The KidLit Pod Interview with Lizzy
By Lizzy Lockhart
Are bookshops dead? Hardly! Book Hero in Auckland has experienced quite the opposite, achieving exponential growth over the two years they’ve been open, warranting the need to open a bricks...
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Kiwi author Geoff Parkes launches debut novel
By Dylan Bland
A gripping murder mystery set in 1980s small-town New Zealand, capturing the stifling atmosphere of a community steeped in secrets. With relentless suspense and a rich cast of characters, this...
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New Pre-order ✨ The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown
By Dylan Bland
We have some exciting news to share this morning! Dan Brown, the #1 bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code, has written an all-new novel The Secret of Secrets which...
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Limited stock! The Peacock and the Sparrow
By Dylan Bland
Today we received a limited number of the surprise best seller The Peacock and the Sparrow - if you want a copy, we recommend you grab it quickly, as stock...
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Auckland Anniversary Weekend - Closed for Pick Ups
By Dylan Bland
Our team will be enjoying some time off for Auckland Anniversary Day, and we will be closed for Pick Ups across the upcoming long weekend. Saturday 25 January - CLOSEDSunday...
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Jacinda Ardern has published a memoir! Pre-order A Different Kind of Power
By Dylan Bland
We're excited that former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced the release date of her new memoir A Different Kind of Power - coming 3rd of June! Launching the book...
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Enjoyed the finale of Silo Season 2? Grab the books and continue the story...
By Dylan Bland
If like us you've just finished watching Season 2 of Silo on Apple TV and would be interested in finding out what happens next, be sure to check out the...
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New Pre-order ✨ Air by John Boyne
By Dylan Bland
Air, the next novel in John Boyne's incredibly popular Elements series is releasing in New Zealand on 8th May and is now available for pre-order on Book Hero! Place your...
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New Pre-order ✨ No Words for This by Ali Mau
By Dylan Bland
A long-time advocate for women's rights in Aotearoa, Ali Mau created the #MeTooNZ journalism project at Stuff and is now the author of the highly anticipated memoir No Words for...
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Winner announced! Win a Year of Free Books!
By Dylan Bland
To help encourage sign ups to our Newsletter and Social Media pages, we decided to give away a year of free books to one lucky Book Hero customer! Entries were given...
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Pick Up your order over the summer holidays!
By Dylan Bland
We're open for pick ups and shipping orders throughout the summer holidays! We're handing your orders over to NZ Post every day we're open, meaning you'll be getting your holiday reads in record...
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Brooki is back!
By Dylan Bland
Our most popular cook book this Christmas has finally arrived back in stock - and again, in limited numbers. Bake With Brooki is a fabulous looking book and would make...
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Shipping today! Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson
By Dylan Bland
We're excited that our Wind of Truth stock has arrived today and we're busy shipping out our customer pre-orders for overnight delivery on the release date tomorrow! We have plenty...
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New! Top 100 Children’s Books from Scholastic
By Dylan Bland
We’re excited to share that we’ve added a fantastic range of best selling books for children and teenagers thanks to our friends at Scholastic. Books are the ideal Christmas gift for...
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Give yourself one less thing to worry about this Christmas...
By Dylan Bland
As Christmas fast approaches we've started to see a lot customers take advantage of our gift wrap service! For just $5.95 we'll wrap your book in premium gift wrap with a...
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Everett’s novel, James, wins National Book Award for fiction
By Dylan Bland
Percival Everett may have missed out on last week's Booker Prize, but today he won the $10,000 National Book Award for fiction, one of the US’s most prestigious literary prizes, for...
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Winner Announced! Harper Collins prize pack
By Dylan Bland
A huge congratulations to Francine B. for winning our fantastic selection of Harper Collins titles in our recent competition on Facebook and Instagram. We've been in touch with Francine and...
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New releases! Latest Jordan Peterson, Haruki Murakami and more...
By Dylan Bland
Today was a busy one! Arriving into stock we also have the latest Jordan Peterson book We Who Wrestle With God, Haruki Murakami's The City and Its Uncertain Walls and James...
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Book Hero's Picks of the Week - don't miss them!
By Dylan Bland
Happy Sunday! We hope you've enjoyed a relaxing weekend and made time away from the screen with your feet up reading a great book ☕📚 Today we’re excited to share...
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Bold Types - celebrating independent Kiwi bookstores
By Dylan Bland
Arrived into stock today is Bold Types a beautiful 197 page coffee table book that pays tribute to 32 of the best independent bookshops of Aotearoa New Zealand. This book celebrates...
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Winner Announced! Win with your Wishlist Competition
By Tim Wackrow
A huge congratulations to Kelsey G. for winning our 'Win with your Wishlist" competition - you've been contacted by email and have recieved a $100 Book Hero gift voucher to...
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Winner of The Booker Prize 2024! Orbital by Samantha Harvey
By Dylan Bland
Orbital by Samantha Harvey has been named the winner of the Booker Prize 2024. Chair of the judges, Edmund de Waal, describes the winner as 'a book about a wounded...
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Fire by John Boyne in-stock and now shipping!
By Dylan Bland
Like many people, I was first introduced to John Boyne through the theatrical release of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, however it was A Ladder to the Sky which...
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Seth Godin's latest book - This Is Strategy - now shipping!
By Dylan Bland
Seth Godin is a personal hero of mine - with his early books Purple Cow inspiring so much of my early work at nzflatmates and Mighty Ape. Seth's daily blog is...
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Back in stock! RecipeTin Eats: Tonight
By Dylan Bland
We've been desperate to get our hands on more stock of Recipe Tin Eats and we're delighted to report that more stock has indeed arrived! Grab your copy from Book...
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Beautiful titles from Huia Publishers now available from Book Hero
By Dylan Bland
We are proud to have a selection of titles from Huia Publishers arrived into stock today - check them out! Our picks include Kei Reira Nga Weriweri which is the te...
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Now Shipping! Black Cap legend Neil Wagner tells his story...
By Dylan Bland
Hot of the heels of the Black Cap's historic test series clean sweep against India comes the release of Neil Wagner's highly anticipated autobiography - All Out. A must-read for Kiwi...
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Book Hero Exclusive: signed copies of A Very French Affair
By Dylan Bland
We're delighted to announce that every copy of A Very French Affair sold on Book Hero has been individually signed with a whimsical and handwritten note by our good friend and author Maria...
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Start your Wishlist and you could WIN
By Dylan Bland
Your Book Hero Wishlist is a great way to keep track of the books you want to read...plus we’ll notify you by email when books come back into stock or...
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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