Interviews

John Connolly
Counter Culture
August 29, 2019 posted by Unity Wellington

John Connolly

Crime Fiction readers rejoice! John Connolly will be joining us for a lunchtime author talk, 12-12:45pm Friday 13th (!) September. All welcome. Before John reaches our shores he let us…

Elaine Bickell
Counter Culture
August 29, 2019 posted by Unity Wellington

Elaine Bickell

Unity will be hosting a celebration of Elaine Bickell’s children’s picture book illustrated by Raymond McGrath, The Little Ghost Who Lost Her Boo! (Scholastic), winner of the Storylines Joy Cowley…

Kate Weinberg
Interviews
August 21, 2019 posted by Unity Wellington

Kate Weinberg

Kate Weinberg spent seven years writing The Truants, using the invaluable ‘room of one’s own’ offered to her by Emma Freud; Suffolk’s Tatler columnist and the mother to Feminists Don’t…

Paula Green
Counter Culture
August 16, 2019 posted by Unity Wellington

Paula Green

This year on National Poetry Day we will be celebrating the publication of Wild Honey: Reading New Zealand Women’s Poetry by Paula Green (Massey University Press). Paula will introduce and…

Pip Murdoch
Counter Culture
August 13, 2019 posted by Unity Wellington

Pip Murdoch

Pip Murdoch let us in on the excellent array of books and authors she has been enjoying. Please join us for the launch of Pip’s new book, Relative Strangers: A…

Alan Duff
Counter Culture
August 13, 2019 posted by Unity Wellington

Alan Duff

In the lead up to our lunchtime author talk with Alan Duff he shared some of his favourite books, authors and public figures with us, including Tim Winton, E. L….

Helen Rickerby
Counter Culture
August 6, 2019 posted by Unity Wellington

Helen Rickerby

Unity Books has stocked many beautiful poetry books both penned by Helen Rickerby and published by her very own Seraph Press so we were excited to read about the authors…

Lisa Taddeo
Interviews
July 22, 2019 posted by Unity Wellington

Lisa Taddeo

Lisa Taddeo is the American author of Three Women who spent eight years of her life moving her family around the country to be in the vicinity of the women…

Elspeth Sandys
Interviews
July 17, 2019 posted by Unity Wellington

Elspeth Sandys

Elspeth let us in on her reading habits in the lead up to our launch for her new book, A Communist In The Family: Searching For Rewi Alley (Otago University…

Steven Toussaint
Interviews
July 4, 2019 posted by Unity Wellington

Steven Toussaint

Forget keto and paleo, Steven Toussaint is currently on a strict diet of one or two “shewyngs” a week along with Divine Comedy supplying general sustenance. Read on to find…