Communications Book, August 2006
Selected pages from the Comms book of 2006 – a means of passing on important information when people’s shifts don’t overlap.
Our History
Best Bookshop, Wellingtonista Awards, 1st December 2008
Unity Books was nominated for, and subsequently won the “Best Shop” award by voters who visited Wellington website Wellingtonista.com
The New Colenso Guide to Enjoying Summer, 1999
Advertising agency New Colenso asked us to contribute our “best summer reads” for this compilation of fun things to do in the sun. We’ve extracted the relevant pages, and some…
Summer Catalogue, 1998
Our picks of the season, Summer 1998.
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…
First Plastic Bag run, 2000
In 2000 we got our first run of customised plastic bags, featuring Nigel Cox’s text (riffing on Italo Calvino) and the names of several of our favourite local and international…
The Art of Books, 23rd April 2013
We find that book titles and cover designs often converge on similar themes. Here’s one of our favourite “sets”.
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…
