VOLUME has just been awarded the People's Choice Award for BEST N.Z. PROVINCIAL RETAILER at the 2018 Retail Hotlist Awards. Many thanks to all our customers and fellow travellers, our colleagues in the book trade, Retail New Zealand, and everyone else working to build interesting communities and make retail more dynamic. 
The judges said: "There’s something about independent bookstores that inspires intense passion in their customers. Many of New Zealand’s best-loved indies are venerable institutions that have served their shoppers for decades, but at a little over one year old, Volume is the upstart little sister to this kind of bookstore. Co-founders Stella Chrysostomou and Thomas Koed haven’t let their combined 35 years of experience in the book trade stop them from moving fast and taking risks." And many thanks, everybody, for your kind words, cakes, chocolates, coffees, champagne, flowers, cards, &c, but, especially, thank you for supporting your independent bookshop and sharing our enthusiasm for interesting books.