Celebrating our bookshops
       
     
The best books of 2025 so far
       
     
The Best Books Of 2025 (So Far), According To Local Booksellers & Bookish Types
       
     
Who stays up till midnight to buy a book?
       
     
‘I am a proud reader of some objectively terrible books’: Time Out’s Abby Irwin-Jones
       
     
Authors and book lovers share their favourite NZ reads
       
     
Kiwi booksellers band together to take on Amazon
       
     
The Best Independent Bookstores in Auckland & Online
       
     
Ten of Auckland's Best Independent Bookshops for 2024
       
     
Bookstores hanging in
       
     
Bookie Wonderland: How book club became the new nightclub
       
     
Amazon Australia opens up to NZ customers
       
     
Booksellers' Favourite Books Of All Time
       
     
3 best New Zealand bookshop owners on top reads and tricks of the trade
       
     
Covid-19: Aucklanders make history in museum's lockdown collection
       
     
Coronavirus: Readers turn to books on self-care, wellbeing during lockdown 2.0
       
     
Like Christmas: New Zealand's post-Covid books boom
       
     
How to open a bookstore in Mt Eden
       
     
Auckland's Time Out Bookstore serves customers with pizza paddle.
       
     
Pizza peel pickup: Business owners ring changes to meet heavy demand
       
     
Meet the 14-year-old who’s worked in Aotearoa’s book industry since he was eight
       
     
Congratulations to the Albert-Eden Business Awards winners
       
     
The Time Out Bookstore
       
     
Matt Heath: Not everyone's on my positive trip
       
     
The Great Kiwi Smoko
       
     
Independent bookshop owners hope new government to make Amazon pay GST
       
     
National bookshop day this weekend
       
     
Two in a Row! Time Out Bookstore Win Again!
       
     
Auckland's Time Out Bookstore up for international Bookstore of the Year award
       
     
Time Out Bookstore shortlisted for world's best bookstore at London Book Fair
       
     
The book of Eli: How an 8-year-old came to work at a bookstore
       
     
From Fifty Shades to the classics, independent bookstores are thriving
       
     
Young people, they're my secret
       
     
Tiny Time Out takes Bookseller of the Year
       
     
Bright Young Things: Meet six retail superstars
       
     
New Zealand protests planned in solidarity with banned book
       
     
Auckland bookstore's quiet protest against banned book
       
     
Book Trade Industry Awards prove a passion for books creates profits
       
     
Jenna Todd knows what you read last summer
       
     
Celebrating our bookshops
       
     
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Celebrating our bookshops

AFTERNOONS, RNZ / 10 October 2025

The best books of 2025 so far
       
     
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The best books of 2025 so far

RNZ / 18 June 2025

The Best Books Of 2025 (So Far), According To Local Booksellers & Bookish Types
       
     
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The Best Books Of 2025 (So Far), According To Local Booksellers & Bookish Types

MADELEINE CRUTCHLEY, Viva / 5 June 2025

Who stays up till midnight to buy a book?
       
     
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Who stays up till midnight to buy a book?

MADELEINE CHAPMAN, The Spinoff / 24 September 2024

‘I am a proud reader of some objectively terrible books’: Time Out’s Abby Irwin-Jones
       
     
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‘I am a proud reader of some objectively terrible books’: Time Out’s Abby Irwin-Jones

The Spinoff / 18 September 2024

Authors and book lovers share their favourite NZ reads
       
     
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Authors and book lovers share their favourite NZ reads

RNZ | 29 December 2023

Kiwi booksellers band together to take on Amazon
       
     
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Kiwi booksellers band together to take on Amazon

RNZ | 22 October 2023

The Best Independent Bookstores in Auckland & Online
       
     
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The Best Independent Bookstores in Auckland & Online

The Denzien I 9 JUNE 2023

Ten of Auckland's Best Independent Bookshops for 2024
       
     
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Ten of Auckland's Best Independent Bookshops for 2024

Concrete Playground | 1 April 2023

Bookstores hanging in
       
     
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Bookstores hanging in

Newsroom | 29 January 2023

Bookie Wonderland: How book club became the new nightclub
       
     
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Bookie Wonderland: How book club became the new nightclub

BETHANY REITSMA, NZHerald I 16 April 2021

Amazon Australia opens up to NZ customers
       
     
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Amazon Australia opens up to NZ customers

1 NEWS I 6 July 2021

Booksellers' Favourite Books Of All Time
       
     
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Booksellers' Favourite Books Of All Time

