***Unfortunately, this event is now fully booked. Please see our Events page for other activities happening at Telling Tales during Kidsfest!*** Join us for a magical morning with Melanie Poppins! Melanie will be at Telling Tales for a morning of magic and facepainting on Tuesday 1st July. Magic Show starts 10am, followed by facepainting 10.30am […]
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 […]
Scorpio Books and Te Herenga Waka University Press warmly welcome you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of Sick Power Trip by local poet Erik Kennedy. These are poems that tell us: the world is unwell, and sometimes writers are, too. Kennedy scrutinises the broken social contract and the dangerous actors who seem determined to dominate us. He […]
Ray Shipley interviews Heather McQuillan about her latest work Truth Needs No Colour. Join us for a rich evening of ideas and conversation. The event has now been moved to: Tuesday 5 August. 5.30-6.30pm Tautoru / TSB Space, Hapori | Community, Level 1, Tūranga
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 Persians by Sanam Mahloudji. What does membership to our book club entail? We meet on the first Tuesday of the […]
Scorpio Books and Totara Press warmly invite you to join us for an author talk. An Uncommon Land: From an Ancestral Past of Enclosure Towards a Regenerative Future by Catherine Knight is out now. The author will be in-store for one night only to discuss her latest publication with Dr Paul Dalziel of Wellbeing Economy Alliance […]
Come and join us for the launch of Aotearoa Light by Peter Laurenson, published by Bateman Books. Hosted by New Zealand Alpine Club Canterbury Section at The Cashmere Club, 50 Colombo Street. ABOUT THE BOOK Light, for landscape photographers, is the element that makes all the difference. Dawn and dusk are known as the ‘magic hours’ for […]
Scorpio Books, Allen & Unwin and WORD Christchurch warmly welcome you to the launch of The Case of the Angry Ghost: Violet and the Velvets Book 2 by local author Rachael King. All welcome, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP. There will be books for sale on the night for $18.99. ABOUT THE BOOK Violet […]
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 Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino. What does membership to our book club entail? We meet on the first Tuesday of the month to […]
Bridget Williams Books invites you to a BWB Talk in Christchurch with Shaun Hendy in conversation with Rebecca Macfie, discussing his new book, The Covid Response! Thursday 4 September Scorpio Books, 120 Hereford Street, Christchurch 8011 Doors open from 5.30pm, event starts 6pm Nau mai, haere mai. Public event, no RVSP needed. Contact info@bwb.co.nz for more information. […]
Our book-inspired treasure hunt is on again these holidays! Pick up an entry form at the front counter, find the letters hidden around the shop, and unscramble the name of a famous book character to be in to win a book bundle. Happening every day of the school holidays, September 20th - October 5th! PLUS […]