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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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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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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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