Check out the trailer for James Frey's Endgame:
The Calling. This book kicks off a trilogy that is guaranteed to be
the next big thing. Endgame has its mysterious tendrils in a Google
Niantic-created augmented reality game for mobile devices and the movie is
already in the works.
The book itself contains clues that can lead one lucky (or clever) reader to
a real world prize! The real details are enough of a secret that the advance
reader copies contain fake puzzles. There goes my head start!
Our first shipment quickly sold out but we are expecting more stock any
moment now. Place your
order to join the hunt!
As we approach the end of the year (already!) there is a wealth of wonderful
non-fiction landing with us. Below is a quick run-down of some highlights over
the next month. There is a real breadth of titles on the horizon; truly
something for everyone!
Take a peek at a select few and explore the full range of
new non-fiction.
We have one copy each of Underground
Girls of Kabul and Malala:
The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World to
giveaway!
All you need to do to enter the draw is head over to the Mighty Ape
Books Facebook page and let me know what non-fiction you are
looking forward to this October :)
5. Underground
Girls of Kabul – Jenny Nordberg
An Afghan woman's life expectancy is just 44 years, and her life cycle
often begins and ends in disappointment: being born a girl and finally, having a
daughter of her own. For some, disguising themselves as boys is the only way to
get ahead. Nordberg follows women such as Azita Rafaat, a parliamentarian who
once lived as a Bacha Posh, the mother of seven-year-old Mehran, who she is
raising as a Bacha Posh as well, but for different reasons than in the past.
There's Zahra, a teenage student living as a boy who is about to display signs
of womanhood as she enters puberty. And Skukria, a hospital nurse who remained
in a Bacha Posh disguise until she was twenty, and who now has three children of
her own. Exploring the historical roots of this tradition, The Underground Girls
of Kabul is a fascinating and moving investigation.
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WINNER ANNOUNCED
Thank you for all your comments both here and on the Mighty Ape
Books Facebook page. The winner this time was Benedict over on the
Facebook page :)
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Many thanks for all the book recommendations (Keep them coming!). I thought
I would offer an endorsement of my own in the form of Andy Weir’s The
Martian.
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Set to be one of the hugest sports books of the year is Playing
It My Way, the auto-biography of the man Brian Lara calls
“the greatest cricketer of all time”.
Tendulkar has achieved that rare level of sportsmanship in which he has
become both an international star and a hero in his native India. He has been
awarded the highest of accolades at home and triumphed to an unprecedented
degree at the crease.
One of the most gifted and entertaining batsmen to have played
international cricket, he scored more runs and made more centuries than any
other player in history – in both Tests and ODIs. He made his first Test
century at the age of 17, at the age of 36 he became the first player to make a
one-day double century and in 2012 he scored his 100th international hundred.
With India he won the World Cup in 2011 and reached the top of the world Test
rankings in the same year. In 2013, he retired from cricket after playing his
200th and final Test in front of his home crowd in Mumbai.
"I knew that agreeing to write my story would need me to be completely
honest, as that’s the way I have always played the game. It would require
talking about a number of aspects I have not shared in public before.
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To celebrate the release of the upcoming cookbook Everyday
Delicious we have invited MasterChef winner Chelsea
Winter to Mighty Ape for a live online chat.
The chat will take place live on the Mighty Ape Facebook
page on Tuesday, 14th October, from 6.30pm to 7pm.
We will also have three signed copies of Everyday Delicious to give away to
three lucky monkeys who participate in the chat.
Need some ideas for new ingredients to experiment with? Or some tips to
perfect your favourite dish? Or maybe you want to know some more about what
inspires Chelsea Winter and how she comes up with her delicious
recipes.
Swing by our Chelsea Winter Live Chat on October 14th where she will be
sharing her wisdom on all things cooking :D
WINNER ANNOUNCED
Many thanks to everyone for your comments. The winner this time is Rajeev for
his answer ‘Fight Club’. What a great novel!
