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SUMMARY:Mead & Read
DESCRIPTION:Colony is proud to be partnering with Scorpio Books to bring together two of our favourite things – a great mead with a great book! \nEach month at Mead & Read\, Scorpio will introduce three new books that we think our customers might enjoy\, and we will provide tastes of matching meads and liqueurs*. \nHeld on the last Thursday of the month\, starting June 2023. Registration is essential – register here. \n(There is no charge for this event but we ask that you consider purchasing something on the evening.) \n  \n*Mead & liqueur tastings available to customers over 18 years old.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/mead-read-2/2023-08-31/
LOCATION:Colony Christchurch\, The Crossing\, 166 Cashel St\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Off-site
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | 'Signs of Life' by Amy Head
DESCRIPTION:Join us and Te Herenga Waka University Press to celebrate the launch of award-winning author Amy Head’s latest offering – Signs of Life\, set in the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquakes. This event is proudly part of WORD Festival 2023. \nAll welcome – arrive from 5.30pm for a 6pm start. Please RSVP to rsvp@scorpiobooks.co.nz for catering purposes. \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nChristchurch\, post quakes\, and the earth is still settling. Containers line the damaged streets\, whose inhabitants waver – like their city – suspended between disaster and recovery. Tony\, very much alive\, is declared dead\, Gerald misreads one too many situations in his community patrol\, and boomer Carla tries online dating. At the epicentre of these taut\, magnetic stories is twenty-something Flick who\, just as she is finding her feet again\, faces another violent disruption – this time in human form – while her mostly-ex gets set to marry. \nKeenly observed and deftly humorous\, Signs of Life turns on the smallest of details to tell the biggest of stories: how we carry on. \n  \n‘Through the rubble of Amy Head’s pungent\, post-quake Christchurch flickers Flick\, a young woman trying to make sense of a terrible event and its endless aftermath. In her pages it all comes back\, uneasily\, but also with brief moments of beauty\, little eruptions of comedy. Life wins out\, in the end\, in this bright and original piece of discontinuous fiction – a fine tribute to everyone who survived\, to those who didn’t\, and to the form it’s written in.’ —Patrick Evans \n‘From comical to terrifying\, mundane to profound\, these stories traverse the intersecting lives of a multigenerational cast in surprising and original ways. Amy Head has a masterful approach.’ —Airini Beautrais
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-signs-of-life-by-amy-head/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | 'The Waters' by Carl Nixon
DESCRIPTION:Join us and Penguin NZ to celebrate the launch of The Waters\, by Carl Nixon\, launched by Morrin Rout. All welcome – arrive from 5.30pm for a 6pm start. Please RSVP to rsvp@scorpiobooks.co.nz for catering purposes. \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nOne family. Forty years. \nThe Waters kids ― practical\, athletic Mark; the physically beautiful dreamer Davey; and the baby of the family\, Samantha ― have had to face more than their fair share of challenges. 1979 was the year their father sold up the farm and invested all the family’s money in a doomed property development next to the ocean in Christchurch. Is that when ‘everything started going wrong’\, as Mark believes? \nWill their bond survive the passage of time or will the three siblings succumb to their parents’ legacy of failure? Can the past be overcome . . . and forgiven? \nA novel in 21 stories by acclaimed novelist and playwright Carl Nixon.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-the-waters-by-carl-nixon/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230809T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230809T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | 'The Seasonwife' by Saige England
DESCRIPTION:Join us and Bateman Books to celebrate the launch of The Seasonwife\, the debut novel from local author Saige England. All welcome – arrive from 5.30pm for a 6pm start. Please RSVP to rsvp@scorpiobooks.co.nz for catering purposes. \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nIt’s 1832 on an isolated coast on the South Island of New Zealand. A lush and tranquil bay is facing a season of upheaval. White men are whaling\, sealing\, whoring and warring. Creatures are culled\, woods are felled. But something more sinister is afoot. There is much demand amongst the English gentry for the rich resources and curiosities to be found in this farthest flung corner of the colonies. But\, in order to procure these ‘treasures’\, blood will need to be shed. \nBridie Murphy is an immigrant Irish orphan with a sharp tongue and an unbreakable spirit who has been abducted from her home in Sydney. She is forced into a relationship with Robbie Fitch\, the roguish captain of a whaling ship. \nLow-born\, perceptive and fiercely protective of her whānau\, Manaia O Piripiri has a special role accorded her by the rangatira to protect the village. It also sets her on a dangerous collision course with Robbie and his men. \nSlipping unwillingly into the fray is Quentin Cuthbert\, a disillusioned missionary with a past. While Bridie and Manaia forge a precarious and critical alliance\, the missionary must decide once and for all where he stands. \nThe Seasonwife considers the barbaric intrusion of a new world into the lives of Māori as women navigate dangerous currents towards survival. A lyrical\, deeply moving and highly visual novel that will penetrate deep into your bones.