New Hero Alert! Meet Amy
By Dylan
Our bookshop and online store are open seven days a week, which means customer orders never stop coming in. To keep our overnight delivery promise, books need to be picked,...
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New Hero Alert! Meet Duncan, our Inwards Hero
By Dylan
If you've ever wondered how thousands of books make their way from publishers to our shelves - meet Duncan, the latest Hero to join the team - he makes it...
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New Hero Alert - Welcome Amelia!
By Dylan
Book Hero welcomes Amelia, the fourth Burns sibling, as Category Assistant. A dedicated gamer and puzzle enthusiast, she manages the expanding toys and boardgames range. Amelia brings eCommerce expertise and...
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New Hero Alert! Welcome our new Sales Hero - Toys
By Dylan
Book Hero is officially expanding into the toy market under the leadership of new Sales Hero Tim Fulton. A lifelong collector with a passion for screen-free play, Tim is building...
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New Hero Alert! Welcome our new hero Roopa!
By Dylan
Roopa joins us with a clear focus on two vital areas: streamlining our stock levels to maintain our overnight delivery promise and providing dedicated support for the unique needs of...
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New Hero Alert! Welcome our new bookstore hero Hannah!
By Dylan
Today we’re taking a moment to introduce Hannah - a very special Hero who’s been part of the Book Hero story for a while. Hannah is a University student (Global...
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New Hero Alert! Welcome our new bookshop superstar Lizzy!
By Dylan
Meet the heart of our Hobsonville bookstore and explore a welcome sale filled with some of Lizzy’s favourite books
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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