Book Hero's Journey

December 30, 2025

Reflecting on 2025

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Looking back on 2025, it has been without doubt the most challenging year of my life — and also the most rewarding. For a long time, I’ve held two competing...

November 30, 2025

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

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Fresh off the back of our Christmas Bookshop Day (only our second ever in-person event) it’s fair to say it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas here at Book...

October 20, 2025

One year on - and we’re just getting started

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Exactly one year ago today, the Book Hero website went live, and a hopeful but fragile idea transformed into a fully functional business with real people, real shelves, real books...

October 10, 2025

What Does a Modern Bookshop Look Like? Celebrating NZ Bookshop Day

Tomorrow is New Zealand Bookshop Day, an event championed by the Booksellers Association of New Zealand to encourage book lovers to celebrate their local bookshop. Having not quite achieved the...

August 1, 2025

Welcome to our New Home

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We’ve done it — 40,000 books moved across a single weekend to our new home just around the corner at 8/4 Rawiri Place, Hobsonville. If you know Hobsonville, we are...

July 20, 2025

Waving goodbye to Workspace Drive

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When we signed our lease at 2/6 Workspace Drive we intended to call it home for the next three years — but our growth during our first nine months has...