David Bodanis Event, 23rd August 2001
An invitation to an event with David Bodanis, author of E = mc² :a biography of the world’s most famous equation.
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St Patrick’s Day with John O’Donohue, 15th March 2000
An invitation to a St Patrick’s Day event with John O’Donohue at Unity Books, 57 Willis Street. It was standing room only for the charismatic Celt’s readings.
Office Work, 7th December 2010
It’s not all book launches and shelving. Some pictures from the planning side of things.
Writers and Readers Week 2010 – The Aftermath
Lynley Edmeades and Katherine Tuthill after packing stock for Writers and Readers Week 2010.
Writers and Readers Week, 9-14th March 2010
We produced a catalogue featuring writers appearing in Writers and Readers Week 2010:
Writer’s Week, March 2016
Writers Week is always a busy time for Unity Books, when we handle sales at multiple venues across the Wellington.
Eleanor Catton wins the ManBooker Prize, 15th October 2013
We were listening to the live BBC broadcast and were thrilled when we learned that Eleanor Catton was awarded the ManBooker prize for her novel The Luminaries, published by Victoria…
The Luminaries Launch, 3rd August 2013
One of our biggest, most exciting launches ever – for Eleanor Catton’s second book The Luminaries, published by Victoria University Press. This book went on to attract many prizes, including…
Kokopu Dreams launch, 2000
A publicity stunt for the launch of Kokopu Dreams by Chris Baker, published by Huia publishing. Here “victims” of a human variant of calicivirus and hazmat-suited figures assemble outside Unity…
Go Fish signing, 9th October 2009
Al Brown came into the shop to sign copies of his new book, Go Fish, published by Random House NZ. Vanessa Williams was there to pass around the paua fritters…
