Behind the Scenes with Jordan
By Dylan Bland
From rock music and energy drinks to managing a growing team, Jordan keeps the Book Hero warehouse moving. Learn how he ensures every order placed by 4pm ships out the...
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Behind the Scenes with Hannah
By Dylan Bland
Hannah balances psychology studies with her role as a Warehouse and Bookstore Sidekick. From curating summer playlists to hunting down rare car manuals, she ensures every order hits your door...
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Behind the Scenes - Meet Kevin
By Dylan Bland
Go behind the scenes with Kevin, our Email and Merchandising Hero. Learn about his love for data, his musical background, and how his passion for gaming and snacks helps shape...
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Behind the Scenes - Meet Alastair
By Dylan Bland
Meet Alastair, Book Hero’s co-founder and "Operations Hero." From custom-coding scalable logistics software to managing warehouse infrastructure, Alastair builds the systems ensuring 2,000+ books ship daily. Discover his love for...
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Behind the Scenes – Meet Tim (T1)
By Dylan Bland
Meet Tim, Book Hero’s versatile co-founder and "excitable labrador." From coding custom buying tools to launching the board games category, Tim’s "anything is possible" mindset keeps books moving. Discover his...
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Behind the Scenes – Meet Marnie 🤓 📈
By Dylan Bland
Meet Marnie, a multi-talented new team member at Book Hero who bridges the gap between customer service and bookkeeping. Having worked her way up from the warehouse, Marnie uses her...
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Behind the Scenes with Siobhan
By Dylan Bland
Get to know our Warehouse Sidekick Siobhan in the latest of our Behind the Scenes series, where you’ll meet the Heroes who make sure your books, puzzles and board games...
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Behind the Scenes with Dom
By Dylan Bland
Get the inside scoop with our Book Heroes! Go behind the scenes to learn about their morning routines, lunch break escapes, and the little wins that make Book Hero happen....
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Behind the Scenes with Shirl
By Dylan Bland
Get the inside scoop with our Book Heroes! Go behind the scenes to learn about their morning routines, lunch break escapes, and the little wins that make Book Hero happen....
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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