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SUMMARY:Author Talk | Lana Hart
DESCRIPTION:Nice People on Planes is a novel about finding connections that are more than skin deep in a busy and disconnected world. Join Morrin Rout and Lana Hart in conversation and hear about Lana’s sharp and engaging debut work. \nAuthor talk: Lana Hart\nWednesday 4 February\, 6-7pm\nTautoru / TSB Space\, Hapori | Community\, Level 1\, Tūranga \nFree\, get tickets here \nLana Hart weaves cultural narratives with acuity\, crafting a serpentine\, sensitive\, and surprising journey for Cora who holds the story’s heart. I was captivated by Cora’s complex character\, while her search for meaning highlights the profound importance of connection to something larger than oneself. \n– Dr Amanda Booth\, Melbourne
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/author-talk-lana-hart/
LOCATION:Tūranga\, 60 Cathedral Square\, Christchurch
CATEGORIES:Off-site
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SUMMARY:Scorpio Books Club
DESCRIPTION:Always wanted to join a book club? Come join ours! \nShare your thoughts and hear what others made of our Book of the Month at the Scorpio Books Club. \nThis month\, we will be discussing: Hiding Places by Lynley Edmeades. \nWhat does membership to our book club entail?\nWe meet on the first Tuesday of the month to discuss last month’s Book of the Month. \nA ticket to a Scorpio Books Club meeting costs $10 each month\, paid on the night. \nScorpio Books will provide drinks\, nibbles and a cosy place to chat. Staff members will facilitate the discussion and present recommended reads for those hungry for more. After our discussion\, there will be time to browse and chat\, and members will receive 10% off all full-price purchases on the night. \nIf you would like to come prepared\, we send out an email to those who have registered in advance with reviews and some questions to get the conversation flowing. This is not required reading\, it’s just there if you are keen or would like more context for the book. A round-up list of all the books mentioned on the night will be emailed to the Books Club mailing list. \nClick here to register for Scorpio Books Club.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/scorpio-books-club-3/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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SUMMARY:Meet & Greet | Dr Hinemoa Elder
DESCRIPTION:Come and meet bestselling author Dr Hinemoa Elder as she introduces Ara: A Māori Guidebook of the Mind\, her latest book. This special event is the perfect opportunity to say hello and get your books signed. \nSaturday 13th December\, 10AM\nScorpio Books | 120 Hereford Street\nFor more information\, please contact enquiry@scorpiobooks.co.nz \nDr Hinemoa Elder will also be appearing on Friday 12th December at UBS Canterbury\, University Drive\, Ilam for an author talk. 6PM for 6.30PM start. Contact ubs@ubscan.co.nz  for more information\, or see the Penguin New Zealand website for more tour dates.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/meet-greet-dr-hinemoa-elder/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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SUMMARY:Book Launch : Beneath Our Feet by Jack Hartley
DESCRIPTION:Scholastic New Zealand invites you to join us at Tūranga to celebrate the launch of Beneath Our Feet\, by YA author Jack Hartley\, on Wednesday December 3rd at 6pm. \nJack’s second YA novel is set in the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquake. As the city Alfie calls home begins to tremble and in the blink of an eye comes crashing down around him\, the heart transplant he desperately needs becomes available. A heart that will change everything\, and not just for him. \nFor Dani\, a chance meeting with Alfie outside the hospital provides a welcome distraction from the fate that lies ahead for her. Together they find something impossible within the sealed-off cordon of the city’s red zone – a world beyond anything they could ever have imagined. A world that might just give them what they need most: TIME. \n  \nAbout the Author: \nJack Hartley was born and grew up in Ōtautahi. His first novel\, All the Other Days\, was published in 2018. \n 
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-beneath-our-feet-by-jack-hartley/
LOCATION:Tūranga\, 60 Cathedral Square\, Christchurch
CATEGORIES:Off-site
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SUMMARY:Scorpio Books Club
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. \nThis month\, we will be discussing: The Last Living Cannibal by Airana Ngarewa. \nWhat does membership to our book club entail?\nWe meet on the first Tuesday of the month to discuss last month’s Book of the Month. A ticket to a Scorpio Books Club meeting costs $10 each month\, paid on the night. Scorpio Books will provide drinks\, nibbles and a cosy place to chat. Staff members will lead the discussion and present recommended reads for those hungry for more. After our discussion\, there will be time to browse and chat\, and members will receive 10% off all full-price purchases on the night. \nIf you would like to come prepared\, we send out an email to those who have registered in advance with reviews and some questions to get the conversation flowing. This is not required reading\, it’s just there if you are keen or would like more context for the book. A list of all the books mentioned on the night will be emailed to the Books Club mailing list the next day. \nClick here to register for Scorpio Books Club.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/scorpio-books-club-2-10/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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SUMMARY:Author Talk | Lynley Edmeades with Kiran Dass
