Auckland Writer's Festival Wrap-Up 2026
By Lizzy Lockhart
Lizzy is sharing the things she learned from this year's amazing Auckland Writer's Festival and her tips for what to do next year to make the most of such a...
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10 Books Lizzy Wants After Auckland Writer's Festival
By Lizzy Lockhart
After 17 events and countless conversations at the incredible Auckland Writer's Festival, I now have a TBR pile as big as my lifetime with not only back catalogue titles for...
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Inside Book Hero’s Weekend at the Writers Festival
By Dylan Bland
There is only one afternoon left of the Writer’s Festival and our brains are already bursting at the seams with inspiration and information. Lizzy, Shirl, Alex and Dylan have all...
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R F Kuang visits Book Hero
By Sacha Wackrow
Rebecca F. Kuang dropped by Book Hero while she was in Auckland for the Auckland Writers Festival, and honestly, it was every bit as exciting, thoughtful, funny, and bookish as...
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2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Winner Announced
By Lizzy Lockhart
I was a little worried that going to an awards night for literature might feel like a school assembly that drags on a little too long and leaves you counting...
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AWF Night 1 - Maggie O'Farrell and Patrick Radden Keefe
By Lizzy Lockhart
There are 171 different events across the Auckland Writer’s festival and I managed to get to 2 of the first ones last night! I had been excited to see Maggie O’Farrell (even...
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Lizzy is excited for AWF
By Lizzy Lockhart
The Auckland Writer’s festival is just around the corner (May 15th-17th) and it’s one of my favourite times of the year, a chance to celebrate our storytellers and fact finders,...
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Just Announced: Star-Studded Writers Festival Lineup
By Dylan Bland
The Auckland Writers Festival | Waituhi o Tāmaki has sparked a hiss and a roar following today’s full programme launch. There’s a real buzz in the air as locals look...
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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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