AFTERGLOW: Mansfield & Me by Sarah Laing
Mansfield & Me: A Graphic Memoir by Sarah Laing $35 pb Victoria University Press Thursday, 6th October 2016 It was our pleasure to host the launch for this much awaited…
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AFTERGLOW: Constitution for Aoteroa New Zealand by Geoffrey Palmer & Andrew Butler
Wednesday 5th October 2016: Sir Geoffrey Palmer, Andrew Butler and Dr Dean Knight spent forty minutes discussing, for the benefit of a full house, the ethos and driving spirit behind…
AFTERGLOW: Broken Decade: Prosperity, Depression & Recovery in NZ, 1928-39 by Malcolm McKinnon
Unity Books was full like an unopened sugarbag on Wednesday evening to celebrate the launch of Malcolm McKinnon’s Broken Decade. Rachel Scott of Otago University Press introduced the book as…
AFTERGLOW: Songs of the City by MaryJane Thomson and Rock & Roll by Mark Pirie
Tuesday 27th September we had our first launch in the new daylight hours. A double header! Beginning with Songs of the City by MaryJane Thomson, her third collection of poetry…
AFTERGLOW: Through the Eyes of a Miner: The Photography of Joseph Divis
An MP, a volcanic photographer, a National Librarian/Archivist and a Geologist/Historian walk into a bookshop (that has a bar). It was a great set up for a joke, but instead…
AFTERGLOW: Justin Cronin
City of Mirrors / The Twelve / The Passage by Justin Cronin, with thanks to Orion Publishing and Hachette NZ. A city like Wellington attracts its fair share of apocalyptic…
AFTERGLOW: The New Torchlight List: In Search of the Best Modern Authors by Jim Flynn
A fearless and forthright Jim Flynn visited the shop this Friday lunchtime to introduce us to authors and titles that feature in his second torchlight list, The New Torchlight List:…
AFTERGLOW: Lecretia’s Choice by Matt Vickers
30th August 2016: A lunchtime event at Unity Books Wellington, with Matt Vickers talking to and taking questions from the curious audience. Lecretia’s Choice: A Story of Love, Death &…
AFTERGLOW: Six Poets in Sixty Minutes
National Poetry Day at Unity Books in Sixty Words or Less: Hera Lindsay Bird; Harvey Molloy; Bill Nelson; Rachel O’Neill; Kerrin P Sharpe; Tim Upperton. Six poets. Sixty Minutes. 32…
AFTERGLOW: Nadia Hashimi
Monday the 29th of August saw a small keen crowd of humans forgoing their lunch hours for some literary nourishment, in store at Unity Books Wgtn. Guest speaker, novelist Nadia…
