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Wellington’s Unity Books: Confidently Going Forward

Unity Books Wellington has just renewed the lease on their Willis Street premises for a lengthy period, so it is good to see such defiance of doom and gloom. The store will also grow larger when Unity’s landlords refurbish the frontage of their building and Unity incorporates part of the entrance lobby into the shop. Tilly Lloyd is not unmindful of the risks, but is “reasonably confident that the paper book will continue to exist and will be needed”. She says, "The refit will be something like a second revised edition".

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Judges 2009

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