Toi Whakaari NZ monologues, 18th -22nd May 1999
Unity staff member Susannah Radford performed in this series of monologues by Toi Whakaari : New Zealand Drama School students. “The mouth is the most dangerous part of a person”.
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Inspirational Quote from David Lascelles, 23rd December 1999
David Lascelles dropped this quotation in to Unity Books during the Christmas countdown in 1999. .
Very Important Contact Details from 1996
Our list of important industry contacts, updates and additions from 1996.
Tilly Lloyd Interview, Fishhead Magazine, March 2014
The March 2014 edition of Wellington magazine Fishhead featured an article about Tilly Lloyd written by Graeme Tuckett.
Politics in the Politics section, 1st May 2005
Most of the shelving, sections and signs in our shop are pretty self-explanatory and uncontroversial. This one seems to have caused some internal debate.
Comrade Hodgson, 2002
When staff member Jess Hodgson went to China, she acquired a holographic badge of Chairman Mao for Alan Preston. I’m not sure how he took the comparison, but as a…
Alex Mitcalfe Wilson, moving boxes, 13th March 2014
People don’t tend to believe us when we say that most bookshop work is manual labour, mainly heavy lifting. Here’s a little visual evidence: Alex with a box of books…
About that archive… missive from Jan Jackson, 9th August 2017
When Unity embarked on the archive project in early 2017, we quickly realised there might be some material people wouldn’t like to see in the public domain, so we contacted…
Anna Applin resigns as buyer, 8th April 2006
Despite the evidence that NO-ONE LEAVES UNITY BOOKS (see below), people do occasionally resign, and when they do, everyone goes in to half-mourning mode temporarily.
In Other Words Closure, 4th May 2007
The Unity crew were saddened to hear of the closing of “In Other Words”, the Plymouth bookshop owned by former Unity shop girl Prudence de Villiers.
