The week’s best-selling books at the Unity 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) Number one for the third consecutive week! Auckland is really mastering the subtle art of not giving a fuck. 2 Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday (Granta, $33) “Initially, … Read more
The week’s best-selling books at the Unity stores in Willis St, Wellington, and High St, Auckland. WELLINGTON UNITY 1 Warlight by Michael Ondaatje (Jonathan Cape, $35) Ondaatje’s Facebook page features a photo of himself as a young, really good-looking guy, lying on his side, wearing jeans, looking all soulful and brooding; the caption is a … Read more
The week’s best-selling books at the 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 doesn’t go in for the positive thinking school of self-help. He makes a good case for struggle….He writes about the need to hone … Read more
The week’s best-sellers at the Unity Books stores in Willis St, Wellington, and High St, Auckland. WELLINGTON UNITY 1 New Animals by Pip Adam (Victoria University Press, $30) As winner of the Acorn Prize for fiction, at the recent 2018 Ockham New Zealand national book awards, Adam pocketed $50,000; last week, she did a grand better, … Read more
The week’s best-selling books at the Unity stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington. AUCKLAND UNITY 1 Warlight: A Novel by Michael Ondaatje (Jonathan Cape, $35) “It’s as if WG Sebald wrote a Bond novel”: ludicrous statement, The Guardian. 2 Less by Andrew Sean Greer (Little, Brown and Company, $35) “Arthur Less and Andrew Sean Greer are handsome … Read more
This week’s best-selling books at the Unity stores in Willis St, Wellington, and High St, Auckland. WELLINGTON UNITY 1 The New Animals by Pip Adam (Victoria University Press, $30) We actually took out the final, over-egged sentence in Brannavan Gnanalingam’s review on Tuesday but we’ll restore it here: “It’s a masterpiece.” 2 The New Ships … Read more
The week’s best-selling books at the Unity stores in Willis St, Wellington, and High St, Auckland. WELLINGTON UNITY 1 New Ships by Kate Duignan (Victoria University Press, $30) New Zealand novel, praised to the skies this week on National Radio; the Spinoff Review of Books looks forward to the forthcoming review by Claire Mabey. 2 … Read more
The week’s best-selling books at the Unity stores in High St, Auckland and Willis St, Wellington. AUCKLAND UNITY 1 What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton (Simon & Schuster, $50) “This is a very uncool opinion among journalists, but I actually quite enjoyed Clinton’s book. It’s a cautionary tale about how far even the most accomplished women … Read more
The best-selling books this week at the Unity Books stores in Willis St, Wellington and High St, Auckland. WELLINGTON UNITY 1 No One Home: A Boyhood Memoir in Letters & Poems by Keith Westwater (Makaro Press, $25) Publisher’s blurbology: “No One Home tells the story of Keith Westwater growing up in 1950s New Zealand. At … Read more
The week’s best selling books at the Unity stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington. AUCKLAND UNITY 1 A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership by James Comey (Macmillan, $38) From the office of the President, tweet 1: “James Comey is a proven LEAKER & LIAR. Virtually everyone in Washington thought he should be fired for the … Read more
The week’s best-sellers at the Unity Books stores in Willis St, Wellington and High St, Auckland. WELLINGTON UNITY 1 Plundering Beauty: A History of Art Crime During War by Arthur Tompkins (Lund Humphries UK, $70) “There is a surprising amount of art crime in New Zealand,” Tompkins recently said in an interview in Lawtalk, the … Read more
The week’s best-sellers at the Unity Books stores in High St, Auckland and Willis St, Wellington. AUCKLAND UNITY 1 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B Peterson (Allen Lane, $40) “Many people have written to me asking what they should read to properly educate themselves. Here is a list of books that I found particularly influential in … Read more
The week’s best-selling books at the Unity stores in Willis St, Wellington and High St, Auckland. WELLINGTON UNITY 1 Terry’s Dumb Dot Story: Treehouse Tale by Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton (Pan Macmillan, $2) Yes, really: $2! 2 Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (HarperCollins, $25) Yes, really: she’s completely fine! 3 Driving … Read more
The best-selling books this Easter at the two Unity stores in High St, Auckland and Willis St, Wellington. AUCKLAND UNITY 1 Pursuing Peace in Godzone: Christianity and the Peace Tradition in New Zealand by Geoffrey Troughton and Philip Fountain (Victoria University Press, $36) Essays edited by two lecturers in religious studies at Victoria University. Chapters include “Remembering Jesus … Read more