DESCRIPTION:Scorpio Books and Otago University Press warmly welcome you to an author talk featuring Lynley Edmeades in conversation with Kiran Dass. \nLynley Edmeades is the author of Hiding Places\, a compelling and beautifully written meditation on early motherhood and creativity published in September 2025. Told through a series of fragments that range from raw and troubled to delightful and hilarious\, this remarkable book responds to the unexpected shocks and discoveries of becoming a mother\, drawing on excerpts from family letters and secretive medical records\, and advice contained in Truby King’s 1913 tract\, Feeding and Care of Baby. This author talk will include discussion on this wonderful and strange book\, already a favourite with the Scorpio Books staff. \nAll welcome\, this is a free event. Refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP. \nAbout the speakers\nLynley Edmeades has an MA in Creative Writing from Queen’s University Belfast and a PhD in avant-garde literature from the University of Otago. Her previous books include As the Verb Tenses (OUP\, 2016)\, Listening In (OUP\, 2019) and Bordering on Miraculous\, a collaboration with artist Saskia Leek (Massey University Press\, 2022). She is the current editor of Landfall Tauraka and teaches English and creative writing at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka. \nKiran Dass is a critic\, writer and Programme Director at WORD Christchurch and has written about books\, music and culture for a variety of publications including NZ Herald\, NZ Listener\, Guardian\, The Wire\, North & South\, Metro\, The Spinoff\, RNZ\, Sunday magazine\, Sunday Star-Times and Vice. In 2020 she was awarded a Michael King Writers Centre Residency\, and in 2023 was the Verb Wellington Writer in Residence at Katherine Mansfield House & Garden. Dass was a judge for the 2024 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards and was convening judge for the same prize in 2021. She reviews books regularly on RNZ’s Nine to Noon.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/author-talk-lynley-edmeades-with-kiran-dass/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | How to Paint a Nude by Sam Mahon
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the launch of How to Paint a Nude by Sam Mahon. Sam Mahon needs no introduction – Christchurch artist\, activist\, conservationist\, writer\, subversive who\, using cow dung\, sculpted Hon Nick Smith nude and squatting over a glass of water. This beautifully written book which he calls ‘a fiction’\, is set within the real world of Canterbury art in the year of the earthquake\, with real Canterbury people. It centres around a Belarus refugee who fled his country to find freedom. Sam and Gregor meet weekly to discuss art’s purpose\, and critique Lukashenka from a distance\, but there is a pervading enemy in the book which can best be described in the words of architect Peter Beaven\, and by the end\, Gregor departs\, disillusioned. \nJoin us at Lumière Cinema on Tuesday 25th November from 5.30pm to hear from Sam and friends about his latest work. \nFree event\, all welcome. \nBooks for sale on the night for $40.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-how-to-paint-a-nude-by-sam-mahon/
LOCATION:Lumière Cinemas\, 26 Rolleston Avenue\, Christchurch Central City\, Christchurch\, Canterbury\, 8013\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Off-site
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SUMMARY:Author Talk | Ben Pentreath
DESCRIPTION:VENUE UPDATE 28/10/25: now to be held at Tūranga\, 60 Cathedral Square\, Christchurch Central City in the TSB Space \nJoin us for an inspiring evening with author Ben Pentreath\, one of the foremost designers of new traditional buildings and country houses in the world. Ben will be joined by Vincent Holloway\, and together they will present a visual introduction to Ben’s work both here in Christchurch\, and Australia\, as well as some of his many projects in the UK and Europe. There will be an opportunity for questions from the audience. \nAll welcome\, free event. \nAbout the author\nBen Pentreath is a London-based architectural and interior designer\, educator\, and author. He received the 2023 Richard H. Driehaus Prize for excellence in the field of classical architecture. \nBen Pentreath’s book English Decoration\, published in 2011\, established his growing reputation as an author and he has been a regular contributor to the Financial Times and other journals. A sequel interiors book\, English Houses\, was published in 2016. His new book\, An English Vision\, a monograph of the work of the practice\, was published by Rizzoli New York in 2024 and quickly became one of the best-selling interiors and architecture books of the year. \nAbout the book\nAn English Vision is the first of Pentreath’s books to present his own output in its entirety—from his personal residences in Dorset\, London\, and Scotland that brought him international fame to many old and new houses that he has designed and some of the larger\, town-scaled projects that make his practice unique in the world of traditional design. Although the results range from his colourful and romantic versions of the English country cottage to traditional splendour\, there are underlying ideas that inform the breadth of his output—a sense of scale\, proportion\, craft\, detail\, sustainability\, and appropriateness—that have a universal relevance today. \nPentreath has authored as well as taken all photographs in this book\, which looks at some thirty case studies\, large and small\, including many previously unpublished works. The designs encompass an understanding of materials\, texture\, classical and vernacular detail\, color\, richness\, and simplicity by turn—as exemplified in both sumptuous and honest interiors\, grand country houses\, and pragmatically organized town plans. While being steeped in a learned classicism\, Pentreath’s work is celebrated by young and old around the world\, as exemplified by his coverage in major media outlets. \n 
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/author-talk-ben-pentreath/
LOCATION:Tūranga\, 60 Cathedral Square\, Christchurch
CATEGORIES:Off-site
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SUMMARY:Author Talk | Rangatiratanga and Gentlemanship
DESCRIPTION:Scorpio Books and Grant Hodgson invite you to a special lunchtime author talk on Rangatiratanga and Gentlemanship: A conversation in 1825. Morrin Rout\, Associate Professor Michael Grimshaw and the author will be discussing Hodgson’s book\, an examination of a rare piece of evidence illustrating the relationship between rangatira and missionaries at a crucial time in 1825. You are welcome to bring your own lunch! \n“From the great sedimentary layers of historical documents on New Zealand’s colonisation\, Hodgson has extracted a nugget that reveals so much about the nature of interactions between Māori and Pākehā in the earliest stages of settlement. With great insight\, this short work illuminates the significance of this period of contact.” Professor Paul Moon ONZM\, historian.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/author-talk-rangatiratanga-and-gentlemanship/
