40th Birthday arrangements, September 2007
Herding cats in preparation for Unity Books’ 40th Birthday celebrations. Published writers who had worked at the shop in the past or present were asked to do a brief reading…
Behind the Scenes
Four Winds Press & other gossip, 19th March 2007
In the early-to-mid 2000’s Lloyd Jones published a number of pocket-sized books of essays by local writers under his “Four Winds Press” imprint. Here he offers Unity Books the remains…
Beverley Baskerville, Booksellers News, 2007
Beverley Baskerville reports on the issues of the day – including Graeme Beattie’s new book blog, and a piece by Joanne Black predicting the death of bookstores based on one…
Health & Safety violation notice, 22nd March 2005
Caught in the act of incorrect ladder usage!
Staff meeting, 1st June 2003
The staff meeting agenda features some usual suspects, and a little passive-aggressive bitching.
Launch Speeches in New Zealand Books? 14th May 2003
Tilly Lloyd and Jane Westaway discuss the idea of publishing a series of book launch speeches in New Zealand Books.
Staff meeting 7th April 2003
Anna Applin’s illegible agenda for a staff meeting.
Wages meeting, 23rd January 2003
Staff asked for a meeting to propose a rise in the minimum staff wage to $11.50 per hour.
Sale analysis, 10th January 2003
An analysis of the effect of Dymocks & Whitcoulls both running sales at the same time. It was also our last day of remaining open until 8pm on a Friday…
Staff Meeting, 13th November 2002
Agenda items from this staff meetings included the Kiriyama Prize and Hugo Awards lists, a film trilogy-prompted review of our J R R Tolkien holdings, and the very important matter…
