Books Archive
Women, pain and anti-vaxxers: Why medicine is due for a feminist reckoning
Gabrielle Jackson is a Sydney-based Guardian journalist who has written a book about her pain, and the pain of women, and the ways in which the medical system is making it worse.
Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending September 6
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 Friday Poem: Love Poem after Seven Years by Carrie Rudzinski
A new poem by performance poet Carrie Rudzinski.
‘The country we have is already a ghost’: On stories, and hope, and climate change
Ahead of his appearance at the Going West Festival, author Jeff Murray insists the stories we tell ourselves – and each other – will make all the difference in how we cope with climate change.
The Wednesday Poem: Thx 4 the memories by Paul Millar
A poem by Christchurch scholar Paul Millar.
Linda Burgess, this is your life: her new essay collection, reviewed
Loved Linda Burgess's essays for The Spinoff? Now she's written a whole book of 'em. And it is, predictably, terrific.
The Unity children’s bestseller chart for the month of August
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.
Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending August 30
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 Friday Poem: Art by Susanna Gendall
A prose poem by Wellington writer Susanna Gendall.
Adapt or die: Pacific Laureate Lani Wendt Young is not messing around
In a speech for the NZ Book Council tonight, Samoan/Māori writer Lani Wendt Young landed hit after hit on the all-white castle of publishing, finishing with this rallying cry for change.
Review: a true crime megafan tears into a new book on the Manson murders
Jean Sergent is left bemused and beaten-down by CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, a book that sucked up two decades of the author’s life.
A poetic truth, a love letter: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, reviewed
Ruby Porter on the first novel by acclaimed Vietnamese-American poet Ocean Vuong.
I dive into grief: How giving in to anguish helps us make sense of mourning
Aotearoa needs to learn to make space for mourning.
Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending August 23
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 Friday Poem: Superman by Nick Ascroft
A new poem by Oamaru-born poet Nick Ascroft.
An inheritance of harm: Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys, reviewed
Colson Whitehead's latest novel follows two boys through the horrors of a real-life reform school in Florida. Our reviewer is Aaron Smale, whose reporting on similar schools in New Zealand led to a Royal Commission of Inquiry.
How shit I am: a poet on her first slam
Prolific, award-winning Palmerston North poet Paula Harris somehow manages to be stroppy and properly vulnerable all at once. Here, she writes about her first slam competition – and why she cried all the way home.
The Friday Poem: to convince myself we’re dreaming by Loren Thomas
A new poem by Waikato poet Loren Thomas.
Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending August 16
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.
‘We need more of everything’: a call for better writing about disability
More than a century after Dickens gave us Tiny Tim, writers often fail to make disability anything other than a narrative crutch.
Behind the beautiful, bucolic cover of women’s poetry book Wild Honey
Paula Green, madwoman, took it upon herself to launch three (3) books this month. The biggie is Wild Honey, a deeply-researched but accessible tribute to women poets in New Zealand. We've a review underway, but for now, let's talk about the cover – the bit that hits you first. It's a painting by artist and writer Sarah Laing, bright and stingingly gorgeous. Somehow, amid the maelstrom, Paula managed to write this piece about how the cover came to be, and how it connects with the pages inside.
Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending August 9
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 Friday Poem: ‘Cruelty to Animals’ by James Brown
New work by Island Bay poet James Brown.
Nicely bodystoned in Palmerston North: an extract from new novel The Boyfriend
An extract from new novel The Boyfriend, the prizewinning book from the 'Jane Austen of Te Aro Valley'.
