Time Out Bookstore

30/04/2026

Our April bestsellers! Our customers have been both reading local and preparing for .

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29/04/2026

That was April! Here’s what the team loved selling this month.

29/04/2026

In preparation for the Auckland Writers Festival, Jenna talked about Lily King’s Heart the Lover & Writers and Lovers. These connected books are for writers, readers and romantics. Capturing the magic of early love in a pre-technoloical dating era - they are nostalgic, uplifting (whilst being sad) and deceptively simple.

You can book tickets to Lily’s session at AWF here:
https://www.writersfestival.co.nz/programmes/event/lily-king-heart-the-lover/2224523/

Listen to Jenna’s chat with Rosetta and Milly below. https://www.timeout.co.nz/blog/heartthelover2026

23/04/2026

Our ANZAC weekend hours. 🌾

22/04/2026

The 2026 Women's Prize shortlist was announced first thing this morning and includes Time Out bestsellers The Correspondent, Heart the Lover and Flashlight.

The US writers join four debut authors in demonstrating ‘the complexity and beauty of the female experience’, said chair of judges Julia Gillard

22/04/2026

We’re in today’s ! You can pick this up in today’s NZ Herald or read online.

Thank you to for the interview. Photos by .

21/04/2026

Here are Katie's latest picks from the kids' room. We also have details on this week's Global Book Crawl and a double spy launch on Monday 27th April (ANZAC Day observed.)

Read here:
https://view.flodesk.com/emails/69c33acc52d536bc80c71587

20/04/2026

Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, Paradiso 17 is Nate’s picks of the bunch.

The book follows the entirety of Sufien’s deeply melancholic life as he looks for home after being displaced from his home in Palestine in 1948.

A lyrical read, where every line is beautiful and a strong sense of place is evoked. The book is based on the life of the author’s father.

Listen to his chat with Milly & Rosetta below. The Women’s Prize for Fiction’s shortlist is out this week!
https://www.timeout.co.nz/newsreviews

15/04/2026

Are you up for a bookshop adventure? Join us for the 2026!

This is the first year Aotearoa has taken part in this exciting globe-spanning event, and we have so many amazing bookshops to explore!
Collect a GBC passport from participating bookstores, collect stamps from the stores you visit, then hand in your passport to be in to win awesome bookish prizes!
Visit and collect stamps from any 3 participating stores around Auckland from April 20th to April 26th to enter. After you've collected 3 stamps, each additional stamp will give you an extra entry in the prize draw. We've got signed books, book vouchers, stickers, bookmarks, trinkets and more up for grabs!
Gather your pals and start planning your .nz now!

Participating bookstores are listed below:





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13/04/2026

Congratulations to Shana Chandra on her new novel, Banjara. We have signed copies on the shelf and also reviewed this on ’s Loose Reads.

Listen at the link in the bio.

13/04/2026

We LOVED visiting RNZ and the Morning Report team this morning. Listen to our interview below.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2019030865/independent-bookstore-in-auckland-s-mt-eden-turning-a-new-page

12/04/2026

A jewel in the bookselling trade is under new management by Steve Braunias.

A jewel in the bookselling trade is under new management