Our History

A Low Hum – A Movement Launch, 17th March 2015
Events
October 16, 2017 posted by Unity Wellington

A Low Hum – A Movement Launch, 17th March 2015

Invitation to and photographs from a lunchtime event to celebrate the publication of A Movement – a series of ten books of band photography by Blink (Ian Jorgenson) published by…

Armageddon, 9th April 2011
Events
October 13, 2017 posted by Unity Wellington

Armageddon, 9th April 2011

Kiran Dass prepares stock for our stand at Armageddon, Cameron Hyland minds the stand.

Mystery Shopper, 2nd October 2005
Backstage
October 11, 2017 posted by Unity Wellington

Mystery Shopper, 2nd October 2005

We scored badly on a mystery shopper assessment, but this was one of the years we also were awarded a Top Shop award by Retail NZ. Staff had their own…

The Shop Girls: Bad Book Love, 2001
Backstage
October 11, 2017 posted by Unity Wellington

The Shop Girls: Bad Book Love, 2001

Clearly, when you work in a bookshop, you are also a rock star. This “band”, conceived by Marion Castree, never went on tour or performed any gigs, instead sticking to…

New Zealand Book Month, October 2009
Advertising
October 11, 2017 posted by Unity Wellington

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.  

Nick Bollinger & Adam Dudding Event, 3rd April 2017
Events
October 11, 2017 posted by Unity Wellington

Nick Bollinger & Adam Dudding Event, 3rd April 2017

Nick Bollinger (author of Goneville: A Memoir, published by Awa Press) and Adam Dudding (author of My Father’s Island: A Memoir, published by Victoria University Press) went on a road…

Geoff Murphy Launch, 10th October 2015
Launches
October 10, 2017 posted by Unity Wellington

Geoff Murphy Launch, 10th October 2015

Invitation to, photos from and a review of the launch of Geoff Murphy’s A Life on Film, published by HarperCollins and launched at Unity Books by Bill Sheat. Toby Kearns…