LOCATION:Maker Workshop\, The Arts Centre\, 3 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, Canterbury\, 8011\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Off-site
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SUMMARY:Author Talk | Peter Dowling and Takerei Norton
DESCRIPTION:Scorpio Books warmly welcomes you to a special author talk with Peter Dowling and Takerei Norton. \nPeter Dowling is the publisher of Oratia Books\, which he launched in 2009 after being publishing manager of Reed Publishing (NZ) and chief editor of Kozo System (Tokyo). Over many year he has updated and extended A.W. Reed’s research into place names in books including The Reed Dictionary of New Zealand Place Names (2002)\, Place Names of New Zealand (2010) and Māori Place Names (2017). \nTakerei Norton (Ngāi Tahu) is co-manager of the Ngāi Tahu Archive. His field of interest is the collation\, storage and use of traditional Māori knowledge. Since 2005 Takerei has managed Kā Huru Manu\, the Ngāi Tahu Cultural Mapping Project. He also managed the development of Kareao\, the online archive database that provides unprecedented access to the Ngāi Tahu Archive. \nThis author talk will feature discussion on Peter’s latest book New Zealand Place Names: Common\, Contested and Curious Names from Aotearoa to Zalatown and Takerei’s work on Kā Huru Manu. \nAll welcome\, refreshments provided. Free event. Please send in your RSVP.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/author-talk-peter-dowling-and-takerei-norton/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | Giving Birth to My Father by Tusiata Avia
DESCRIPTION:Join us to launch a new book of poetry by the incredible Tusiata Avia.\n\n Saturday 15 November\, 5pm Space Academy: 371 St Asaph Street\, Christchurch Books will be for sale with thanks to Scorpio Books Kai and refreshments provided\nAbout the book\nGiving Birth to My Father is about learning to live with a loss that seems simply too heavy to bear. First\, Tusiata Avia tells the imagined story – the one of how things should go – followed by the story of what really happens. As her father travels through his last days and into the arms of his tupu’aga\, transformed\, the family gathers around him with their love and raw need\, and their suffering turns to storm clouds.\n\nFor Avia\, his death is a beginning. Parent and child have switched places as the river carries them downstream\, and she sees her father with new eyes. But this is also a time of not knowing to whom she belongs and where she will be welcome now.\n\nThis is an extraordinarily rich poetic work about grief and renewal that will rearrange its readers. Giving Birth to My Father takes in a world of family and memory\, including a sequence of poems about a much-loved brother as he faces a life-threatening injury. It is a book about ways of holding one another even after we are gone.\n\nAbout the author\nTusiata Avia is the award-winning author of Wild Dogs Under My Skirt (2004; also staged internationally)\, Bloodclot (2009)\, Fale Aitu | Spirit House (2016)\, The Savage Coloniser Book (2020; winner of the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry and also staged nationally) and Big Fat Brown Bitch (2023). Tusiata has held the Fulbright Pacific Writers Fellowship at the University of Hawai‘i in 2005 and the Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence at University of Canterbury in 2010. She was the 2013 recipient of the Janet Frame Literary Trust Award\, and in 2020 was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to poetry and the arts. In 2023 she was given a Distinguished Alumni Award at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington and a Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement.\n\n\nCover art: Pati Solomona Tyrell
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-giving-birth-to-my-father-by-tusiata-avia/
LOCATION:Space Academy\, 371 Saint Asaph Street\, Christchurch\, Canterbury\, 8011\, New Zealand
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SUMMARY:Pub Choir | Average At Best Tour
DESCRIPTION:Do you have the best singing voice in the world? Unlikely. But do you have the WORST singing voice in the world? EQUALLY UNLIKELY. Your voice is probably average (at best)\, and at Pub Choir: we think that’s great! \nNow in it’s 8th year\, Pub Choir is the easiest\, funniest\, largest music lesson in the world. Created and led by the human rubber band Astrid\, be snapped into shape and flicked by her quick humour as she teaches everybody how to make a BRAND NEW PIECE OF ART TOGETHER. \nGenerally\, you should prepare yourself to learn something new and to not be a dickhead in public. But what should you specifically prepare? Nothing. It’s not that kind of choir. There’ll be no auditions and no homework. Just bring your mouth and we’ll do the rest. \nSo come and bring your average-at-best self\, and your average-at-best friends\, and let’s try to worry less and feel better. Also worth mentioning\, Astrid wrote a book\, and it’s called Average At Best and signed copies will be available for pre-order purchase with Pub Choir tickets\, to be collected at the show. Vocal health depending\, Astrid plans to sit at the merch desk and sign these books after every show until her audience grows tired of her. \nScorpio Books are delighted to be the booksellers for this event. \nGet your tickets now!
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/pub-choir-average-at-best-tour/
LOCATION:Christchurch Town Hall\, 86 Kilmore Street\, Christchurch\, Canterbury\, 8013\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Off-site
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SUMMARY:Christmas Storytime with Chelsea Cresswell
DESCRIPTION:Come along for a morning storytime to celebrate the release of ‘Poppa’s Workshop’ by Chelsea Cresswell!\nOn Friday\, November 7th at 10am Chelsea will visit us to read her book and share colouring and activities afterwards.\n\n\n\nWith thanks to our friends at Little Moa Books and Hachette NZ.\n\n\n\nBookings are not required\, but we recommend arriving a few minutes early to find a comfy spot.\nWe kindly request that buggies be parked outside. We look forward to seeing you there!
