BookHub’s April Highlights
Kia ora koutou and welcome to BookHub’s April Highlights,
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As the days begin to cool and we soak up those last golden rays of sunshine, it’s the perfect time to slow down and curl up with a great book. This month, we’ve got a fabulous selection—from NZ fiction debuts to cooking and lifestyle favourites, paperback editions of bestselling titles, and brilliant reads for kids of all ages.
Here’s what Aotearoa’s indie booksellers are recommending this April!
Happy reading,
– The BookHub Team
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Book of the Month
The End and the Beginning
K. J. Holdom
A stunning tour de force of a novel based on the true story of a fourteen-year-old boy’s harrowing experience fleeing a Hitler youth camp with his best friend in the last days of the Second World War.
At the start of the war, eight-year-old Max Bernot lives with his sister and parents in Lauterbach, Saarland, a narrow strip of territory between the French and German defence lines. His German father, Anton, and his French mother, Marguerite, do their best to shield Max and his sister, Anna, from Nazi violence, but in late 1944, their beloved godfather is executed in their garden by the SS, and Max, now thirteen, is conscripted in the Volkssturm.
Less than a month later, Max flees a Hitler Youth camp in Bavaria with his best friend, Hans. His mission: to return home and tell his mother the truth about his godfather’s murder As he escapes, he sends postcards to his family that trace his fraught journey across a country in its death throes. Unbeknownst to Max, his mother is trapped in the German interior, coerced into working for a fanatical Nazi officer.
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