Customs seizure dispute, 6th July 1992
Customs has seized a few books imported by Unity Books over the years, usually on the basis of “indecency” but this classification almost always been a thin veil for “homosexual…
Behind the Scenes
Customs Seizure, 3rd March 1989
A series of communications from Customs regarding books they seized as they deemed them indecent by the laws of the time.
Christmas Arrangements, 10th December 2013
Dylan Sherwood Jesus Franco Nicholas Krampus keeps us organised and paid over statutory holidays, long shifts and – shock! – time off.
Writers & Readers meeting notification, 10th March 2012
Staff are summoned to a meeting in preparation for Writers & Readers Week, and Dylan Sherwood explains his noms de plume in this chain of emails from 2012 and 2014.
Buyers’ communications, 26th May 2017
A couple of examples of communications between Tilly Lloyd and other staff members.
Kapiti Library supply, 27th September 2000
Unity Books has a strong history of supplying libraries, both by contract and on a casual basis. This letter to Kapiti Public Library in response to a query outlines our…
Press release, 25th July 2002
In 2002, Unity Books and other bookshops including members of some chains, discovered that a group of publishers were investigating selling direct to libraries at larger discounts than they offered…
Montana Awards and more, 22nd July 2003
A meeting agenda including the press release about the books shortlisted for the Montana NZ Book Awards, a list of titles we were stocking for a celebrants conference, information about…
“He Tangata” web page (unused), 21st August 2014
At one point we toyed with the idea of having staff biographies on our website, but it never got very far, partly because we realised that updating our “favourite books”…
Children’s section revamp, 16th November 2016
Due to the growth in sales of children’s books, we had to rearrange most of the section. These are the working documents relating to decisions made and also communicating the…