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/christmas-storytime-with-chelsea-cresswell/
LOCATION:Telling Tales\, 101-111 Cashel Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Telling Tales
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SUMMARY:Author Talk | Harry Ricketts with Erik Kennedy
DESCRIPTION:Scorpio Books and Te Herenga Waka University Press warmly welcome you to an author talk featuring Harry Ricketts in conversation with Erik Kennedy. This author talk comes on the eve of publication day for Harry’s new poetry collection Bonfires on the Ice. Pre-order your copy today! \nAll welcome\, this is a free event. No RSVP required as this event is not catered. \nAbout the speakers\nHarry Ricketts is a poet and literary scholar and has published around 30 books. He has lived in Wellington\, Aotearoa New Zealand\, since 1981. Until his retirement in 2022\, he was a professor in the English Programme at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. His books include the internationally acclaimed The Unforgiving Minute: A Life of Rudyard Kipling (1999) and Strange Meetings: The Lives of the Poets of the Great War (2010). His recent books include the poetry collections Winter Eyes (2018) and Selected Poems (2021)\, and the memoir First Things (2024). With historian David Kynaston\, he is the co-author of the award-winning Richie Benaud’s Blue Suede Shoes: The Story of an Ashes Classic (Bloomsbury\, 2024). \nErik Kennedy is the author of the Ockham-shortlisted There’s No Place Like the Internet In Springtime (2018)\, Another Beautiful Day Indoors (2022)\, and Sick Power Trip (2025)\, launched at Scorpio Books earlier this year! Originally from New Jersey\, he lives in Ōtautahi Christchurch.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/author-talk-harry-ricketts-with-erik-kennedy/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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SUMMARY:Kid's Drawing Workshop with Hilary Jean Tapper
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an after-school drawing and illustration workshop! \nOn Wednesday\, November 5th at 4pm we will be joined by Hilary Jean Tapper\, Ōtautahi-based illustrator and lecturer in illustration. Come celebrate the release of her latest picture book\, Wrapping Things\, and learn tips\, tricks and techniques to enhance your drawing and creative endeavours. \nThis class is primarily for school age children\, but all ages are welcome to come along and participate. \nThis workshop is free but bookings are required\, as spaces may be limited. Please book your spot by emailing us at tellingtales@scorpiobooks.co.nz \n  \nAbout Hilary \nHilary Jean Tapper is an award-winning illustrator based in New Zealand. She creates picture books\, and works as a lecturer and researcher. Her awards include the ABIA Children’s Picture Book of the Year\, Storylines Noteable Award\, and Forevablility Book Award. \n 
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/kids-drawing-workshop-with-hilary-jean-tapper/
LOCATION:Telling Tales\, 101-111 Cashel Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Telling Tales
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20251104T180000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20251104T193000
DTSTAMP:20260418T080632
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SUMMARY:Scorpio Books Club
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. \nThis month\, we will be discussing: Endling by Maria Reva \nWhat does membership to our book club entail?\nWe meet on the first Tuesday of the month to discuss last month’s Book of the Month. A ticket to a Scorpio Books Club meeting costs $10 each month\, paid on the night. Scorpio Books will provide drinks\, nibbles and a cosy place to chat. Staff members will lead the discussion and present recommended reads for those hungry for more. After our discussion\, there will be time to browse and chat\, and members will receive 10% off all full-price purchases on the night. \nIf you would like to come prepared\, we send out an email to those who have registered in advance with reviews and some questions to get the conversation flowing. This is not required reading\, it’s just there if you are keen or would like more context for the book. A list of all the books mentioned on the night will be emailed to the Books Club mailing list the next day. \nClick here to register for Scorpio Books Club.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/scorpio-books-club-2-9/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20251031T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20251031T193000
DTSTAMP:20260418T080632
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | So Long; South America by Pat Barrett
DESCRIPTION:Scorpio Books warmly welcomes you to the launch of So Long; South America by local author Pat Barrett. A new book of real adventure in 1980’s South America\, reviewer Mark Leishman says of the book: “So Long; South America excels as both a tribute to one man’s adventurous life and a call to explore beyond familiar borders.” All welcome\, refreshments provided. \nFree event. Please send in your RSVP. \nPre-order your copy today! \n\nABOUT THE BOOK\nIn May 1982 three young kiwi travellers set out to explore South America on their own terms with no other knowledge of this wild and mysterious continent than that gleaned from the travel ‘bible’ of the day – The South American Handbook. \nUnbeknownst to them\, their adventure began in a time that has been lost to the annals of travel history; a world with no internet and no instant communication. \nRead more about the book here. \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nPat Barrett has been a regular contributor to NZ Wilderness magazine since 1993\, as well as The Christchurch Press (1985) \, Dominion Post\, Wellington\, On Holiday\, NZ Geographic\, Kiwi Parent and Signature.He also writes for NZ Hunter and photographs for several calendar and postcard publishers and district tourism councils. He has written five books\, produces a Scenic NZ Scripture quotes calendar each year\, entitled ‘Let there be Light”.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-so-long-south-america-by-pat-barrett/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20251030T180000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20251030T200000
DTSTAMP:20260418T080632
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | Hardship and Hope
DESCRIPTION:Hardship & Hope: How poverty is designed into Aotearoa New Zealand’s economy and institutions\, and why furious hope and collective resistance matters. \nJoin journalist Rebecca Macfie\, youth justice advocate Moana Cole and Christchurch Methodist Mission executive director Jill Hawkey in discussion about the systems holding people in hardship\, and insights from the front lines of community action. Facilitated by Leigh Cookson. \nScorpio Books are delighted to be the booksellers at this event.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-hardship-and-hope/
