Behind the Scenes - Meet Kevin
Go behind the scenes with Kevin, our Email and Merchandising Hero. Learn about his love for data, his musical background, and how his passion for gaming and snacks helps shape...
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Latest News
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ACOTAR 6 & 7 Are Coming! Pre-order for Day One Delivery!
Big news for ACOTAR fans — Sarah J. Maas has just announced two new books in the A Court of Thorns and Roses series. You can pre-order now for day-one...
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Revealing the 2026 Women’s Prize longlist for Fiction and Non-Fiction
The 2026 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction longlist highlights sixteen incredible books covering science, politics, and personal history. Featuring both famous names and new debuts, these titles celebrate the unique power...
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2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards - shortlist announced
New Zealand’s top literary honours just announced sixteen finalists for 2026. This year’s shortlist highlights a massive range of local voices, from debut poets to former leaders. Whether you love...
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Lizzy's Picks to Unlock Your ADHD Superpower!
Explore a curated selection of ADHD and neurodiversity books perfect for New Zealanders. This guide features accessible introductions, practical life-hacks for executive dysfunction, and empowering memoirs to help you navigate...
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🏁 Drive to Survive Is Back This Weekend
We have F1 fans covered with a brilliant range of Formula 1 books in stock and ready for overnight shipping anywhere in New Zealand. From behind the scenes team insights and driver memoirs to...
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Behind the Scenes - Meet Alastair
Meet Alastair, Book Hero’s co-founder and "Operations Hero." From custom-coding scalable logistics software to managing warehouse infrastructure, Alastair builds the systems ensuring 2,000+ books ship daily. Discover his love for...
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30 Years Young: Why Pokémon Still Captivates the World!
Pokémon celebrates 30 years with major Pokémon Day reveals, a new PokéPark Kanto in Tokyo, and FireRed and LeafGreen on Switch. From late-night UNITE battles to lifelong fandom, here’s why...
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Book Hero's Library
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Predicting Bookish Trends for 2026
From vegetarian cooking to Dystopian Fiction, we're sharing our predictions for 2026 bookish trends!
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Exclusive Q & A with Callie Hart on Writing Quicksilver
Book Hero Nicola was fortunate to be invited to an exclusive Q & A session with Dark Romance and Fantasy author Callie Hart, ahead of her New Zealand tour for...
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Inspiring Reads to Revisit
Book Hero Dylan shares quotes and extracts from inspirational books that carried him through his teen years to his business ventures
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Books To Beat The Monday Blues
If the start of a new week brings you dread, check out our tips and titles that will help you beat the Monday Blues
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Top Business Books from the Book Hero team
Dylan, Alastair and Tim have each picked their their top three Business books that have served as inspiration for their careers, including how they operate Book Hero today! Check out...
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Book Hero Bestsellers June 2025
In this post, we show you the Top Three Bestsellers for each of our top book genres and categories for the month of June.
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Top Five Cozy Crime Books
In this Book Hero Library blog, we show you our top five favourite Cozy Crime novels
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20 Books With Dragons
Book Hero's Dragon Hoard Dragons are so hot right now! With a live-action film remake of the beloved Children's classic How To Train Your Dragon, and the explosion of hot...
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Book Hero's Journey
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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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