Please direct message the Mighty Ape
Books Facebook page Rajeev and I can grab your details :)
https://www.facebook.com/MightyApeBooks
We always like to keep up with books as they are adapted to the 2nd biggest
screen (the real big screen is in your head of course!).
There are some huge movies gaining buzz at the moment that are worth
exploring on the page first. Check out the trailers below for a taste of what
the books offer.
1. Gone
Girl
THE ADDICTIVE No.1 BESTSELLER THAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT Who are
you? What have we done to each other? These are the questions Nick Dunne finds
himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, when his wife
Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she
was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true.
A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they
weren't made by him. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile
phone. So what really did happen to Nick's beautiful wife?
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Fans of James
Patterson will be very excited to hear that today brings us the release of
his latest surefire best-seller. Burn,
the 7th novel in the hugely successful Detective Michael Bennett
series, takes us out of hiding and back to New York City. Life is unlikely to
stay calm for long however…
Burn is guaranteed to propel you
through its story and keep you hooked until the end!
We have a copy of James Patterson's Private Oz to giveaway! All you need to
do to go in the draw is offer us all a Mighty recommendation.
Let us all know what 2014 novel you recommend in the comments below and we
will draw a winner on Tuesday 23rd September.
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There, I said it. Robert Galbraith is the nom de plume of none other than J. K. Rowling.
Thankfully, even with that cat out of the bag, there is more than enough
mystery and intrigue in the pages of The
Silkworm.
We have four copies of the fantastically twisty The Silkworm
to give away. Grabbing your copy is easy! Just head over to our Mighty
Ape Books Facebook page, give us a like and leave a comment to let
me know what your pen name would be!
Personally, I'm going with Viggo Z. Sapolsky as a nod to a couple of my
favourite writers and, of course, my cat.
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Video Games Day celebrates popular video games that have taken the world by
storm. From Atari to Nintendo to Xbox, video games have changed the way kids and
adults play and now represent one of the largest and fastest growing
entertainment industries today.
We think it's a really great excuse for enthusiasts to take a day to play
favourite games with mates, but it's also a time to reflect on how much an
impact video games have had on our lives, and even an opportunity for non-gamers
to give something new a try!
To celebrate we thought we'd pick out our favourite video game themed items
available in the jungle that we don't want you to miss out on…
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We may not have a Kiwi in the running for the Man Booker Prize this year but
the announcement of this year's shortlist is reason for excitement. For the
first time the award is open to writers of all nationalities and Australian
Richard Flanagan has joined those vying for the prestigious award.
Let's take a brief look at the short-listed titles available for
order today.
To
Rise Again at a Decent Hour
A big, brilliant, profoundly observed novel about the mysteries of modern life
by National Book Award Finalist Joshua Ferris, one of the most exciting voices
of his generation. At once laugh-out-loud funny about the absurdities of the
modern world, and indelibly profound about the eternal questions of the meaning
of life, love and truth, To
Rise Again at a Decent Hour is a deeply moving and constantly surprising
tour de force. Paul O'Rourke is a man of contradictions: he loves the world, but
doesn't know how to live in it. He's a Luddite addicted to his iPhone, a
dentist with a nicotine habit, a rabid Red Sox fan devastated by their
victories, and an atheist not quite willing to let go of God. Then someone
begins to impersonate Paul online, and he watches in horror as a website, a
Facebook page, and a Twitter account are created in his name.
The
Narrow Road to the Deep North
A novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life and the impossibility of
love.This savagely beautiful novel is a story about the many forms of love and
death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age only to discover all that he
has lost. The
Narrow Road to the Deep North is a big, magnificent novel of passion and
horror and tragic irony.‘“My subject is war, and the pity of war. The
poetry is in the pity.” Flanagan's triumph is to find poetry without any pity
at all.’ – Geordie Williamson, The Australian. ‘A story of war
and star-crossed lovers, the novel is also a profound meditation on life and
time, memory and forgetting …a magnificent achievement.’ – Katharine
England, Adelaide Advertiser. ‘A masterpiece …The Narrow Road is an
extraordinary piece of writing, a high point in an already distinguished
career.’ – Michael Williams, The Guardian.
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