Book Hero Abroad: Dylan in Japan 🇯🇵
By Nicola
"I’ve just returned from a short trip to Japan, where I was lucky enough to visit a handful of local bookshops while immersing myself in Japan’s spectacular culture and cuisine.I...
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Job Openings! Are you our next Warehouse Sidekick?
By Dylan
Book Hero is growing fast, so we're looking for new team members to join our crew in the warehouse as Warehouse Sidekick to help shelves new books and fulfil our...
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A Book Sale a Day Keeps the Med Studies at Bay!
By Dylan
We are delighted to report that our great friend Alastair (also known as AI 🤖) has joined the Book Hero team full-time while he takes a break from medical school....
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Meet The Marvellous Marnie! | Our Newest Hero
By Nicola
We recently held our search for a new superhero for our growing team and were lucky enough to find Marnie! A Few Fun Facts About Me... I'm a Beekeeper and...
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We're hiring at Book Hero! 🦸♀️
By Dylan
Love books? Enjoy solving problems and getting hands-on in a fast-paced warehouse? Come join us at Book Hero!We're looking for a new team member to help us keep growing! The...
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Welcome Jordan, our newest Book Hero team member!
By Jordan
Say hello to our newest Warehouse Hero, Jordan!
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Welcome our newest Book Hero team member, Nicola!
By Nicola
Our team is growing! Meet Nicola, a social media-savvy bookworm...
Book Hero Origin Stories...
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Two Years. Three Warehouses. One Wild Ride.
I can’t believe I’m already sitting down to write this blog post. Book Hero isn’t even two years old and we’ve already moved once before, which means we’re now onto...
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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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