New Zealand Post Book Awards event, 16th August 2013
An invitation to and photo from a lunchtime event with NZ Post Book Awards Best First Book (Fiction) winner Lawrence Patchett and fiction finalists Gigi Fenster and Emily Perkins, chaired…
Events
Atul Gawande lecture, 18th May 2015
Flier for a public lecture by Atul Gawande. Unity Books staff were there to sell copies of Being Mortal, published by Profile Books.
Philippe Claudel Event, 8th May 2008
Invitation to a reading by Philippe Claudel, author of By A Slow River, published by Knopf. He was in the country to participate in the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival.
Book Council Event Newsletter, 22nd May 2001
NZ Book Council events in May 2001: Jane Smiley talked with Bill Manhire; David Malouf with Stephen Harris; Edward Rutherfurd with Harry Ricketts and Amy Tan with Mai Chen.
Booknotes Amy Tan event review, Spring 2001
Laura Kroetsch describes the surreal and awful-but-hilarious experience of hosting a literary dinner with author Amy Tan at a venue indifferent to hosting responsibilities.
Mark Blumsky Te Papa Press Invitation, 17th November 2000
An invitation from Mayor Mark Blumsky to the launch of Wellington’s Heritage – plants, gardens and landscapes by Winsome Shepherd, published by Te Papa Press and launched at Wellington City…
Writers Week, 7th – 12th March, 2014
Writers Week is a crazy, exhausting and enthralling time for Unity Books. Here are some snippets from 2014.
David Bodanis Event, 23rd August 2001
An invitation to an event with David Bodanis, author of E = mc² :a biography of the world’s most famous equation.
St Patrick’s Day with John O’Donohue, 15th March 2000
An invitation to a St Patrick’s Day event with John O’Donohue at Unity Books, 57 Willis Street. It was standing room only for the charismatic Celt’s readings.
