BookHub October Highlights
Kia ora koutou and welcome to BookHub’s October Highlights,
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Spring is in the air — and so are some of the year’s most anticipated book releases. We’ve gathered the top picks for October, as chosen by Aotearoa’s independent booksellers. From literary heavyweights to fresh new voices, fantasy epics to thoughtful non-fiction, these are the stories capturing hearts and imaginations right now.
Happy reading!
– The BookHub Team
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Book of the Month
The Floral Dream
Olivia McCord
A practical and inspiring guide for New Zealand home gardeners who dream of growing their own cut flowers. Whether the reader is new to gardening or already has dirt under their nails, this book offers down-to-earth advice on how to grow beautiful blooms in the backyard.
Written by Olivia McCord, a self-taught gardener who began as a novice before running an edible flower farm and now a cut flower seed business, ‘The Floral Dream’ is born from her deep passion for flowers. It is a companion for gardeners of all levels, helping to transform any New Zealand garden into a flourishing space full of life and beauty.
Non-Fiction
Perspective
Shaun Johnson
Raise Your Soul
Yanis Varoufakis
Fiction
The Underworld
Sofie Laguna
Super-Frog Saves Tokyo
Haruki Murakami
Gone Before Goodbye
Harlan Coben & Reese Witherspoon
Children & Young Adult
Everything Under the Sun
Molly Oldfield
The 113th Assistant Librarian 2: Lost in a Book
Stuart Wilson
The Rose Field
Philip Pullman