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-the-seasonwife-by-saige-england/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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SUMMARY:Scorpio Books Club | August | 'The Sun Walks Down' by Fiona McFarlane
DESCRIPTION: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. \nOn the first Tuesday of each month\, we’ll discuss our previous Book of the Month – so in August\, we’ll be talking about our July book\, The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane. \nWhen: Tuesday 1st August\, 6pm\nWhere: Scorpio Books\nTickets: $10 per person per month \n  \nYour ticket includes: \n\nAn email with a selection of reviews and questions a few days prior to get the ideas flowing. (Not required reading – just there if you’re keen.)\nDrinks\, nibbles and facilitated discussion on the night\, plus Bel and Ray’s other recommended reads for the month.\nAfter hours browsing time\, with 10% off all full-priced purchases on the night.\nA follow up email that includes all books mentioned on the night (so you can add them to your TBR pile!)\n\nTickets are limited and are available here. \n  \nIf you have any questions about the Scorpio Books Club\, please email rsvp@scorpiobooks.co.nz. \n* Cancellation policy: tickets can be cancelled until 9am on the day by emailing rsvp@scorpiobooks.co.nz. The ticket price cannot be refunded\, but transferred to the next Book Club session\, or to store credit that will never expire.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/scorpio-books-club-august-the-sun-walks-down-by-fiona-mcfarlane/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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SUMMARY:Mead & Read
DESCRIPTION:Colony is proud to be partnering with Scorpio Books to bring together two of our favourite things – a great mead with a great book! \nEach month at Mead & Read\, Scorpio will introduce three new books that we think our customers might enjoy\, and we will provide tastes of matching meads and liqueurs*. \nHeld on the last Thursday of the month\, starting June 2023. Registration is essential – register here. \n(There is no charge for this event but we ask that you consider purchasing something on the evening.) \n  \n*Mead & liqueur tastings available to customers over 18 years old.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/mead-read-2/2023-07-27/
LOCATION:Colony Christchurch\, The Crossing\, 166 Cashel St\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Off-site
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230726T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230726T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | 'Double Jeopardy' by Stef Harris
DESCRIPTION:Join us and Quentin Wilson Publishing for the Ōtautahi launch of this thrilling new crime novel\, launched by Edmund Bohan. All welcome – arrive from 5.30pm for a 6pm start. Please RSVP to rsvp@scorpiobooks.co.nz for catering purposes. \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nFrank Winter is an ex-cop\, a former hard-boiled Boston detective with a soft centre living in curmudgeonly retirement with his beloved dog\, Dolly. But when his daughter’s killer is released on parole\, Frank’s back\, a man on a mission\, and it’s yesterday once more. But first\, Frank’s got a bunch of favours to call in. Throw in a rookie minder cop who’s great with computers but scared of guns\, and help from the desirable Destiny\, whose past is even murkier than Frank’s… hell\, you just know things will go according to plan. Strong characters\, well-paced action\, dark humour and cracking dialogue make Double Jeopardy an old-school crime novel with a surprisingly modern twist. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \nStef Harris is an award-winning author and film-maker\, and is also a frontline police officer\, having served for over 30 years in Wellington\, Christchurch and Nelson. Double Jeopardy is his third novel.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-double-jeopardy-by-stef-harris/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230719T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230719T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | 'Here Upon the Tide' by Blair McMillan
