Heather McKenzie

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".

The inaugural NIGEL COX UNITY BOOKS AWARD was awarded to Geoff Cochrane by Susanna Andrew and Jo McColl at the 21st Birthday party for Unity Books Auckland this past Saturday (27th Feb).

What a month! It’s been a real ripper. Thank you to all who played a part.

The NZ Book Month team are currently waist deep in entries received for the ASB Wordbank competition and are working on rounding up all the statistics for audience participation, media coverage received and plans for 2010. We'll be able to share these with you next week.

For those attending Heather McKenzie’s funeral tomorrow, our thoughts are with you. Much aroha to you all.

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Message from Victoria University Press

We are tremendously sad to tell you of the sudden death of Heather McKenzie, in the very early hours of Sunday morning.