Writers & Readers meeting notification, 10th March 2012
Staff are summoned to a meeting in preparation for Writers & Readers Week, and Dylan Sherwood explains his noms de plume in this chain of emails from 2012 and 2014.
Tag Archives: Staff
“He Tangata” web page (unused), 21st August 2014
At one point we toyed with the idea of having staff biographies on our website, but it never got very far, partly because we realised that updating our “favourite books”…
Annual Leave Soviet Periodic Table, Summer 2015-2016
Of course we use the periodic table to work out our holiday leave roster, doesn’t everyone?
Eighties Day, 1st October 2010
Eighties Day! Why not?
Cameron Hyland & Kiran Dass, 1st May 2009
Some side-eye from Cameron Hyland in the crime fiction section, while Kiran Dass works on oblivious in the background.
Early Shifts, 5th December 2004
Tilly Lloyd’s note to staff about the start of 2004’s long pre-Christmas shifts.
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…
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…
About that archive… missive from Jan Jackson, 9th August 2017
When Unity embarked on the archive project in early 2017, we quickly realised there might be some material people wouldn’t like to see in the public domain, so we contacted…
Anna Applin resigns as buyer, 8th April 2006
Despite the evidence that NO-ONE LEAVES UNITY BOOKS (see below), people do occasionally resign, and when they do, everyone goes in to half-mourning mode temporarily.
