Scorpio Books

Two modern-day troubadours brought together by the poetry of two Sylvia’s. Just Janie and Sig Wilder are banding together with their new double single 'Sylvia'. Fusing nostalgic Laurel Canyon folk and alt-country grit onstage in a 'songwriter rounds' format, they will share the songs and stories of the music that made them. Sig and Janie […]

Scorpio Books and Canterbury University Press warmly welcome you to the launch of Lily, Oh Lily: Searching for a Nazi ghost by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman. All welcome, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP and pre-order your book today. Lily Hasenburg was just such a figure in Holman’s growing years. She was whispered into his […]

Scorpio Books and Penguin Random House New Zealand warmly welcome you to the launch of Wild Walks Aotearoa by Hannah-Rose Watt. All welcome, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP and pre-order your book today! Wild Walks Aotearoa is an informative, inspiring and visually stunning guide to tramping in New Zealand, for walkers of all […]

Scorpio Books and Bateman Books warmly welcome you to an author talk starring Monty Soutar to celebrate the release of the second instalment in the Kāwai series, Kāwai: Tree of Nourishment. All welcome, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP and pre-order your book in hardback or paperback format today. ABOUT THE BOOK It’s 1818 […]

Scorpio Books and Penguin Random House New Zealand warmly welcome you to the launch of The Gavin Bishop Treasury: 10 Favourite Fairy Stories and Original Tales by Gavin Bishop. All welcome, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP and pre-order your book today! ABOUT THE BOOK Comprising over two hundred pages of fabulous storytelling and […]

Scorpio Books and Massey University Press warmly invite you to an evening with Professor Michael Belgrave, author of new book Becoming Aotearoa, and Associate Professor Lyndon Fraser. All welcome, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP and pre-order your book today! ABOUT THE BOOK In the first major national history of Aotearoa New Zealand to […]

Scorpio Books and Massey University Press warmly invite you to the launch of Woolsheds: The historic shearing sheds of Aotearoa New Zealand by Annette O’Sullivan and Jane Ussher. All welcome, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP and pre-order your book today! ABOUT THE BOOK Towards the end of the nineteenth century, wool, mutton and […]

Scorpio Book and Cold Hub Press warmly invite you to the launch of Hotel Theresa by Doc Drumheller. All welcome, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP and pre-order your book today! ABOUT THE BOOK The Hotel Theresa is a landmark in Harlem, New York City, where legendary figures like Josephine Baker, Duke Ellington, Malcolm […]

Walker Books and Scorpio Books warmly invite you to the launch of The Strange and Unlikely Tale of Montgomery, the Mysterious Bird of Mystery by Antony Elworthy. All welcome, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP. ABOUT THE BOOK From the animator of The Corpse Bride, Coraline and Isle of Dogs, comes a hilarious, illustrated […]

The exclusive first-ever public event for ngā pukapuka pekapeka, the new Ōtautahi micropress, is here. Join us at Scorpio Books to be the first in Aotearoa to get your hands on three carefully curated chapbooks. All welcome, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP. My Moana Girls by Ruby Macomber is a poetry collection dedicated […]

Scorpio Books and Huia Publishers warmly welcome you to the launch of Charlie Tangaroa and the God of War by local author T K Roxborogh. This junior fiction title is the sequel to 2020's Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea, supreme winner of the  Margaret Mahy Book of the Year and winner of […]

Scorpio Books warmly invites you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of Coming In From The Cold: Tautoko Tāne enabling the wellbeing of male survivors of sexual violence by Bex De Prospo Carr, Fiona Clapham Howard and Tony Chamberlain. All welcome, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP. ABOUT THE BOOK This anthology features the courageous […]