DESCRIPTION:Join us and Bateman Books to celebrate the launch of Here Upon the Tide\, the debut novel for younger readers from local author Blair McMillan. All welcome – arrive from 5.30pm for a 6pm start. Please RSVP to rsvp@scorpiobooks.co.nz for catering purposes. \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nWhen Amir’s city in Syria is bombed as civil war erupts\, his father makes a fateful decision. Amir soon finds himself on a perilous journey by land and sea\, with little hope of reaching his destination. Milly is still reeling from the aftermath of earthquakes in her home city of Christchurch. Her only reprieve is the sea\, surfing in Sumner and paddleboarding to her refuge at Boulder Bay. Out on the water one morning she sees something that forces her to risk her life for a complete stranger. \nHere Upon the Tide is a stunning debut novel about two grieving teenagers who find new ways to be happy in the most unlikely of places.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-here-upon-the-tide-by-blair-mcmillan/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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SUMMARY:Mead & Read
DESCRIPTION:Colony is proud to be partnering with Scorpio Books to bring together two of our favourite things – a great mead with a great book! \nEach month at Mead & Read\, Scorpio will introduce three new books that we think our customers might enjoy\, and we will provide tastes of matching meads and liqueurs*. \nHeld on the last Thursday of the month\, starting June 2023. Registration is essential – register here. \n(There is no charge for this event but we ask that you consider purchasing something on the evening.) \n  \n*Mead & liqueur tastings available to customers over 18 years old.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/mead-read/
LOCATION:Colony Christchurch\, The Crossing\, 166 Cashel St\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Off-site
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230622T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230622T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | 'Shifting Foundations: Post-quake Architecture of Ōtautahi Christchurch'
DESCRIPTION:Join us and Freerange Press for the launch of Shifting Foundations\, a beautiful book exploring the architecture of post-quake Ōtautahi Christchurch. All welcome – arrive from 5.30pm for a 6pm start. Please RSVP to rsvp@scorpiobooks.co.nz for catering purposes. \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nFollowing the 2010-11 earthquakes and their aftermath\, Christchurch’s built fabric was irrevocably changed and the history of its architecture disrupted. Familiar landmarks vanished\, whole swathes of the city were red-zoned\, heritage buildings were demolished and a sense of dislocation prevailed. The ongoing rebuild of the city was to follow. \nThis book documents the architecture that arose from this time – from schools\, libraries and commercial buildings to public realm design. With eight essays narrating the post-quake progression from immediate response through to the subsequent architectural contributions\, and 80 concise catalogue entries sharing the story of select buildings and their role in the rebuild\, we explore what our architecture can tell us about ourselves and the place we live in. Richly illustrated throughout\, Shifting Foundations captures the journey towards a more meaningful melding of people and place\, enabled by architecture. \nForeword Bernadette Muir\, and featuring essays by Matthew Webby\, Dr Jessica Halliday\, Charlotte Hoare\, Debbie Tikao & Huia Reriti\, Yuqi Kong\, Jasper van der Lingen\, Daniel Crooks\, Colin Corsbie & Fritha Powell. \nWith thanks to Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects\, whose support enabled the making of this book.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-shifting-foundations-post-quake-architecture-of-otautahi-christchurch/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230615T173000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | 'Sure to Rise: The Edmonds story' by Peter Alsop\, Kate Parsonson and Richard Wolfe
DESCRIPTION:Canterbury University Press and Scorpio Books warmly invite you to the launch of Sure to Rise: The Edmonds Story by Peter Alsop\, Kate Parsonson and Richard Wolfe. All welcome – arrive from 5.30pm for a 6pm start. Please RSVP to rsvp@scorpiobooks.co.nz for catering purposes. \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nTake a teaspoon of baking powder\, fold in an art deco building and legacy gardens\, add an iconic brand\, a dash of philanthropy\, and you’ve got a rich slice of social and culinary history. Sure to Rise: The Edmonds Story tells of the famous baking powder\, patents\, trademarks\, the hugely popular cookbook\, renowned factory and gardens\, the family behind the brand\, and the landmarks which founder Thomas Edmonds gifted to Christchurch. Illustrated with more than 500 images\, the Edmonds family story is told alongside the evolution of one of New Zealand’s most distinctive and durable brands and its domestic trademark – the Sure to Rise logo.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-sure-to-rise-the-edmonds-story-by-peter-alsop-kate-parsonson-and-richard-wolfe/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230607T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230607T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | 'Fungi of Aotearoa' by Liv Sisson
