Scorpio Books and Te Herenga Waka University Press warmly welcome you to the launch of Have This Heart by Lawrence Patchett.

Have This Heart is a compulsively readable story collection about men who are trying to do better. Whether training a rescue dog, starting a bucket chain to put out a raging fire, raising a marquee beside a line of Ferraris, or reporting on a sensitive workplace accident, the men in Have This Heart are striving for more. For connection, for humour, for a way back into the world.

Lawrence Patchett’s stories are about men at work and what happens when your life doesn’t let you hide. These are tightly coiled stories, rich with rough talk and fear-sweat and tenderness.

All welcome, this is a free event. Refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP.

About the author

Lawrence Patchett is a Pākehā writer from Ōtautahi Christchurch. His previous books include I Got His Blood on Me: Frontier Tales, which won the NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award for Fiction. His writing has appeared in Landfall, Overland, New Zealand Geographic, and in newspapers, and he received the Ursula Bethell Residency and the Todd New Writer’s Bursary. He works as an editor and part-time in the restoration of native forests and wetlands.