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AFTERGLOW: Gregory O’Brien & Jenny Bornholdt
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September 27, 2019 posted by Unity Wellington

AFTERGLOW: Gregory O’Brien & Jenny Bornholdt

Unity Books was full of familiar faces on Thursday 19th September as former shop girl Jenny Bornholdt and partner Gregory O’Brien joined us, each with a new book to launch….

Interview | Jane Arthur
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September 25, 2019 posted by Unity Wellington

Interview | Jane Arthur

We will soon be celebrating the launch of Jane Arthur’s debut poetry collection, Craven, (VUP) 6-7:30pm Tuesday 1st October. Jane shared some excellent books and authors with us and posed…

AFTERGLOW: Elizabeth Knox – The Absolute Book
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September 18, 2019 posted by John Duke

AFTERGLOW: Elizabeth Knox – The Absolute Book

A generous book filled with all of the author’s passions and interests, is how Elizabeth Knox’s new door-stopper novel The Absolute Book was characterised at a star-studded launch at Unity…

AFTERGLOW: John Connolly – A Book of Bones
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September 18, 2019 posted by Unity Wellington

AFTERGLOW: John Connolly – A Book of Bones

Friday 13th September was a red letter day for the mystery readers of Wellington as Unity Books was paid a special visit by bestselling author John Connolly. Here to talk…

AFTERGLOW: Promises, Promises
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September 14, 2019 posted by Unity Wellington

AFTERGLOW: Promises, Promises

Political propaganda was on our minds on the evening of Tuesday 10th September as we celebrated the launch of Promises, Promises: 80 Years of Wooing New Zealand Voters by Claire…

AFTERGLOW: The Little Ghost Who Lost Her BOO!
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September 14, 2019 posted by John Duke

AFTERGLOW: The Little Ghost Who Lost Her BOO!

Thursday 5th September 2019 was the date for an all ages shindig as Unity Books Wellington hosted a special celebration of Elaine Bickell’s Storylines Joy Cowley Award winning picture book…

Interview | Gregory O’Brien
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September 11, 2019 posted by Unity Wellington

Interview | Gregory O’Brien

We are excited to soon be hosting the double launch for Lost and Somewhere Else by Jenny Bornholdt (VUP) and Always Song in the Water by Gregory O’Brien (AUP), 6-7:30pm…

Interview | Elizabeth Knox
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September 10, 2019 posted by Unity Wellington

Interview | Elizabeth Knox

Before our launch for The Absolute Book (VUP) 6-7:30pm Thursday 12th September 2019, Elizabeth Knox wrote to us about writing, reading, cooking, elderly cats, Ursula le Guin and Blackburn fever….

AFTERGLOW: Relative Strangers
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August 29, 2019 posted by John Duke

AFTERGLOW: Relative Strangers

Thursday, August 22nd was a night for fierce and unflinching women as Pip Murdoch launched her emotional memoir, Relative Strangers: A Mother’s Adoption Memoir, published by Fern Publishing, to a…