John Barr Farewell Party, 27th October 1995
An invitation to the farewell for John Barr, who was leaving Booksellers NZ.
Tag Archives: NZ Book Trade
Kapka Kassabova Event, 12th October 1997
Invitation to a NZ Book Council event with Kapka Kassabova at City Gallery.
NZ Post Writers and Readers Bookseller Network, 18th October 1999
In preparation for Writers & Readers Week 2000, Unity set up a network of independent bookshops to ensure books for the festival would be available nationwide – a condition of…
A Song of Unity Books, 25th December 1990
A sort-of-Christmas-card:
Writers and Readers Week, 14th March 1990
The programme-at-a-glance for Writers and Readers Week 1990, annotated by Marion Castree to indicate staff commitments at various launches during the festival.
Menton Book Donations, 1991
An article by Iona McNaughton detailing an effort spearheaded by Louise Wrightson to stock the bookcases of Isola Bella with books and the enthusiastic response by publishers and former holders…
Madonna publishes “Sex”, 21st October 1992
The Evening Standard attempt to pour cold water on the idea of people being excited by the publication of Sex by Madonna. Meanwhile in New York, they report on the…
Quote Unquote advertisement, 1993
An advertisement for Unity Books appears in literary magazine Quote Unquote alongside an article about Warwick Jordan’s mini-chain of second-hand bookshops.
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…
NZ Bookshop Day, 31st October 2015
Competition was intense during our NZ Bookshop Day Kids vs Writers ping pong competition. It was also Halloween, so some competitors came dressed accordingly. Anna Applin acted as umpire and…
