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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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...
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Winner Announced! Win a Year of Free Books
By Dylan Bland
To celebrate the launch of Book Hero we decided to give away a year of free books to one lucky Book Hero customer! Entries were given for signing up to...
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Limited stock - Bake with Brooki now shipping!
By Dylan Bland
Update: 05 November - more stock secured! Limited stock available The internet's favourite baker has finally hit Kiwi shelves with Bake with Brooki and Book Hero has a limited number available today for...
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New arrivals for Crime & Thriller fans...
By Dylan Bland
If you're a fan of Crime & Thrillers you'll be interested to learn that Jame Patterson's The House of Cross (Alex Cross 32) has arrived into stock today, as well...
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Attention Jeremy Clarkson fans! The latest Diddly Squat has arrived into stock
By Dylan Bland
I'm late to Clarkson's Farm having just started Season 2 but I'm absolutely hooked and can't wait to binge the entire series. Fans of the series will be happy to...
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Stanley Tucci returns into stock with his latest book What I Ate In One Year
By Dylan Bland
Released a couple of weeks ago - but new to Book Hero - we were excited to see our copies of Stanley Tucci's latest book What I Ate In One Year arrive...
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NZ Herald: Mighty Ape co-founder turns Book Hero
By Dylan Bland
Chris Keall from The New Zealand Herald visited Tim, Jeremy and Dylan at the Book Hero warehouse a couple of days ahead of the launch. They discussed why they created...
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Ana Huang's latest steamy sports romance, now shipping...
By Dylan Bland
Another new release found its way to the warehouse today - Ana Huang's latest steamy sports romance The Striker. Order now and you'll not only enjoy lightening fast overnight NZ-wide delivery...
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The final chapter in Stephen Fry's Mythology Series now shipping...
By Dylan Bland
It's been a busy day of new releases at Book Hero HQ with the arrival of Stephen Fry's Odyssey, the final chapter in his retellings of the Greek Myths. Odyssey brings...
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Lee Child's latest Jack Reacher now shipping!
By Dylan Bland
In Too Deep the latest instalment of Lee Child's Jack Reacher series has arrived into the warehouse today with a great opening week price of only $28 (save $10 off retail)....
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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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