Board Games for Kids & Families
By Amelia Burns
In our family board games have always been a big part of spending quality time together. It’s how we bonded with our brothers' partners, how we relax at the end...
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Amelia’s Rolife Build Experience: How Rolife Took Over Our Family Dinners
By Amelia Burns
Amelia shares the way her family has been taken over by Rolife kits and some of their current faves.
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Board Games on the Go: The Best Travel Games for Every Adventure
By Amelia Burns
Whether you’re road-tripping around New Zealand, heading off on a trip overseas or just trying to survive a trip with the kids, travel games are the perfect solution to keeping...
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New Rolife DIY Miniatures & Book Nooks Have Arrived!
By Amelia Burns
If you’re new to Rolife, it’s a DIY creative brand that focuses on beautifully detailed handmade 3D puzzles and miniature kits. From enchanting book nooks that transform your bookshelf into...
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Speed Puzzling in NZ
By Amelia Burns
Jigsaws are no longer just a quiet Sunday activity. From solo sprints to team relays, speed puzzling is growing across New Zealand. This guide breaks down how competitions work, where...
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Piece Together Something New with Ravensburger
By Amelia Burns
We just refreshed our collection with 150 premium Ravensburger arrivals. Whether you want a relaxing 500 piece landscape, a massive 5,000 piece masterpiece, or a strategic board game like Disney...
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Meaningful Moments with eeBoo
By Amelia Burns
Bring home a quiet moment of calm with our latest eeBoo arrivals. Each puzzle pairs gorgeous artwork with a curated music playlist for total relaxation. These stunning sets make thoughtful...
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Amelia’s Long Weekend Board Game Picks
By Amelia Burns
Make your downtime memorable with a handpicked selection of board games. Whether you are hosting a big crowd, traveling light, or enjoying a quiet solo afternoon, these curated picks ensure...
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How to Host a Great Game Night
By Amelia Burns
Ditch the stress of perfect hosting. Learn how to pick the right games for your crowd, handle rule explanations without the boredom, and keep the energy high with low-mess snacks....
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Discover Board Games through Books
By Amelia Burns
Love reading but want to be part of the action? We paired six iconic books with popular board games. Whether you crave high-fantasy campaigns or fast-paced crime solving, these duos...
Book Hero Origin Stories...
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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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