Predicting Bookish Trends for 2026
By Nicola Moody-Turnwald
From vegetarian cooking to Dystopian Fiction, we're sharing our predictions for 2026 bookish trends!
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Exclusive Q & A with Callie Hart on Writing Quicksilver
By Nicola Moody-Turnwald
Book Hero Nicola was fortunate to be invited to an exclusive Q & A session with Dark Romance and Fantasy author Callie Hart, ahead of her New Zealand tour for...
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Inspiring Reads to Revisit
By Dylan Bland
Book Hero Dylan shares quotes and extracts from inspirational books that carried him through his teen years to his business ventures
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Books To Beat The Monday Blues
By Nicola Moody-Turnwald
If the start of a new week brings you dread, check out our tips and titles that will help you beat the Monday Blues
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Top Business Books from the Book Hero team
By Dylan Bland
Dylan, Alastair and Tim have each picked their their top three Business books that have served as inspiration for their careers, including how they operate Book Hero today! Check out...
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Book Hero Bestsellers June 2025
By Nicola Moody-Turnwald
In this post, we show you the Top Three Bestsellers for each of our top book genres and categories for the month of June.
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Top Five Cozy Crime Books
By Nicola Moody-Turnwald
In this Book Hero Library blog, we show you our top five favourite Cozy Crime novels
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20 Books With Dragons
By Nicola Moody-Turnwald
Book Hero's Dragon Hoard Dragons are so hot right now! With a live-action film remake of the beloved Children's classic How To Train Your Dragon, and the explosion of hot...
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Little Heroes, and an Easter to Remember
Even though we’re an online business, our physical bookstore feels like the heart of everything we do. There’s something special about stepping away from the screen and being around people...
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Another big year ahead
If we thought 2025 was a busy year, 2026 is shaping up to be even bigger. Before we get started, I’d like to be cheeky and acknowledge a small personal...
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Reflecting on 2025
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...
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
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...
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One year on - and we’re just getting started
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...
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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...
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Welcome to our New Home
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...
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Waving goodbye to Workspace Drive
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...
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Growing Pains
I’m delighted to report that things are not slowing down at Book Hero. We delivered more books to customers in May than we did over the busy Christmas period in...
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Post-Christmas Update
It’s been over four months since my last Book Hero update so I thought it was the right time to celebrate some key milestones and reflect back on the busy Christmas period…...
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So, how are things going?
As I reflect back on the first four weeks of Book Hero, I’m proud of what we’ve achieved as a team and I’m super optimistic for the future. Book Hero...
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Ready for Opening Week…
With the warehouse leased and the shelves filling up it was time to turn our attention back to the Book Hero brand. Book Hero is all about books being a secret super...
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