Viva | 11 May 2021

3 best New Zealand bookshop owners on top reads and tricks of the trade
       
     
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3 best New Zealand bookshop owners on top reads and tricks of the trade

SARAH CATHERALL, Woman Magazine I January 2021

Covid-19: Aucklanders make history in museum's lockdown collection
       
     
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Covid-19: Aucklanders make history in museum's lockdown collection

JOSEPHINE FRANKS, Stuff I October 2020

Coronavirus: Readers turn to books on self-care, wellbeing during lockdown 2.0
       
     
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Coronavirus: Readers turn to books on self-care, wellbeing during lockdown 2.0

Stuff I August 30 2020

Like Christmas: New Zealand's post-Covid books boom
       
     
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Like Christmas: New Zealand's post-Covid books boom

The Guardian I May 23 2020

How to open a bookstore in Mt Eden
       
     
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How to open a bookstore in Mt Eden

JENNA TODD, Newsroom I April 23 2020

Auckland's Time Out Bookstore serves customers with pizza paddle.
       
     
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Auckland's Time Out Bookstore serves customers with pizza paddle.

Stuff I April 28 2020

Pizza peel pickup: Business owners ring changes to meet heavy demand
       
     
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Pizza peel pickup: Business owners ring changes to meet heavy demand

MATTHEW THEUNISSEN, RNZ I April 28 2020

Meet the 14-year-old who’s worked in Aotearoa’s book industry since he was eight
       
     
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Meet the 14-year-old who’s worked in Aotearoa’s book industry since he was eight

Seven Sharp I June 7 2019

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Congratulations to the Albert-Eden Business Awards winners
       
     
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Congratulations to the Albert-Eden Business Awards winners

Our Auckland | 24 May 2018

The Time Out Bookstore
       
     
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The Time Out Bookstore

RACHEL O’CONNOR, Books Ireland I March/April 2018

Matt Heath: Not everyone's on my positive trip
       
     
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Matt Heath: Not everyone's on my positive trip

MATT HEATH, NZ Herald | April 30 2018

The Great Kiwi Smoko
       
     
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The Great Kiwi Smoko

KIM KNIGHT, NZ Herald Lifestyle | October 28 2017

Independent bookshop owners hope new government to make Amazon pay GST
       
     
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Independent bookshop owners hope new government to make Amazon pay GST

BRITTANY KEOGH, NZ Herald Business | October 28 2017

National bookshop day this weekend
       
     
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National bookshop day this weekend

WENDYLL NISSEN, RadioLive | October 27 2017

Two in a Row! Time Out Bookstore Win Again!
       
     
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Two in a Row! Time Out Bookstore Win Again!

Booksellers NZ | August 19 2017

Auckland's Time Out Bookstore up for international Bookstore of the Year award
       
     
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Auckland's Time Out Bookstore up for international Bookstore of the Year award

KIM CHOE, Newshub | February 10 2017

Time Out Bookstore shortlisted for world's best bookstore at London Book Fair
       
     
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Time Out Bookstore shortlisted for world's best bookstore at London Book Fair

JAMES PASLEY, Central Leader | February 10 2017

The book of Eli: How an 8-year-old came to work at a bookstore
       
     
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The book of Eli: How an 8-year-old came to work at a bookstore

MATT BURROWS, Newshub | December 20 2016

From Fifty Shades to the classics, independent bookstores are thriving
       
     
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From Fifty Shades to the classics, independent bookstores are thriving

AMANDA SAXTON, Stuff Entertainment | October 30 2016

Young people, they're my secret
       
     
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Young people, they're my secret

CLAIRE DE LORE, The Listener | October 14 2016

Tiny Time Out takes Bookseller of the Year
       
     
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Tiny Time Out takes Bookseller of the Year

Booksellers NZ | July 2 2016

Bright Young Things: Meet six retail superstars
       
     
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Bright Young Things: Meet six retail superstars

LEIGH STOCKTON, The Register | March 29 2016

New Zealand protests planned in solidarity with banned book
       
     
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New Zealand protests planned in solidarity with banned book

ALISON FLOOD, The Guardian | September 9 2015

Auckland bookstore's quiet protest against banned book
       
     
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Auckland bookstore's quiet protest against banned book

TOM CARNEGIE, Central Leader | September 9 2015

Book Trade Industry Awards prove a passion for books creates profits
       
     
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Book Trade Industry Awards prove a passion for books creates profits

Booksellers NZ | June 21 2015

Jenna Todd knows what you read last summer
       
     
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Jenna Todd knows what you read last summer

KIM KNIGHT, Stuff Entertainment | August 16 2015