LOCATION:Aldersgate\, 309 Durham Street North\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Off-site
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20251025T140000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20251025T150000
DTSTAMP:20260418T080632
CREATED:20250825T210010Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | It's Been Six Weeks Since My Last Confession by Peta Mathias
DESCRIPTION:Scorpio Books and Peta Mathias warmly welcome you to a special book launch to celebrate Peta’s new book\, It’s Been Six Weeks Since My Last Confession: Essays on Life. \nThis weekend book launch takes place at 2pm on Saturday 25th October. Join us for a glass of wine and some crisps while Peta regales us with scurrilous stories about her friends\, family\, childhood and anyone else who has made the mistake of crossing her path. \nFree event. All welcome\, refreshments provided. \nPlease send in your RSVP. \nThere will be books for sale on the day for $38.00. \n\nABOUT THE BOOK\n‘Do we really have to have Persian dried rose petals\, Pete? I mean\, on a scale of one to ten\, how essential are they in the dish you’re cooking?’ asks brother Paul with his patient face on. I go blank. How important are rose petals? Is this a trick question? What kind of bullshit supermarket is this anyway? There are 37 million products here. How hard would it have been to throw a few packets of rose petals on the shelf? \nIn this\, her 19th book\, Peta Mathias regales her readers with indiscreet stories from her life – how to deal with anger and temps perdu\, why it’s not a sin to wear black underwear\, how eating sun-drenched food will keep you young and beautiful forever\, how to open your eyes with a knife and what happens when you go on holiday with five A-types. If Peta can survive her life while wearing designer clothes and red lipstick\, so can you. You don’t have to be a recovered Catholic to tell the truth. \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nPeta Mathias MNZM is a respected and prolific New Zealand chef\, author\, entertainer and broadcaster\, who writes about food and travel and hosts gastronomic tours in the South of France\, Puglia\, Basque Country and India.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-its-been-six-weeks-since-my-last-confession-by-peta-mathias/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20251024T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20251024T193000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | It's What He Would've Wanted by Nick Ascroft
DESCRIPTION:Scorpio Books and Te Herenga Waka University Press warmly welcome you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of new poetry collection It’s What He Would’ve Wanted by Nick Ascroft. This event will feature readings from the author\, as well as readings from supporting poets Erik Kennedy\, Stacey Teague\, Rebecca Hawkes and Ashleigh Young. All welcome\, refreshments provided. \nFree event. Please send in your RSVP. \nIt’s What He Would’ve Wanted is on sale now! \n\nABOUT THE BOOK\nWhat would he have wanted? As little fuss as possible. But\, reading between the lines: a little help. All the latest gossip and complaints. An arse that is not wrong. Opulence. One leap from the rope ladder. The final word. \nIt’s What He Would’ve Wanted is the sixth book of poetry from the author of the acclaimed The Stupefying (‘the very best book of poetry of 2022’ said Newsroom). In this hilarious and affecting new work\, Nick Ascroft writes of lost friends\, new frailties\, new braveries\, and being stuck in an organ pipe during a recital and not wanting to bother anyone about it. Yes\, there are poems of cycling into dead-end utility holes but also poems of trembling resolve and arriving at work as aged as the night sky after completing the morning school drop-off. This is the best collection yet by one of the most exciting and mercurial poets writing in Aotearoa today. \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nNick Ascroft is the author of five previous poetry collections with Te Herenga Waka University Press\, most recently The Stupefying (2022) and Moral Sloth (2019). Living in Thorndon\, he is a public servant and the president of Scrabble Wellington.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-its-what-he-wouldve-wanted-by-nick-ascroft/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20251017T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20251017T193000
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SUMMARY:Adventure Night | Double Book Launch with Vanessa Croft & Peter Ryan
DESCRIPTION:Scorpio Books and Bateman Books warmly welcome you to a special DOUBLE book launch and author talk! Join us to celebrate the publication of Where In All the World\, a new novel by Vanessa Croft\, and Riding the Echo Down\, a new essay collection by Peter Ryan. The theme of the night is\, adventure! There will be giveaways\, books for sale and lots of fun to be had. \nAll welcome\, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP. \n\nABOUT WHERE IN ALL THE WORLD BY VANESSSA CROFT\nHarriet Watson dreams of a life beyond the Canterbury plains of 1890s New Zealand. When a celebrated English explorer sets his sights on her\, she is swept into a grand romance and a far greater deception. Determined to make a name for himself\, Curtis De Courcey undertakes a perilous expedition across Africa\, returning a hero to claim Harriet as his bride. But as whispers of scandal and cruelty gather\, Harriet finds herself isolated\, controlled and increasingly aware that true happiness may lie far from the direction she was seeking. From the Rakaia hills to the drawing rooms of London\, through the wilds of East Africa and the brutal heart of the Congo Free State\, Where in All the World traces one woman’s journey through betrayal\, resilience and self-discovery. Faced with the violence of empire and the constrictions of Victorian marriage\, Harriet must summon extraordinary courage to reclaim her life — and her freedom. \nFor readers of The Signature of All Things and The Light Between Oceans\, this unforgettable debut is a story of endurance\, awakening and fierce reclamation of self. \n\nABOUT VANESSA CROFT\nVanessa Croft is an Aotearoa-based historical fiction writer with a passion for bringing history to life. Born in Australia\, her childhood was spent in Nigeria and Papua New Guinea as a civil engineer’s daughter\, and these remote locations fostered her love of travelling\, writing and the natural world. With a background in humanities and research\, she is an avid armchair historian with a passion for Victorian-era Aotearoa. She lives in the spectacular South Island on a small farm that once bred Clydesdales and spends her time with her adventurer husband\, two teens and far too many books. Where In All the World is Vanessa’s debut novel\, inspired by her belief that Aotearoa New Zealand’s past is rich in stories waiting to be told. \n\nABOUT RIDING THE ECHO DOWN BY PETER RYAN\nIntrepid hunter and adventurer Peter Ryan takes you around the world in a collection of lavishly illustrated essays on hunting and the natural world from a master of outdoor literature. Explore the lives of the great hunters of the past – from the primeval forests of early New Zealand to Africa\, Asia and the Americas – to the present and future of wilderness hunting. Riding the Echo Down is an essential read for fans of hunting stories and outdoor adventure. \n\nABOUT PETER RYAN\nAfter early years in New Zealand and Australia\, Peter volunteered for an aid project in southern Africa which led to an epic series of solo journeys across Africa and South America. He has hunted and fished across four continents and didn’t get lost on some of them. Peter’s writing and images have appeared in the world’s finest sporting journals for many years\, and have been translated into several languages. His previous books – Wild South\, Hunting New Zealand and Hunting Life: Moments of Truth – launched to critical acclaim. Peter lives on a small farm in New Zealand’s South Island with his wife\, daughter and son.