The only published and available best-selling 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. AUCKLAND 1 Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan (Penguin Random House, $37) McEwan is rightfully getting a lot of flak for suggesting his … Read more
The only published and available best-selling 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. AUCKLAND 1 Home Fire: A Novel by Kamila Shamsie (Bloomsbury, $22) Do not knock this off at 2am; you’ll be bolt awake the … Read more
The only published and available best-selling 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. AUCKLAND 1 Normal People by Sally Rooney (Faber & Faber, $33) After vying for pole position on our top 10 for a few … Read more
The only published and available best-selling 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. AUCKLAND UNITY 1 The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck by Mark Manson (MacMillan, $35) Manson, writing on Twitter recently: “Don’t … Read more
The only published and available best-selling book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 best-seller list recorded every week at at Unity Books’ stores in Willis St, Wellington and High St, Auckland. WELLINGTON UNITY 1 Normal People by Sally Rooney (Faber, $33) Let’s all go round to Leah McFall’s house and force her to … Read more
The top ten best-sellers of 2018 at the Unity store in Willis St, Wellington. See also: The bestselling books of 2018 at Unity, Auckland 1 Less by Andrew Sean Greer (Little, Brown, $35) The most popular book of the year was a novel about gay writer Arthur Less as he travels the world on a literary tour and dreads his … Read more
The top ten best-sellers of 2018 at the Unity store in High St, Auckland. 1 The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck by Mark Manson (MacMillan, $35) Self-help in the Age of Trump. Manson’s book really hit a nerve, and kept pressing it all throughout the year; there was barely a week when The … Read more
The best-selling books this Christmas at the Unity stores in High St, Auckland and Willis St, Wellington. AUCKLAND UNITY 1 Becoming by Michelle Obama (Penguin Random House, $55) The smash-hit memoir of Xmas. 2 Simple by Yotam Ottolenghi (Ebury Press, $65) Cookbook, nominated among the best 20 non-fiction books of 2018 at The Spinoff. 3 Patterson: Houses of … Read more
Only 17 shopping days till Xmas, for God’s sake! Find what you’re looking for by perusing the week’s bestselling books at the Unity stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington. AUCKLAND UNITY 1 Upcycling With Style by Sarah Heeringa (New Holland, $40) Publisher’s blurbology: “Reclaim unloved objects and improve your home and garden with this inspiring … Read more
Only 25 shopping days till Xmas! Prepare NOW by windowshopping the week’s bestselling books at the Unity stores in Willis St, Wellington, and High St, Auckland. WELLINGTON UNITY 1 Becoming by Michelle Obama (Viking, $55) “I love it because it faithfully reflects the woman I have loved for so long”: Barack Obama. 2 Normal People by … Read more
Only 32 shopping days till Xmas! Get in early and peruse the week’s bestselling books at the Unity stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington. AUCKLAND UNITY 1 Simple by Yotam Ottolenghi (Ebury Press, $65) The cookbook of 2018. 2 Past Tense by Lee Child (Bantam, $38) Reacher! 3 Milkman by Anna Burns (Faber & Faber, … Read more
Only 39 shopping days till Xmas! Get in early and peruse the week’s bestselling books at the Unity stores in Willis St, Wellington, and High St, Auckland. WELLINGTON UNITY 1 Tart & Bitter: Four Decades of Dining Nightmares by David Burton (Potton & Burton, $30) Food. 2 The Friday Poem: 100 New Zealand poems edited by Steve Braunias … Read more
Only 46 shopping days till Xmas! Get in early and peruse the week’s bestselling books at the Unity stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington. AUCKLAND UNITY 1 Milkman by Anna Burns (Faber & Faber, $33) “The Man Booker-winning Milkman richly deserves its prize”: New Zealand Listener. 2 Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami (Harvill Secker, $45) … Read more
Only 53 shopping days till Xmas! Get in early and peruse the week’s bestselling books at the Unity stores in Willis St, Wellington, and High St, Auckland. WELLINGTON UNITY 1 Milkman by Anna Burns (Faber, $33) Winner of the 2018 Man Booker prize for fiction. “A young woman is forced into a relationship with an … Read more
Only 60 shopping days till Xmas! Get in early and peruse the week’s bestt-selling books at the Unity stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington. AUCKLAND UNITY 1 Karori Confidential by Leah McFall (Luncheon Sausage Books, $25) Witty, luminous collection by the Sunday magazine columnist. So many zingers! “Karori is like Gloriavale without the … Read more