The week’s best-selling books at the Unity stores on Willis St, Wellington, and High St, Auckland. WELLINGTON UNITY 1 Pursuing Peace in Godzone: Christianity and the Peace Tradition in New Zealand edited by Geoffrey Troughton and Philip Fountain (Victoria University Press, $40) Essays edited by two lecturers in religious studies at Victoria University. Chapters include “Remembering Jesus … Read more
The week’s best-selling books at the Unity stores in High St, Auckland and Willis St, Wellington. AUCKLAND UNITY 1 The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson (Pan MacMillian, $35) Number one! How come? 2 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson (Allan Lane, $40) Famous people called Jordan: 1 Jordan B Peterson 2 … Read more
The week’s best-selling books at Unity Books stores in Wellington and Auckland. WELLINGTON 1 The Cage by Lloyd Jones (Penguin Books NZ, $38) “Two dishevelled strangers, perhaps fleeing a catastrophe, are given shelter in a hotel in a town in a country near enough to being New Zealand….Unsettling questions are raised by the story. Who watches … Read more
This week’s best-selling books at Unity Books in Wellington and Auckland. WELLINGTON UNITY 1 After Alexander: The Legacy of a Son by Jan Pryor (Heddon Publishing, $30) “The prologue in Jan Pryor’s memoir begins exactly 33 years to the day since her son died from cot death…The reader is drawn into the anguish of the … Read more
This week’s best-selling books at Unity Books in Wellington and Auckland. WELLINGTON UNITY 1 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B Peterson (Allen Lane, $40) Danyl Mclauchlan explains Peterson’s theory of everything, in a review at the Spinoff Review of Books: “Life is an endless series of ruthless dominance contests in which the strong triumph and obtain … Read more
The week’s best-selling titles at Unity Books in Auckland and Wellington. AUCKLAND UNITY 1 Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff (Little Brown, $38) “Here it is, the encyclopedia of Trump the Idiot all in one compendium”: Forbes. 2 Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan (Hachette, $22) Sci-fi. 400 years from now mankind … Read more
The week’s best-selling books at the Unity stores in Auckland and Wellington. AUCKLAND UNITY 1 Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff (Little Brown, $38) The Wolff who cried, “Oh boy!” 2 The Secret Life of Cows by Rosamund Young (Faber, $23) “The author has deep faith in cows having individual personalities … Read more
The best-selling books of the week at Unity Books in Wellington and Auckland. WELLINGTON UNITY 1 Fire & Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff (Little Brown, $38) All-gorilla TV, all the time, and other revelations. 2 The Cage by Lloyd Jones (Penguin, $38) We look forward to Stephanie Johnson’s forthcoming review. 3 … Read more
The best-selling books at Unity Books in Auckland and Wellington. AUCKLAND UNITY 1 Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff (Little Brown, $38) 2 Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece by Stephen Fry (Michael Joseph, $37) 3 The Power by Naomi Alderman (Penguin, $26) 4 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by … Read more
The week’s best-selling books at the two Unity stores. AUCKLAND UNITY 1 Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff (Little Brown, $38) Fake news. 2 Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman (Picador, $35) The book that got made into the movie. 3 Solar Bones by Mike McCormack (Canongate, $23) … Read more
The top 10 best-sellers of the year at Unity Books in High St, Auckland. 1 Hit and Run: The New Zealand SAS in Afghanistan & the Meaning of Honour by Nicky Hager & Jon Stephenson (Potton & Burton, $35) God, really? The bulk of the sales must have been in the opening week, or fortnight, … Read more
The top 10 best-sellers of the year at Unity Books in Willis St, Wellington. 1 Can You Tolerate This? by Ashleigh Young (Victoria University Press, $30) Number one: huzzah! In the old days of New Zealand literary awards, any kind of book – fiction, verse, memoir, whatever – was eligible to win the grand prize and pocket … Read more
The best-selling books at Unity Books in Auckland and Wellington. AUCKLAND UNITY 1 Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece by Stephen Fry (Michael Joseph, $37) Ugh. 2 La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman (David Fickling Books, $35) Please refer to the best books of the year at the Spinoff Review … Read more
A guide to the 20 very best books of non-fiction – essays, memoirs, biographies, even a cookbook and a self-help book for God’s sake! – published in 2017. The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminisms by Rebecca Solnit (Granta, $27) These succinct essays focus on the importance of empathy, the white noise around silence, and the silencing … Read more
Freya Daly Sadgrove, a bookseller at The Children’s Bookshop in Wellington, chooses the very best picture books, chapter books and YA novels of 2017. PICTURE BOOKS THE BEST: I Just Ate My Friend by Heidi McKinnon (Allen & Unwin, $27.99) I’ve seen a bunch of picture books featuring monsters this year, and the trend seems … Read more