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/adventure-night-double-book-launch-with-vanessa-croft-peter-ryan/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20251014T193000
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SUMMARY:Author Talk | Tina Makereti with Isla Huia
DESCRIPTION:Scorpio Books warmly welcomes you to a special author talk with Tina Makereti\, chaired by Isla Huia. Tina Makereti is the author of three novels\, most recently The Mires (Ultimo Press 2024)\, which will appear in the UK and US in September 2025\, and was shortlisted for the Ockham NZ Book Awards Acorn Fiction Prize. Her 2025 essay collection\, This Compulsion in Us (Te Herenga Waka Press)\, includes her prizewinning essay\, ‘Lumpectomy’\, from the 2022 Landfall Essay Competition. \nIsla Huia is a te reo Māori teacher\, writer and musician. Her most recent collection of poems Talia (2023) was shortlisted for the Ockham NZ Book Awards. Her work has been published in journals such as Catalyst and Awa Wāhine. \nAll welcome\, refreshments provided. Free event. Please send in your RSVP.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/author-talk-tina-makereti-with-isla-huia/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20251011T100000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20251011T170000
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SUMMARY:Bookshop Day 2025 at Telling Tales
DESCRIPTION:Calling all young readers! \nYou are cordially invited to Telling Tales on Saturday the 11th of October to celebrate Bookshop Day! We have a plethora of special offers on in the shop to celebrate the joy of good books. Join the party any time between 10am and 5pm in our stores at Five Lanes\, 120 Hereford Street. There will be spot prizes\, an I-Spy Window\, special appearances by local authors\, $10 Lucky Dip books\, character-themed dress-ups and the chance to win one of three awesome bookish prizes! If you’re looking for things for grown-ups to do\, make sure you check out what’s happening across the courtyard at Scorpio Books as well. \n\nThis year Telling Tales is giving away a BOOKSTACK to three lucky customers! Every in-store purchase earns you one entry form- just don’t forget to place it in the entry box of your choice! There will be something for every age\, from 0-13. These awesome prizes will be drawn after trading closes at 5pm on Bookshop Day.\nOur big windows are set to be transformed into a giant I Spy Window! Hidden within will be some cheeky penguin mates to spot (thanks to our friends at Penguin Books). Can you find them all?\nBookshop Day is about celebrating your local bookshop. Share why you love what we do\, and you can go in the draw to receive one of four prizes of $250 in Booksellers Book Tokens\, courtesy of Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand. All you need to do is fill in a special Love Your Bookshop Postcard at our in-store activity station. Write the reasons why you love your local bookstore on the postcard\, hand it in to us\, and we’ll send it in to Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand after Bookshop Day.\nWe will have $10 Lucky Dip books available for one day only*! Wrapped and decorated with clues as to age and topic\, snap up these great deals before they’re all gone.\nFrom 11am\, swing by the shop to meet your favourite local authors. This event is free- our special guests will be announced soon! Stay tuned for the update.\nThere will be a Make a Bookmark table set up in the shop- come along with your craftiest ideas and create something amazing!\nThere will be heaps of spot prizes on the day*. Bonus points for dressing up as your favourite book character!\nHave you got a wallet filled with old Scorpio Books loyalty cards? Lucky you- Loyalty Card Amnesty is back\, exclusively for Bookshop Day. Bring in your expired loyalty cards and we will treat them as valid. Terms and conditions apply.\n\n*While Stocks Last. \n\nBookshop Day is run by the Booksellers Association of New Zealand to encourage book lovers\, like you\, to celebrate your local bookshop. The artwork this year is by Donovan Bixley\, who took our themes of Community\, Hope and Fun and created these masterpieces. Keep an eye on the Booksellers Association of New Zealand website and their social media for updates on how you can celebrate Bookshop Day around the country. We can’t wait to celebrate 10 years of Bookshop Day with you! \nMedia enquiries: contact events@scorpiobooks.co.nz
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/bookshop-day-2025-at-telling-tales/
LOCATION:Telling Tales\, 101-111 Cashel Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Telling Tales
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DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20251011T170000
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SUMMARY:Bookshop Day 2025 at Scorpio Books
DESCRIPTION:Drum roll\, please! \nYou are cordially invited to Scorpio Books on Saturday the 11th of October to celebrate Bookshop Day! We have a plethora of special offers to spice up the shop and celebrate the joy of good books. Join the party any time between 10am and 5pm in our stores at Five Lanes\, 120 Hereford Street. There will be spot prizes\, giveaways\, special appearances by local authors\, blind dates with books\, literature-themed dress-ups and the chance to win our Big Bookstack! If you’re looking for things for young readers to do\, make sure you check out what’s happening across the courtyard at Telling Tales as well. \n\nBookshop Day is about celebrating your local bookshop. Share why you love what we do\, and you can go in the draw to receive one of four prizes of $250 in Booksellers Book Tokens\, courtesy of Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand. All you need to do is fill in a special Love Your Bookshop Postcard at our in-store activity station. Write the reasons why you love your local bookstore on the postcard\, hand it in to us\, and we’ll send it in to Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand after Bookshop Day.