Craig Gamble Farewell Party at Nikau, 19th October 2006
An invitation to the farewell party for Craig Gamble who was leaving Archetype Allen & Unwin. Not because he was fired (out of a cannon or otherwise).
NZ Book Trade
Industry Awards, 12th August 2003
A fax from Cherie at Booksellers NZ with the list of winners at the Book Industry dinner awards.
Inauguration of the International Institute of Modern Letters, 14th March 2001
An invitation to celebrate the inauguration of the International Institute of Modern Letters, Te Putahi Tuhi o te Ao at Victoria University of Wellington. This institute, which grew out of…
Book Pricing Article, Evening Post, 16th August 2000
An article about costs for the second printing of Wrestling with the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame by Michael King. Contrasts are made with the price-slashing of Harry Potter…
NZ Bookshop Day, 31st October 2016
For NZ Bookshop Day 2016, we invited customers to explore the bookshop with the aid of our Explorer Map – a modified plan of the shop genre sections – in…
New Zealand Book Month, October 2009
For New Zealand Book Month in 2009, Unity made a big window display and chalked quotations from various New Zealand writers on the footpaths surrounding the shop.
Flying Pig Evening Post article, 5th September 2000
Article in the Evening Post about the imminent collapse of book-website Flying Pig. Contains speculation about various other online schemes, none of which seem to have lasted.
BWB Launch for Boundary Markers and This Is My Place, 30th November 2001
Invitation to the dual launch of Boundary Markers: Land Surveying and the Colonisation of New Zealand by Gisele Byrnes and This Is My Place: Hauraki Contested 1769-1875 by Paul Monin,…
NZ Books Peppercorn Press 50th Issue Party, 20th September 2001
An invitation for a celebration of the publication of the 50th Issue of literary magazine New Zealand Books took the form of a chapbook, containing the poem Jump by Elizabeth…
Dictionary of New Zealand Biography Volume 5 events, 25th October 2000
Booking form for two events in the “History Snapping at Our Heels” series. Organised by the NZ Book Council, these events highlighted particular entries in The Dictionary of New Zealand…
