UNITY WELLINGTON

57 Willis Street, Wellington
04 499 4245
Wellington@unitybooks.co.nz

Shop Hours:
Monday-Thursday 9am-6pm~
Friday 9am-7pm~
Saturday 10am-5pm~Sunday 11am-5pm 

Hey did you know that each month an industry specialist tells the NZ Book Council about three books they're looking forward to seeing in the bookshops in the months ahead?
Well they do. 
Tilly Lloyd, co-owner of Unity Books, Wellington, gives us her pick of publications due out in July (taken  from the Book Councils latest Enewsletter)

Bloomsbury will release The Pleasure Seekers by Tishani Doshi, winner of the Forward Poetry Prize in 2006. We've been looking forward to the arrival of this mildly-hyped debut, partly because of her poetic skills and partly because it looks like it might be another of those big rich sagas of immigration and political comment done so well already by Zadie Smith, Rohinton Mistry, Kiran Desai and Hanif Kureishi.
  Bloomsbury will also release the paperback format of Anne Michaels' The Winter Vault, the long awaited follow-up to her Orange Prize winner Fugitive Pieces. Tackling hydro-electricity, anthropology, memory, desecration and re-creation, this is a novel with perfectly written personal interiors. 

Slightly connected, Hamish Hamilton will release Hopes and Prospects - new analysis and projections from the still-very-charismatic Noam Chomsky. He dissects various global fiascos (war and financial), and discusses his hope for the future and ways to move forward - seeing in the so-called democratic wave in Latin America and in the global solidarity movements a 'real progress towards freedom and justice'.

 Flick us an email at the above adress if you're keen to purchase any of these titles.

 A brief history of UNITY WELLINGTON:

When Alan Preston kicked off Unity Books in 1967, the shop was tiny and cerebral and only whimsically-commercial, a wedge within the OUP showrooms.

Expanding 5 years later into the 2nd of 4 eventual locations on Willis Street, Alan started the pattern of hiring hugely talented & charismatic bookselling staff (including many writers and musicians). Unity Books, always talkative anyway, also began to party. And to augment the exciting bursts of local publishing (and the non-stodgy titles from antipodean distributors) Unity Books began to direct import stock - books that nobody else had. So the shop stood out as something vigorous and radical, even though, as Nigel Cox said in his eulogy for Alan in 2004, Alan still wore his "trouser-coloured-trousers".

And so, due to the reliability of two kinds of daily traffic - the extraordinary mix of people, and the fabulously 'forward' selection of books - Unity Books became two exciting & reliable oases from the annoying sands of the mediocre. This was our foundation. And 42 years later this is always our intention. We lean on our good past but we look outwards towards the things that matter - the books, the people and the street.