To celebrate the 20th anniversary of New Zealand’s National Poetry Day, Unity Books welcomed local Wellington poets to read their pieces from new poetry anthology Manifesto Aotearoa: 101 Political Poems…
Elizabeth Kostova’s latest novel The Shadow Land was the subject of a fascinating discussion between Kostova and Wellington author Tracy Farr, held at Unity Books on Tuesday 22nd August. Set…
The audience turned up nice and early Wednesday lunchtime to ensure seats to a greatly anticipated conversation on investigative journalism in NZ between Massey University’s Head of Journalism, James Hollings,…
Monday 14th August ’17 This week in Wellington saw the annual celebration of Books published for children in Aotearoa New Zealand. As a warm up to the celebrations and award…
The 2017 Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement were held on Wednesday 9th August and having had a night to celebrate their successes, Unity Books was very pleased to host…
Tuesday lunch time at Unity Books saw the launch of Wellington adoptee Jess Richards’ latest novel, City of Circles. Jess, who is originally from Wales and grew up in Scotland…
Unity Books was thronging once again on Thursday 3rd August as Wellington writer and historian Redmer Yska launched his latest work A Strange Beautiful Excitement: Katherine Mansfield’s Wellington. The book…
On a wet Wellington Friday evening, we were fortunate to host a live rehearsal of the forthcoming production of A Doll’s House, adapted from Ibsen’s original by Emily Perkins. Award-winning…
Time travelers from 1975 and millennial fashionistas peopled readings from two new titles launched at Unity Books this Tuesday 18th July. Fergus Barrowman of publisher Victoria University Press joined Unity…
On Tuesday lunchtime Unity Books hosted a conversation between two first time novelists Rhydian Thomas and Dominic Hoey about politics, fiction writing and their roots in the underground music scene….
