Sir Richard Branson's most recommended books!
By Dylan Bland
I've always admired Richard Branson for bringing a genuine sense of fun to business, celebrating his team, and never being afraid to be himself. Those are qualities I've tried to...
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Don't Let These Books Pass You By
By Lizzy Lockhart
Lizzy rounds up 10 books that have been published this year that she feels are deserving of more hype!
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New Releases to add to your TBR this week (21st July)
By Lizzy Lockhart
Lizzy is here with the weekly round up of all the brand new releases you need on your radar! This week there's a lot of amazing new fiction to get...
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The Book Hero perk that's changing our team 📖
By Dylan Bland
Whenever I see or hear about a book that interests me, I buy it straight away.The $20–$40 investment is almost always worth it, whether I finish the book or not....
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Home Again by Jon Toogood Pre-order Offer
By Shirl Kamariera
Thanks to Hachette Aotearoa NZ, we are super excited to let you know of this awesome pre-order for Jon Toogood's memoir 'Home Again' Anyone who pre-orders the Home Again will...
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The Perfect Winter Reads
By Lizzy Lockhart
Lizzy is here sharing the books she thinks you should pick up this Winter - with everything from fiction novels to get lost in, non-fiction books to help you thrive...
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New Releases to add to your TBR this week
By Lizzy Lockhart
The new week brings a new load of amazing stories to get lost in! Lizzy has rounded up the new releases this week and the titles she is adding to...
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Books for Kids Who Love the Planet
By Lizzy Lockhart
Whether you have a small child who loves traveling to new places, or a homebody who loves reading books with lots of maps and facts in them - I've rounded...
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Asher Emanuel visits Book Hero
By Lizzy Lockhart
We were so grateful to have a visit from Asher Emanual and to have the chance to ask him questions about his powerful new book, The Valley - Crime and...
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New Releases to add to your TBR this week
By Lizzy Lockhart
The new week brings a new load of amazing stories to get lost in! Here are the new releases this week and the titles we are adding to our own...
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New Releases to add to your TBR this week
By Lizzy Lockhart
We've rounded up this week's new releases, with a whole range of fiction options, some very helpful new non-fiction, and highly anticipated children's books!
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Tim’s Top 10 Personal Development Books
By Tim Wackrow
Tim shares the ten personal development books he comes back to again and again, from Tim Ferriss and Naval Ravikant to timeless classics like Think and Grow Rich and How...
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New Releases to add to your TBR this week
By Lizzy Lockhart
This week's new releases include everything from a local psychological thriller, new additions to 2 different dark romance series, beautiful cookbooks, and a couple non-fiction reads about classics and history!...
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Books for People Who Love the Planet
By Lizzy Lockhart
Now more than ever we need to remain connected to the planet we all belong to. One of my favourite things about reading is about how it can connect us...
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New Releases this week that you need to add to your TBR
By Lizzy Lockhart
Our recent non-fiction new releases have some of everything - from brand new cookbooks that are easy but full of nutrition, to spy exposes, celebrity memoirs and travelogues, and guides...
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In Defense of Non-Fiction
By Lizzy Lockhart
Lizzy is sharing some of her recent favourite Non-Fiction reads, ones that are on her TBR, and her tips and reasons for reading more non-fiction in general!
Book Hero Origin Stories...
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The Next Chapter in our Story
Today we’re incredibly excited to share the next chapter in our story. Later this month, we’ll be launching Toy Hero - a brand-new home for toys, imagination and play.
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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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