AFTERGLOW: From the Cutting Room of Barney Kettle
In November 2012, Unity Books hosted the launch of Kate de Goldi’s novel The ACB With Honora Lee. Nearly three years later, celebrations were underway again – same bookshop, same…
In November 2012, Unity Books hosted the launch of Kate de Goldi’s novel The ACB With Honora Lee. Nearly three years later, celebrations were underway again – same bookshop, same…
Wellingtonians love local books. They also love local beer. When you combine the two, it’s a surefire success. So we were delighted to host an event for Brewed: A Guide…
Thursday 17 September was an evening of family and friends, science and history. More precisely, it was the launch of James Hector: Explorer, Scientist, Leader, by Simon Nathan, and it…
Dinah was greeted by a very large and friendly crowd at the launch of her seventh collection of poetry Ocean and Stone. Both Fergus Barrowman and Greg O’Brien, who introduced…
Jonathan Galassi cuts a formidable figure on the page. He is a man of many literary talents: the publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, a translator of Italian poetry (including…
It’s always a joy to see a large (and excitable) audience at the launch of a début novel – but sometimes, it’s not entirely a surprise that so many people…
Poetry is alive and well in 2015. Don’t listen to any naysayers who say the writing’s on the wall for the old-school written word – at Unity Books Wellington, on…
We hold events for all sorts of books that can have transformative effects on people’s reading experiences – but it’s not so often that we launch a book that is…
On Tuesday 11th August, we were delighted to play host to a book review night in conjunction with Rainbow Wellington and Pink Ink. ‘The best LGBTIA books,’ Tilly Lloyd (Unity…
The day before our event with Bianca Zander, we had promised our friends at Hachette that the weather was going to cooperate. And while it was no stunner, we were…