Only 67 shopping days till Xmas! Get in early and peruse the week’s biggest-selling books at the Unity stores in Willis St, Wellington, and High St, Auckland. WELLINGTON UNITY 1 Karori Confidential by Leah McFall (Luncheon Sausage Books, $25) Witty, luminous collection by the Sunday magazine columnist. So many zingers! “Karori is like Gloriavale without the … Read more
Books, books and more books. No captions because our esteemed Braunias, Steve Braunias is away this week, but still, here are the best-selling books from the Unity stores on Willis Street, Wellington and High Street, Auckland. WELLINGTON UNITY 1 Heart of Jesus Valentino: A Mother’s Story by Emma Gilkison (Awa Press, $40) 2 Transcription by Kate Atkinson … Read more
Only 81 shopping days till Xmas! Get in early and peruse the week’s biggest-selling books at the Unity stores in Willis St, Wellington, and High St, Auckland. WELLINGTON UNITY 1 Transcription by Kate Atkinson (Doubleday, $38) “It is 1940 and Juliet Armstrong, in her late teens, educated but idealistic, is employed by a mysterious arm … Read more
The week’s biggest-selling books at the Unity stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington. AUCKLAND UNITY 1 That F Word: Growing up feminist in Aotearoa by Lizzie Marvelly (Harper Collins, $35) “This book is for the bossy little girl in all of us. It’s time that we disrupted the fuck out of the patriarchy.” … Read more
The week’s best-selling books at the Unity stores in Willis St, Wellington, and High St, Auckland. WELLINGTON UNITY 1 Stardust and Substance: The New Zealand general election of 2017 edited by Stephen Levine (Victoria University Press, $40) Let’s do this, etc. 2 Transcription by Kate Atkinson (Doubleday, $38) “A spy’s assumed identities come back to haunt her … Read more
The week’s biggest-selling books at the Unity stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington. AUCKLAND UNITY 1 Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster, $50) As soon as it arrived, it flew off the shelves; we look forward to the forthcoming review by Dita De Boni, and in the … Read more
The week’s biggest-selling books at the Unity stores in Willis St, Wellington, and High St, Auckland. WELLINGTON 1 Women, Equality, Power: Selected Speeches from a Life of Leadership by Helen Clark (Allen & Unwin, $45) “Helen Clark continues to assert her toughness, time after time. When she faced off against Sir Ray Avery over his proposed … Read more
The week’s best-selling books at the Unity stores in High St, Auckland (which is opening a new children’s bookstore right next door, this weekend, with prizes and balloons and saveloys*; get along, take the kids!) and Willis St, Wellington. *no saveloys AUCKLAND UNITY 1 Warlight by Michael Ondaatje (Jonathan Cape, $35) Popular novel. 2 Exactly: How Precision … Read more
The week’s bestselling books at the Unity stores in Willis St, Welllington, and High St, Auckland. WELLINGTON UNITY 1 We Can Make a Life: A memoir of family, earthquakes and courage by Chessie Henry (Victoria University Press, $35) “I thought I knew the basic outline of what happened that day, but this was the first time … Read more
The week’s bestselling books at the Unity stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington. Throughout are images from Tatau: A Cultural History of Samoan Tattooing, reproduced with permission. AUCKLAND 1 Warlight: A Novel by Michael Ondaatje (Jonathan Cape, $35) The blockbuster novel of 2018. 2 Coming To It: Selected Poems by Sam Hunt (Potton & Burton, $30) New verse … Read more
The week’s biggest selling books at the Unity stores in Willis St, Wellington, and Hight St, Auckland. WELLINGTON 1 Poūkahangatus by Tayi Tibble (Text Publishing, $37) Ashleigh Young, speaking at the book launch: “Hinemoana Baker has said that Tayi’s poems have a liquid quality in the way they rush through time and the way their form … Read more
The week’s biggest selling books at the Unity stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington. AUCKLAND UNITY 1 My Life, My Fight by Steven Adams with Madeleine Chapman (Penguin, $40) Woah! Number one with a bullet, in its first week in the stores; and on Thursday, Penguin announced it had sold the North American … Read more
The week’s bigget selling books at the Unity stores in Willis St, Wellington and High St, Auckland. WELLINGTON UNITY 1 The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson (Macmillan, $35) Wellington succumbs to the lure of Manson’s liberating advice. We blame John Summers. 2 Warlight by Michael Ondaatje (Jonathan Cape, $35) “For … Read more
The week’s bestsellers at the Unity Books stores in Willis St, Wellington and High St, Auckland. WELLINGTON UNITY 1 Poūkahangatus by Tayi Tibble (Victoria University Press, $20) The first book of poetry to claim the number-one spot since the Hera Lindsay Bird phenomenon. “The poetry event of 2018“: Steve Braunias, the Spinoff Review of Books. 2 … Read more