\nThis year Scorpio Books is giving away a BIG BOOKSTACK of new releases to one lucky customer! Every in-store purchase earns you one entry form- just don’t forget to place it in the entry box! This enormous prize will be drawn after trading closes at 5pm on Bookshop Day\, and it contains a range of books as eclectic as our store.\nWe are running our Blind Date with a Book promotion again this Bookshop Day but with a special\, cerebral twist. This year\, customers can go on a Blind Date with a BWB Text! For just $10\, get paired up with a short book on a big subject relevant to Aotearoa New Zealand. Usually priced between $17.99-$20\, these wrapped up beauties will be available at their special price on Bookshop Day\, while stocks last in-store and online. They each have a brief bio attached so you can find your perfect match! BWB Texts is a non-profit programme made possible by the BWB Publishing Trust\, with support from Ockham Residential and Creative New Zealand. Staff at Scorpio Books love these little books\, and we hope to sow the seeds of curiosity for these big topics in as many readers as we can.\nThere will be heaps of spot prizes to giveaway on the day. Keep an eye on our Scorpio Books social media accounts for the code word. Repeat this code word to staff at our main counter on Bookshop Day\, and you can pick your prize from our special Bookshop Day stash\, while stocks last!\nAnother way to get a chance to raid the spot prize stash: dress up! Come to the store on Bookshop Day in a literature-themed costume\, say hi to our staff at our main counter\, and you too can receive a special spot prize (while stocks last).\nFor Bookshop Day only\, Scorpio Books will be hiding one Libro.fm Golden Ticket somewhere in its stacks. The lucky person who finds this golden ticket will win 12 credits to exchange for audiobooks with Libro.fm! Libro.fm shares profits from audiobook purchases with your chosen bookshop\, giving you the power to keep money within your local economy. They are a Social Purpose Corporation\, Certified B Corp\, and 100% employee-owned. To find out more about the partnership of Libro.FM and Scorpio Books\, take a look at our digital Libro.FM bookstore here.\nHave you got a wallet filled with old Scorpio Books loyalty cards? Lucky you- Loyalty Card Amnesty is back\, exclusively for Bookshop Day. Bring in your expired loyalty cards and we will treat them as valid. Terms and conditions apply.\nPenguin Books New Zealand are bringing back their immensely popular Personal Penguins. Customers who purchase two Penguin books on Bookshop Day 2025 receive a Personal Penguin figure in a beautiful collector’s box. Psst- these penguins are different to last year’s! And supplies are limited.\nFrom 3pm\, swing by the shop to hear some of our favourite local authors reading from their books. This event is free- our special guests will be announced soon! Stay tuned for the update.\n\n\nBookshop Day is run by the Booksellers Association of New Zealand to encourage book lovers\, like you\, to celebrate your local bookshop. The artwork this year is by Donovan Bixley\, who took our themes of Community\, Hope and Fun and created these masterpieces. Keep an eye on the Booksellers Association of New Zealand website and their social media for updates on how you can celebrate Bookshop Day around the country. We can’t wait to celebrate 10 years of Bookshop Day with you! \nMedia enquiries: contact events@scorpiobooks.co.nz
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/bookshop-day-2025-at-scorpio-books/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20251010T193000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | The Food Farm by Angela Clifford & Nick Gill
DESCRIPTION:Scorpio Books and Bateman Books warmly welcome you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of The Food Farm by Angela Clifford and Nick Gill. More than just a cookbook\, The Food Farm is a glimpse into the lives of a family who grow and find most of their own food. Angela Clifford\, Nick Gill and their children live on a 16-acre permaculture property in North Canterbury\, New Zealand\, where they help others embark on their food growing journeys via on-farm workshops and events. \nAll welcome\, refreshments provided. Free event. \nPlease send in your RSVP. \nThere will be books for sale on the night for $55.00. \n\nABOUT THE BOOK\nIncluding a seasonal diary for sourcing your own fruit\, vegetables\, nuts\, eggs\, dairy\, honey\, meat from your own gardens\, paddocks and from the wild\, this gorgeous book also includes sensational recipes and preserves that allow you to get the most out of every harvest. Understanding the power of community sufficiency\, Angela and Nick encourage us all\, whatever our situation\, to grow\, find and cook more of our own food. The Food Farm is a vision for a healthier\, more nurturing and connected way of living for ourselves and our planet. \n\nABOUT THE AUTHORS\nAngela Clifford has loved using words to communicate thoughts and ideas since she was young. A life growing\, cooking and sharing food has provided a fertile ground to nurture her words. As one of New Zealand’s thought leaders in food\, farming and the environment she leads Aotearoa’s not for profit food movement Eat New Zealand\, their mission is to reconnect people with our land and ocean through food. \nBut her home base is The Food Farm\, a Permaculture property in North Canterbury. Here\, with her husband and children\, they run workshops and events\, helping other people learn how to grow\, preserve and make food from scratch. Their first book The Food Farm is a celebration of twenty years of living on and loving this piece of land. \nTo find out more about The Food Farm in North Canterbury\, see their website.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-the-food-farm-by-angela-clifford-nick-gill/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20251009T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20251009T193000
DTSTAMP:20260418T080632
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | Fire Stations of Aotearoa New Zealand by George Lockyer
