Tag Archives: Unity Books

Interview | David Vann
Interviews
April 19, 2020 posted by Unity Wellington

Interview | David Vann

David Vann’s a prolific writer currently renovating a boat in California whose books have been published in 23 languages and in more than 50 countries. For the lockdown edition of…

Interview | Carl Shuker
Interviews
April 19, 2020 posted by Unity Wellington

Interview | Carl Shuker

Carl Shuker is a former editor at the British Medical Journal and the author of four novels. His latest, A Mistake, is a small capsule of a novel that explodes with…

Interview | Becky Manawatu
Interviews
April 8, 2020 posted by Unity Wellington

Interview | Becky Manawatu

Becky Manawatu’s debut novel Auē is a humbling word embrace that captures the strength of aroha in the face of soul-destroying sorrow. Taukiri and Ārama, young brothers born unwittingly into New Zealand’s…

Sarah Laing
Interviews
November 26, 2019 posted by Unity Wellington

Sarah Laing

Let Me Be Frank is a witty tale of life’s ups and downs narrated and illustrated through the lens of one of New Zealand’s greatest cartoonists. Sarah Laing’s autobiographical comic series…

Interview | Hera Lindsay Bird
Interviews
September 27, 2019 posted by Unity Wellington

Interview | Hera Lindsay Bird

Britain’s previous poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, heralded New Zealand poet Hera Lindsay Bird as “the most arresting and original new young poet,” and we couldn’t agree more. Her poetry…

Kate Weinberg
Interviews
August 21, 2019 posted by Unity Wellington

Kate Weinberg

Kate Weinberg spent seven years writing The Truants, using the invaluable ‘room of one’s own’ offered to her by Emma Freud; Suffolk’s Tatler columnist and the mother to Feminists Don’t…

AFTERGLOW: Two Or More Islands
Afterglow
June 23, 2019 posted by Unity Wellington

AFTERGLOW: Two Or More Islands

On Monday the 20th of June, Unity Books was booming with friends and family of Diana Bridge, all gathered for the launch of her latest poetry collection, Two or More…

AFTERGLOW: The Braided River by Diane Comer
Afterglow
May 9, 2019 posted by Unity Wellington

AFTERGLOW: The Braided River by Diane Comer

Launching The Braided River, the new book on personal essays about migration, by Diane Comer was not an easy journey. A fire in the books’ first warehouse home delayed the…

Colin Hogg
Interviews
November 21, 2018 posted by Unity Wellington

Colin Hogg

Colin Hogg is the author of Going South: a Road Trip Through Life, High Road: A Journey to the New Frontier of Cannabis and most recently Sam Hunt: Off the Road. About the book…