Name: Scorpio Books Club: Beautyland
Start: 2025-09-02T18:00:00+12:00
End: 2025-09-02T19:30:00+12:00
Location: Scorpio Books

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June 2025
Book Party | Ghosts On Every Corner by Ghostcat, Reuben Woods and Dave Richards

Featured Fri 27th June 2025 | 5:30 pm

Scorpio Books 120 Hereford Street, Christchurch, New Zealand

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 […]

Free
Kidsfest Activities at Telling Tales

Sat 28th June 2025 | 10:00 am-Sun 13th July 2025 | 5:00 pm

Telling Tales 101-111 Cashel Street, Christchurch, New Zealand

Come visit Telling Tales during Kidsfest! We are hosting lots of fun events and activities for kids of all ages, including… The Great Telling Tales Treasure Hunt – Find the letters hidden around the shop and unscramble them into the name of a famous book character! Entry Forms can be found at the counter throughout […]
July 2025
Melanie Poppins at Telling Tales

Tue 1st July 2025 | 10:00 am

Telling Tales 101-111 Cashel Street, Christchurch, New Zealand

***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 […]
Scorpio Books Club

Tue 1st July 2025 | 6:00 pm Scorpio Books Club

Scorpio Books 120 Hereford Street, Christchurch, New Zealand

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 […]

$10
Book Launch | Touch Screen by Philip Armstrong

Featured Thu 3rd July 2025 | 5:30 pm

Scorpio Books 120 Hereford Street, Christchurch, New Zealand

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 […]

Free
Book Launch | Sick Power Trip by Erik Kennedy

Featured Thu 10th July 2025 | 5:30 pm

Scorpio Books 120 Hereford Street, Christchurch, New Zealand

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 […]

Free
August 2025
Author Talk | Heather McQuillan

Tue 5th August 2025 | 5:30 pm

Tūranga 60 Cathedral Square, Christchurch

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

Free
Scorpio Books Club

Tue 5th August 2025 | 6:00 pm Scorpio Books Club

Scorpio Books 120 Hereford Street, Christchurch, New Zealand

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 […]

$10
Author Talk | An Uncommon Land by Catherine Knight

Tue 12th August 2025 | 5:30 pm

Scorpio Books 120 Hereford Street, Christchurch, New Zealand

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 […]

Free
Book Launch | Aotearoa Light by Peter Laurenson

Thu 21st August 2025 | 7:30 pm

Cashmere Club 50 Colombo Street, Cashmere, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

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 […]

Free
Book Launch | Violet and the Velvets 2: The Case of the Angry Ghost by Rachael King

Featured Thu 28th August 2025 | 5:30 pm

Scorpio Books 120 Hereford Street, Christchurch, New Zealand

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 […]

Free
September 2025
Scorpio Books Club: Beautyland

Tue 2nd September 2025 | 6:00 pm Scorpio Books Club

Scorpio Books 120 Hereford Street, Christchurch, New Zealand

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 […]

$10

Plant to Plate: Delicious and Versatile Plant-Forward Recipes

Different Kind of Power: A memoir

June 2025

Book Party | Ghosts On Every Corner by Ghostcat, Reuben Woods and Dave Richards

Kidsfest Activities at Telling Tales

July 2025

Melanie Poppins at Telling Tales

Scorpio Books Club

Book Launch | Touch Screen by Philip Armstrong

Book Launch | Sick Power Trip by Erik Kennedy

August 2025

Author Talk | Heather McQuillan

Scorpio Books Club

Author Talk | An Uncommon Land by Catherine Knight

Book Launch | Aotearoa Light by Peter Laurenson

Book Launch | Violet and the Velvets 2: The Case of the Angry Ghost by Rachael King

September 2025

Scorpio Books Club: Beautyland