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of Fungi of Aotearoa: A Curious Forager’s Guide by local writer and foraging enthusiast Liv Sisson. All welcome – arrive from 5.30pm for a 6pm start. Please RSVP to rsvp@scorpiobooks.co.nz for catering purposes. \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nEnter and explore the fascinating world of fungi. \nIn this practical and up-to-date guide\, forager and fungus enthusiast Liv Sisson shares her top tips and takes the reader on a journey to discover the unique and diverse fungi Aotearoa has to offer. \nDiscover how to identify the best edible varieties\, and how to cook with them\, how these incredible organisms have shaped the world as we know it\, and the role they are playing in modern medical and environmental research. \nFeaturing stunning full-colour photographs\, fun facts and current descriptions of over 130 species (including our brilliant blue national fungus\, werewere kokako)\, Fungi of Aotearoa is packed full of information and advice that will delight armchair enthusiasts\, backcountry explorers and budding experts alike.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-fungi-of-aotearoa-by-liv-sisson/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230601T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230601T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | 'Glimpse' by Jane Higgins
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of Glimpse by award-winning young adult author Jane Higgins. All welcome – arrive from 5.30pm for a 6pm start. Please RSVP to rsvp@scorpiobooks.co.nz for catering purposes. \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nThe city authorities have abandoned the D-Zone as damaged beyond repair. It’s a no-go area where ongoing earthquakes threaten to destroy what’s left. But Jonah and Bas and everyone else trying to survive in the devastation there can’t leave—they’re ‘illegals’\, without citizenship\, without rights. \nJonah can see the quakes—before the ground shudders and grinds\, before the buildings fall. Glimpsing is a rare ability and a great survival asset. It has attracted the attention of the entertainment company GlimpseCorp and the cult movement People for a New Nation. Both are desperate to control and cash in on this remarkable power. \nWhen Bas joins People for a New Nation and disappears\, Jonah knows his friend is in great danger. And he knows that GlimpseCorp\, with its reality TV program\, offers a way to save him—and a way to bring new hope to the people of the D-Zone. \nBut Jonah’s plan puts everything\, including his own life\, at risk. \nGlimpse is a compelling adventure\, an intriguing story of conflict\, power\, manipulation\, love and friendship\, set in richly imagined world that is in many ways very much like our own.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-glimpse-by-jane-higgins/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230504T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230504T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | 'New Dawning' by A.M. Dixon
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of The Edge of Light: New Dawning by award-winning local writer Melanie Dixon. This dystopia for young adults is the first in an exciting new trilogy published by One Tree House. All welcome – arrive from 5.30pm for a 6pm start. Please RSVP to rsvp@scorpiobooks.co.nz for catering purposes. \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nBook one in a startling new trilogy. \nWe meet Merel\, a girl living on a futuristic island in the middle of a sea. Many years have past since the community survived the floods and the severe heat that has forced their forbears to shadow their world. They live in twilight and their year is punctuated by traditions that address the need to restrict their population – drastic traditions that are called the truth. We come to realise this is set in a future world that might be New Zealand.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-new-dawning-by-a-m-dixon/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230427T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20230427T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | 'The Deck' by Fiona Farrell
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of Fiona Farrell’s latest offering\, The Deck – a novel about telling stories in a time of change. All welcome – arrive from 5.30pm for a 6pm start. Please RSVP to rsvp@scorpiobooks.co.nz for catering purposes. \n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nA little way off in the future\, during a time of plague and profound social collapse\, a group of friends escapes to a house in the country where they entertain themselves by playing music\, eating\, drinking and telling stories about their lives. There are tales of thieves and pirates\, deaths and a surprise birth\, a freak wave and many other stories of misadventure resulting in unexpected felicity. \nThe Deck borrows the motifs of Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th-century masterpiece\, The Decameron\, in which another small group gathered to avoid contagion and passed the time telling stories. But what is the role of fiction\, this novel asks\, as civilisation falters?
