Zone of the Marvelous by Martin Edmond
‘He’s constantly demonstrating that the natural world is as splendiferous as any fable.’ – Jim Shepard, New York Times ‘From Plato’s Atlantis to Dante’s Mount Purgatory, Sinbad the Sailor to Abel…
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Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris by Leanne Shapton
Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris Leanne Shapton, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux ($35) Here’s the Bfm review by Kiran Dass. Enjoy! Lenore…
Autumn 2012 – Newsletter #44
Welcome back to our fairly consistently produced Newsletter. Inside are bibliophilic amounts of new reads to keep you going this Autumn. Click here to jump to the PDF version of…
The Life of Edith Piaf by Carolyn Clark
The Life of Edith Piaf Carolyn Burke, Bloomsbury UK ($25) It seems like it’s harder than ever to separate the legends that have been cultivated around the life of Edith…
Summer 2011/12 – Newsletter #43
Hey, it’s Summer again! That must mean it’s time for another necessarily ripe newsletter. Below is a link to the Auckland Writer & Readers Festival edition of our Newsletter. It’s…
C by Tom McCarthy
C Tom McCarthy, Vintage ($28) Electromagnetics, black bile, radio static- C is a freaky transmission, rare and strange. Now it’s in paperback you have no excuses. Kiran Dass (Unity Wellington)…
Unnerved: The New Zealand Art Project
The Brisbane Gallery of Modern Art in Queensland Australia holds the largest collection of contemporary New Zealand art outside of this country, including works acquired since the 1990’s through the…
Spring 2011 – Newsletter #42
Unity Books’ 2011 Spring Newsletter, including such gems as Nigel Cox, Michael Ondaatje, Madeline Miller, Christopher Hitchens, and A. N. Wilson. Click HERE to open the newsletter pdf in a…
Autumn 2011 – Newsletter #41
All new, all Autumnal. View our pdf newsletter HERE.
At the Mountains of Madness by HP Lovecraft
If you don’t know about Lovecraft’s genre of Cosmic Horror then here is an unfairly-short three-sentence synopsis. Having been witness to the atrocities and senselessness of World War One, atrocities…
