Re-inventing New Zealand event, 1st June 2016
Invitation to and photographs from a lunchtime event with Roger Horrocks discussing his book Re-Inventing New Zealand: Essays on Arts and the Media, published by Atuanui Press. Photography by Matt…
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Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement, 13th October 2016
Unity Books hosted the recipients of the Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement for a panel discussion with Kathryn Ryan. David Eggleton (Poetry), Atholl Anderson (Non-Fiction) and Marilyn Duckworth (Fiction)…
New Zealand’s Rivers launch, 24th November 2016
Invitation to and photographs from an event featuring Catherine Knight talking with Isobel Ewing about her book New Zealand’s Rivers: An Environmental History, published by Canterbury University Press.
NZIFF Advertisement, 25th May 2016
Our advertisement for the 2016 New Zealand International Film Festival programme features J G Ballard and Philip Roth inside Unity Wellington. Both authors had film adaptations of their books in…
NZ Books Advertisement, 1st June 2016
Our June advertisement for New Zealand Books features two bikes hoping to find bargains in our sale bin.
NZ Books Advertisement, 1st December 2016
John Duke’ bike hanging out in the back room with some books waiting to be shelved forms the basis of our December advertisement in New Zealand Books. Photography by John…
NZ Books Advertisement, 1st August 2016
Our August advert for New Zealand Books features a scooter catching up on some sport-related reading.
National Poetry Day 26th August 2016
For National Poetry Day 2016, we had an event “Six Poets in Sixty Minutes”: Poets Hera Lindsay Bird, Harvey Molloy, Bill Nelson, Rachel O’Neill, Kerrin P Sharpe and Tim Upperton…
Mysterious Mysteries of the Aro Valley launch, 14th June 2016
Invitation to and photographs from the launch of Mysterious Mysteries of the Aro Valley by Danyl McLauchlan, published by Victoria University Press and launched at Unity Books by Elizabeth Knox….
Christmas Advertisement 2016
Our Christmas advertisement re-used our explorer’s map from NZ Bookshop day and referenced Hera Lindsay Bird’s most infamous poem, and some of our favourite sections of the shop.