DESCRIPTION:Scorpio Books and Catch Phrase Media warmly welcome you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of Fire Stations of Aotearoa New Zealand by local author George Lockyer. This book is a celebration of New Zealand’s fire stations and the people whose lives revolve around them. In its pages history\, heroism and hard work combine to tell stories that range from the busy station at Auckland’s international airport to the volunteer station in the tiny Southland township of Athol. \nAll welcome\, refreshments provided. Free event. \nPlease send in your RSVP. \nThere will be books for sale on the night for $45.00. \n\nABOUT THE BOOK\nIn Fire Stations of Aotearoa New Zealand\, the author hits the road once more. A retired volunteer Station Officer himself\, he visits a selection of the 653 fire stations the length and breadth of the country\, both career and volunteer stations. Interviewing mainly Fire Chiefs and Deputies\, the author delved into the motivation behind becoming a firefighter and how the Fire Brigade is a vital part of the community. As usual with George’s interviews\, he also attempts to get the personal stories\, whether they be humours\, poignant or heart-warming. A brief history of each Brigade is included as well as a glimpse into the structure and training of FENZ. \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR\n\nGeorge Lockyer was born in London but has made the seaside town of Governors Bay his home. George’s first article appeared many years ago in Australian Road Rider and his work has been published in a variety of magazines over the years. Since 2003 George’s travel articles\, columns and book reviews have appeared in New Zealand Bike Rider Magazine\, where his writing continues to have a considerable following. In 2013 while a volunteer firefighter George self-published\, The Governors Bay Volunteer Fire Brigade to celebrate its Silver Jubilee. He is the author of seven books including Iconic Kiwi Pubs\, Kiwis on Harleys\, The Long and Winding Aotearoa\, Kiwi Garages and Living the Dream: Kiwi Bikers.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-fire-stations-of-aotearoa-new-zealand-by-george-lockyer/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | Eddie Sparkle's Bridal Taxi by Frankie McMillan
DESCRIPTION:Scorpio Books and Canterbury University Press warmly welcome you to the launch of Eddie Sparkle’s Bridal Taxi by local author Frankie McMillan. \nFrankie McMillan is one of the leading writers of the short-short form in Aotearoa New Zealand\, and Eddie Sparkle’s Bridal Taxi\, her seventh book\, sees her at her best. The prose poems and small stories here demonstrate exceptional range\, examining the tiniest psychodramas but also meditating on drownings and shootings and infidelities and nuclear warfare. McMillan finds the unusual in the everyday\, and she is equally at home with lovers embracing in the fields and with reclusive aunts fading away in poky old houses. This is writing that reveals humans working out how to be their ridiculous and beautiful little selves. This is writing that feels like thinking. \nAll welcome\, refreshments provided. Free event. \nPlease send in your RSVP. \nThere will be books for sale on the night for $29.99. \n\nABOUT THE BOOK\n“This dextrous\, inventive collection is a masterclass on the possibilities of form. A writer of profound imaginative curiosity\, McMillan interrogates real and surreal worlds – animals\, angels\, performers\, thieves – with wit\, sharp insight and a delight in the small\, strange moments of lives.”— Paula Morris \n“Frankie McMillan hides the mystery of both our deepest psychological wounds and our most valued intimacies\, inside poems and stories that enchant\, the way intricate\, miniature\, singing mechanical birds might: but beware\, they are sharp-eyed\, and can bite with the teeth of truth.” — Emma Neale \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nFrankie McMillan is the author of four previous books from Canterbury University Press. The Father of Octopus Wrestling was chosen by The Spinoff as one of the ten best New Zealand fiction books of 2019 and was shortlisted for the New Zealand Society of Authors Heritage Book Awards. My Mother and the Hungarians (2016) was longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards in fiction. She has won numerous awards and creative writing residencies\, including the Ursula Bethell Residency at the University of Canterbury (2014)\, the University of Auckland Residency at the Michael King Writers Centre (2017) and the NZSA Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship (2019). McMillan spends her time between Ōtautahi Christchurch and Mohua Golden Bay.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-eddie-sparkles-bridal-taxi-by-frankie-mcmillan/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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SUMMARY:Scorpio Books Club: Katabasis
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. \nThis month\, we will be discussing: Katabasis by R.F. Kuang \nWhat does membership to our book club entail?\nWe meet on the first Tuesday of the month to discuss last month’s Book of the Month. A ticket to a Scorpio Books Club meeting costs $10 each month\, paid on the night. Scorpio Books will provide drinks\, nibbles and a cosy place to chat. Staff members will lead the discussion and present recommended reads for those hungry for more. After our discussion\, there will be time to browse and chat\, and members will receive 10% off all full-price purchases on the night. \nIf you would like to come prepared\, we send out an email to those who have registered in advance with reviews and some questions to get the conversation flowing. This is not required reading\, it’s just there if you are keen or would like more context for the book. A list of all the books mentioned on the night will be emailed to the Books Club mailing list the next day. \nClick here to register for Scorpio Books Club.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/scorpio-books-club-2-8/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | Everything But The Medicine by Lucy O'Hagan
DESCRIPTION:GP Lucy O’Hagan launches her book Everything But the Medicine. \nLucy will perform ‘Inside the GP consultation’ and read from her book. \n‘Stunning. Kind\, joyful and wise. Everything but the Medicine…is very much a medicine itself.’ Glenn Colquhoun. \nBook sales and signings. \nBar and nibbles from 6pm. \nSupported by Scorpio Books Christchurch. \nThanks so much to Massey University Press.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-everything-but-the-medicine-by-lucy-ohagan/
LOCATION:Lumière Cinemas\, 26 Rolleston Avenue\, Christchurch Central City\, Christchurch\, Canterbury\, 8013\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Off-site
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20250930T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20250930T190000
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SUMMARY:Author Talk | Foraging New Zealand by Peter Langlands
DESCRIPTION:Join Rob Cruickshank in conversation with Foraging New Zealand author Peter Langlands. Hear awe-inspiring secrets about our environment. Peter is compiling Aotearoa’s largest database of wild foraged species\, and works with international foragers on expanding the spectrum and use of wild foods. \n“Accurately identifying wildfoods is paramount and I reckon if you can learn about one new species a day then by the end of the year you will be able to forage a diverse repertoire of species\, and my book is a good starting point”. \nScorpio will be on site for book sales and signing. \nJoin us for a night of discovery that is sure to change the way we see our world. Not to be missed!
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/author-talk-foraging-new-zealand-by-peter-langlands/
LOCATION:Tūranga\, 60 Cathedral Square\, Christchurch
CATEGORIES:Off-site
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