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-the-deck-by-fiona-farrell/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | BITER by Claudia Jardine
DESCRIPTION:Join us along with Auckland University Press to celebrate the Christchurch launch of BITER by Claudia Jardine. Featuring Claudia Jardine and special guests! Arrive from 5:30 for a 6pm start.\n\n\nRefreshments provided – please RSVP to rsvp@scorpiobooks.co.nz for catering purposes.\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK:\n\nFilled with hickeys\, puttanesca and tart wit\, BITER is an apt title for Claudia Jardine’s debut collection of verse. Fresh translations of erotic Greek epigrams are threaded through boozy sonnets\, ecstatic odes and startlingly vulnerable love poems. Jardine weaves ancient and modern together into a rich\, glitzy\, idiosyncratic tapestry – and in doing so crafts a poetic voice that is at once classical and frisky.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-biter-by-claudia-jardine/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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SUMMARY:Scorpio Books Club
DESCRIPTION:**THIS EVENT IS NOW BOOKED OUT. \nTO REGISTER YOUR INTEREST ON THE WAIT LIST\, PLEASE EMAIL RSVP@SCORPIOBOOKS.CO.NZ** \n  \nAlways 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. \nOn the first Tuesday of each month\, we’ll discuss our previous Book of the Month – so in April\, we’ll be talking about our March book\, ‘Birnam Wood’ by Eleanor Catton. \nWhen: Tuesday 4th April\, 6pm\nWhere: Scorpio Books\nTickets: $10 per person per month \nYour ticket includes: \n\nAn email with a selection of reviews and questions a few days prior to get the ideas flowing. (Not required reading – just there if you’re keen.)\nDrinks\, nibbles and facilitated discussion on the night\, plus Bel and Ray’s other recommended reads for the month.\nAfter hours browsing time\, with 10% off all full-priced purchases on the night.\nAn email in the days following including all books mentioned on the night.\n\nIf you have any questions about the Scorpio Books Club\, please email rsvp@scorpiobooks.co.nz. \n* Cancellation policy: tickets can be cancelled until 9am on the day by emailing rsvp@scorpiobooks.co.nz. The ticket price cannot be refunded\, but transferred to store credit that will never expire.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/scorpio-books-club/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | Ōtautahi Christchurch Architecture: A Walking Guide
DESCRIPTION:Massey University Press and Scorpio Books warmly invite you to join us for the launch of Ōtautahi Christchurch Architecture: A Walking Guide (Revised Edition 2023) by John Walsh and Patrick Reynolds. \nFrom 5.30pm at Scorpio Books\, with speeches beginning at 6pm. Refreshments provided – please RSVP to rsvp@scorpiobooks.co.nz for catering purposes.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-otautahi-christchurch-architecture-a-walking-guide/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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