Scorpio Books and Allen & Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand warmly invite you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of The Lost Saint by local award-winning author Rachael Craw. All welcome, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP. Pre-order your copy of The Lost Saint today! ABOUT THE BOOK Recently dumped, heart-broken Ana struggles to put the past behind […]
Always wanted to join a book club? Come join ours! Share your thoughts and hear what others made of our Book of the Month at the Scorpio Books Club. This month, we will be discussing Twist by Colin McCann. What does membership to our book club entail? We meet on the first Tuesday of each […]
Scorpio Books and Mary Egan Publishing warmly invite you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of Unsettled Bliss: whiteness in Aotearoa by Elizabeth Ann Cook. This powerful new book confronts whiteness in Aotearoa – its history, its consequences, and the responsibilities it demands. All welcome, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP. Pre-order your copy of […]
You're invited to our biggest ever Annual Sale! 50-70% selected titles, in stores only. Exclusions apply. Friday 30th May - Sunday 8th June. Stocks replenished daily, so keep coming back!
Always wanted to join a book club? Come join ours! Share your thoughts and hear what others made of our Book of the Month at the Scorpio Books Club. This month, we will be discussing: Bad Archive by Flora Feltham. What does membership to our book club entail? We meet on the first Tuesday of each […]
Scorpio Books and Penguin Books NZ warmly invite you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of 1985: A Novel by best-selling author Dominic Hoey. All welcome, refreshments provided. You can pre-order your copy today! Please send in your RSVP. This event will take place during our annual sale, so there will be limited spaces available. ABOUT THE BOOK […]
Scorpio Books and Auckland University Press warmly invite you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of Tony Fomison: Life of the Artist by Mark Forman. In a career spanning three decades, Tony Fomison (1939-1990) produced some of New Zealand’s most artistically and culturally significant paintings and drawings, the backdrop of which was a life – inseparable […]
Scorpio Books and Massey University Press warmly invite you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of Short – Poto: The big book of small stories – Iti te kupu, nui te kōrero edited by Michelle Elvy and Kiri Piahana-Wong. This event will feature readings from: Claudia Jardine, Māia Te Whetū, Erik Kennedy, Gail Ingram, Heather McQuillan, Isla […]
Scorpio Books and Auckland University Press warmly welcome you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of Terrier, Worrier: A Poem in Five Parts by Anna Jackson. Part autobiography of thought, part philosophical tract, part poetics, a book about chickens and family and seasons, Terrier, Worrier is a literary sequence to be relished as language and as […]
Scorpio Books and Ghostcat invite you to join us for the celebration of Ghosts On Every Corner, the exhibition publication of the eponymous project. Four years of detailed research and meticulous work in miniature has gone into creating scale models of thirteen iconic pre-earthquake Christchurch buildings for Ghosts on Every Corner, a project by Ghostcat […]
Always wanted to join a book club? Come join ours! Share your thoughts and hear what others made of our Book of the Month at the Scorpio Books Club. This month, we will be discussing: The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey. What does membership to our book club entail? We meet on the first Tuesday […]
Scorpio Books and Otago University Press warmly welcome you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of Touch Screen by Philip Armstrong. In this absorbing collection the poet dismantles this now ubiquitous term and helps us see its component parts afresh – ‘touch’ and ‘screen’ strangely reconfigured in today’s complex technological world. All welcome, refreshments provided. Please send […]