Madison Hamill's first book, a collection of essays called Specimen, was recently launched at Unity Books. Here she answers a few questions about the book.In your author’s note you say ‘sometimes tell…

A packed out Unity Books (photo courtesy of Unity Books)We launched Head Girl by Freya Daly Sadgrove and 2000ft Above Worry Level by Eamonn Marra at Unity Books in Wellington on 13 February. Thanks to…

Where Therese Lloyd puts silly questions to Nick Ascroft and gets even sillier answers...What is your greatest fear?I like the idea that my fears are great. Other people might call me a coward and thi…

Amy Brown’s new poetry collection Neon Daze was published this month. It’s been six years since her last book, the remarkable and brilliant epic poem The Odour of Sanctity. A lot has happened for Amy…

I first met Rose in Shanghai in 2016. I was studying Chinese there and Rose was on her big China trip—the very same trip mentioned in this book. I’d gotten a Facebook message from Eamonn, a mutual fri…