, titled Grey,
will be published on June 18th – a date that devotees may
remember as Christian’s birthday.
PRE-ORDER Grey
NOW!
