Our History
Card from Sue Harris, Christmas 1993
A card from Sue Harris acknowledging the chaos of Unity at Christmas and asking “Is Tilly still there”? She’s still here now, Sue! Although there have been gaps in her…
Annamarie Jagose Launch, 7th November 1994
An invitation to the launch of In Translation by Annamarie Jagose, published by Victoria University Press and launched at Unity Books.
Transworld Christmas card, 1995
An example of why publishers should maybe stick to publishing books and not take up the re-writing of Christmas Carols.
Top Shop Finalists, 1996
Unity was a finalist in the Entertainment, Leisure & Lifestyle category of the 1996 Top Shop competition.
Marion McLeod & Louise Wrightson, 1997
Marion McLeod & Louise Wrightson enjoy a joke in the shop at Perrett’s Corner.
Note from Jessica Hodgson, 27th March 1999
The benefits of having staff who write or are related to writers is demonstrated here. Jessica Hodgson was able to phone her grandfather, Lloyd Geering, to help supply a customer…
Letter of Support, 26th March 1998
A letter from Cecilia Johnson to The Readers & Writers committee expressing dismay that the chosen bookseller for the festival was Whitcoulls. She would have preferred it to be Unity…
Margaret Mahy & Big Al’s Tulip, 1990
International Criminal Mastermind and children’s author Margaret Mahy wrote this note on a scrap of envelope to let Unity staff know she’d stolen a copy of her book The Downhill…
Forbes Williams thanks Unity, 12th July 1993
Letter from Forbes Williams to the “good people at Wellington Unity” to offer thanks for the promotion of his book Motel View.