Scorpio Books

Scorpio Books and Mary Egan Publishing warmly invite you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of Unsettled Bliss: whiteness in Aotearoa by Elizabeth Ann Cook. This powerful new book confronts whiteness in Aotearoa – its history, its consequences, and the responsibilities it demands. All welcome, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP. Pre-order your copy of […]

Scorpio Books and Penguin Books NZ warmly invite you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of 1985: A Novel by best-selling author Dominic Hoey. All welcome, refreshments provided. You can pre-order your copy today! Please send in your RSVP. This event will take place during our annual sale, so there will be limited spaces available. ABOUT THE BOOK […]

Scorpio Books and Auckland University Press warmly invite you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of Tony Fomison: Life of the Artist by Mark Forman. In a career spanning three decades, Tony Fomison (1939-1990) produced some of New Zealand’s most artistically and culturally significant paintings and drawings, the backdrop of which was a life – inseparable […]

Scorpio Books and Massey University Press warmly invite you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of Short – Poto: The big book of small stories – Iti te kupu, nui te kōrero edited by Michelle Elvy and Kiri Piahana-Wong. This event will feature readings from: Claudia Jardine, Māia Te Whetū, Erik Kennedy, Gail Ingram, Heather McQuillan, Isla […]

Scorpio Books and Auckland University Press warmly welcome you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of Terrier, Worrier: A Poem in Five Parts by Anna Jackson. Part autobiography of thought, part philosophical tract, part poetics, a book about chickens and family and seasons, Terrier, Worrier is a literary sequence to be relished as language and as […]