Acclaimed Wellington poet Amy Brown on how the first months of motherhood blasted her writing life – and, eventually, inspired her radically honest new verse journal.
Uther Dean responds to the essay we published last week, in which Sandra Simpson expressed her frustration at people who misunderstood and disrespected haiku.
What’s the best way to get adults reading? Get them reading when they’re children – and there’s no better place to start than the Unity Children’s Bestseller Chart.
Growing up, Toby Morris rarely saw the New Zealand he knew in comics – until he discovered Terry Teo
The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.
A new poem by Wellington poet Jenny Bornholdt.
Sandra Simpson, champion of haiku, with a plea for those who misunderstand – and disrespect – the form that defines her writing life.
Shags, spiders, salps and seaweeds: get amongst it with our field guide to the best New Zealand field guides.
A new poem by Auckland-raised poet Chloe Honum.
The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.
The new and spectacular atlas, We Are Here, is page after page of haunting, hella beautiful visual data, each chapter introduced with an essay. This one, Lost in the Forest, introduces the section on people.
Ten years ago Stephen Chbosky had a massive hit with coming-of-age novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Now the director/producer/scriptwriter is back with an epic, kid-centric horror.
A new poem by Auckland poet Lily Holloway.
The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.
In what's thought to be the last piece of writing Peter Wells completed before he died, he wonders about his great-grandfather, and the locket he wore all his life.
On the eve of the announcement of the winner of the 2019 Booker prize, books editor Catherine Woulfe outs herself as a giant know-nothing.
Many have been waiting for a book like Celestial Bodies – a story that shakes up entrenched ideas of women in the Middle East.
