BookHub’s November Highlights
Kia ora koutou and welcome to BookHub’s November Highlights,
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As the warmer days roll in and the gifting season quietly approaches, it’s the perfect time to slow down and pick something meaningful to share. Our November book of the month is Good Things Come and Go by Josie Shapiro: a beautifully crafted story about friendship, grief, ambition and the risk of new beginnings that you won’t want to miss.
From gripping fiction like The American Boys by Olivia Spooner and Exit Strategy by Lee & Andrew Child, to poignant memoirs such as Attention by Anne Enright, and stunning visual journeys like New Zealand Photography Collected, there’s something here for every reader.
As Black Friday buzz begins, remember: shopping local not only supports our communities but feels so much better too. Discover these gems at your independent bookshop, or online with BookHub, where your dollars stay in Aotearoa.
Happy reading and happy gifting!
– The BookHub Team
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Book of the Month
Good Things Come and Go
Josie Shapiro
The stunning second novel from the bestselling author of Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts.
After the death of their young daughter, Penny Whittaker and Adam Riggs are struggling. Penny’s lifelong dream of becoming a successful artist has stalled, and Riggs, battling an addiction to prescription painkillers, is coming to grips with the end of his glittering professional skateboarding career. When Penny is unexpectedly offered a chance to exhibit her work at an Auckland gallery, she accepts, despite her reservations. At the same time, back in Auckland, Jamie Flannery suddenly finds himself out of work and out of options.
To recuperate, he moves to his uncle’s abandoned bach on the Coromandel, and when his childhood friend Riggs calls out the blue, the three friends reunite. At first, being together feels just like old times. But secrets from their shared past threaten their newfound peace, forcing them to reckon with their history and themselves.
A novel about friendship and betrayal, ambition and grief, Good Things Come and Go is also a study of homecoming and heartbreak and an ode to the courage of taking risks no matter the consequences.
Fiction
Exit Strategy
Lee Child & Andrew Child
The Silver Book
Olivia Laing
The Strength of the Few
James Islington
Non-Fiction
The Launch of Rocket Lab
Peter Griffin & Peter Beck
New Zealand Photography Collected
Athol McCredie
He Puāwai
Phillip Garnock-Jones
Book of Lives
Margaret Atwood
New Zealand Place Names
Peter Dowling & A. W. Reed
Attention
Anne Enright
Children & Young Adult
The Wondrous Tale of Lavender Wolfe
Karen Foxlee
We Fell Apart
E. Lockhart
