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SUMMARY:Author Talk | Shana Chandra
DESCRIPTION:Scorpio Books and Moa Press warmly invite you to an author talk featuring Shana Chandra\, author of Banjara. Set in Aotearoa\, Australia\, India and Fiji\, Banjara is an essential reimagining of Indo-Fijian Girmitiya history\, and a love letter to our ancestors whose stories live on in our genes. Shana will talk about the history that inspired her novel and be available for questions from the audience. \nShana Chandra is a Tamaki Makaurau-born writer\, researcher and educator of Indo-Fijian heritage and Girmitiya descent\, currently based in Limoges\, France. Her writing voices the history of her displaced and forgotten indentured-labourer ancestors in their words\, repairing and restoring it from beneath the empire’s shadow and exploring how the violence and complexities of their indenture rooted into her life growing up in Aotearoa. After living in Japan and Naarm (Melbourne)\, in 2016 she completed her Masters of Creative Writing at the University of Technology in Sydney. Her writing has appeared in Lindsay\, Love in the Time of Covid Chronicle\, UTS Anthology: The Light Borrowers and Landfall magazine. For the past decade Shana has also worked as a freelance writer and has been featured in international fashion\, arts and culture publications. \nAll welcome\, this is a free event. Refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/author-talk-shana-chandra/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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SUMMARY:Harvest Party
DESCRIPTION:Come and celebrate The Real Halloween with seasonally-appropriate readings from local authors. Scorpio Books will be open late for this special event. \nInspired by The Food Farm’s practice of celebrating Halloween in late April\, the equivalent of late October for the Northern Hemisphere\, we’ve put together a line-up of readers to help get you into an autumnal mood. Scorpio’s very own Isabelle Taylor will read from her new fantasy romance novel Accidentally Wedded to a Werewolf (book one of the Claw Haven series). Kerry Donovan Brown\, author of magic realism novel Lamplighter (2014)\, will read from their new science fiction fantasy novel. Angela Clifford and Nick Gill of The Food Farm will share some pearls of wisdom about what happens on the farm at this time of year. Isla Huia\, author of Talia (2023\, shortlisted for the Ockham NZ Book Awards)\, has unfortunately had to cancel her appearance- we were very excited at the prospect of hearing poems from her forthcoming collection due out in July with Dead Bird Books! The good news is Ray Shipley\, author of poetry chapbook My Body Is A Horror Film\, will be joining the line-up. Ray emcees Late Night Poetry Hour at Little Andromeda and used to work right here at Scorpio Books! With a chapbook title like that\, they were a no-brainer for a special spooky-themed reading event. \nAll welcome\, drinks and nibbles provided. Free event. \nAbout the authors\nIsabelle Taylor writes sweet\, steamy fantasy romance. She works in a bookstore in New Zealand and has a Creative Writing Masters from the International Institute of Modern Letters. \nKerry Donovan Brown is the author of the novel Lamplighter (2014)\, which won the prestigious Adam Prize from the International Institute of Modern Letters in 2012. Kerry grew up in Waikuku Beach\, North Canterbury. Their work has also appeared in Out Here: An Anthology of Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ Writers from Aotearoa (2021). \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. \nNick Gill is a farmer who is a cook. He’s spent his life as a viticulturist\, amongst the grape vines\, with experience and interest in organic and regenerative farming systems. He wrote the recipes for the book. Their home base is The Food Farm\, a Permaculture property in North Canterbury. Here\, with their three almost adult children\, they run workshops\, tours 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. The Food Farm was short-listed in NZ BookLovers Awards in 2026. \nRay Shipley is an Ōtautahi-based writer and performer\, best known as the host and organiser of Late Night Poetry Hour – a celebration of poetry\, feelings\, and staying up past bedtime\, which has run monthly at Little Andromeda Theatre since 2020. Ray has won the Christchurch Poetry Slam five times\, and their debut poetry chapbook\, published by ngā pukapuka pekapeka\, was released in November 2025. They have performed three solo comedy shows at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival\, including All This Crying Is Making Me Hungry\, which was nominated for the Billy T Award in 2019.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/harvest-party/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | Pepeha Portal by Ariana Tikao
DESCRIPTION:Scorpio Books and Otago University Press warmly welcome you to the launch of Pepeha Portal by Ariana Tikao. \nPepeha Portal is the keenly anticipated debut poetry collection from New Zealand Arts Laureate Ariana Tikao. Rooted in Kāi Tahu identity\, the collection chronicles a homecoming and offers a moving account of memory\, place and connection. \nBorn and raised in Ōtautahi Christchurch\, Tikao left the city after the devastating earthquakes of 2010 and 2011. In 2023 she was awarded the Ursula Bethell Residency at the University of Canterbury and returned to live in a place that was both deeply familiar and astonishingly new. Written largely during this period\, Pepeha Portal is shaped by stories embedded in the landscape – many long erased by colonialism and only recently exposed by cultural\, as much as geological\, shifts. \nResponding to suburban landscapes and tīpuna places\, personal memory and ancestral voice\, Pepeha Portal considers how language\, whakapapa and whenua act as portals to belonging. \nAll welcome\, this is a free event. Refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP. \nAbout the author\nAriana Tikao is a Kāi Tahu writer\, musician and New Zealand Arts Laureate. Her work spans poetry\, music and interdisciplinary performance\, and has been published widely in Aotearoa. Her book Mokorua: My Story of Moko Kauae was published in 2022 (AUP). Pepeha Portal is her debut poetry collection.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-pepeha-portal-by-ariana-tikao/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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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: Half His Age by Jenette McCurdy \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-3-2-3/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | Every Second Counts by Charlotte Glennie
DESCRIPTION:Scorpio Books and Moa Press warmly welcome you the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of Every Second Counts by Charlotte Glennie. \nCharlotte Glennie is an accomplished journalist with more than two decades of experience as a broadcast journalist and media specialist\, half of that spent working in Asia. She has worked with media organisations including the BBC\, ABC and TVNZ\, and her career highlights include New Zealand’s Supreme Award for Excellence in Television Journalism – recognising coverage of news in Asia\, including the Indian Ocean tsunami; the New Zealand Government Special Service Medal for reporting in the aftermath of the Asian tsunami and the Clarion Award for Radio Documentary of the Year – an ABC investigation into the impact of the war in Afghanistan on Australian soldiers and their families. Every Second Counts is her first book. \nCharlotte Glennie will be in conversation with Jendy Harper. All welcome\, this is a free event. Refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP. \nAbout the book\nEvery Second Counts is a fascinating\, fast-paced memoir by award-winning NZ journalist Charlotte Glennie\, who survived life-changing injuries after a near-fatal accident. She went on to break new ground reporting across Asia during major world events\, including political crackdowns and natural disasters. \nSet in New Zealand\, Australia\, Asia and Europe\, this is the adrenaline-fuelled life of a journalist during the heyday of television news\, doing whatever it took to uncover the facts. From being the first New Zealand correspondent to report from North Korea\, telling stories from far-flung places in China\, Mongolia and Russia\, reporting live in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami which killed over 230\,000 people\, to battling monsoon rains in the world’s largest refugee camp in southern Bangladesh\, Charlotte writes about people living in extreme circumstances\, and what it is like to be there alongside them. \nCharlotte tells the stories that linger long after they’ve left the news cycle and the toll of the lifestyle\, the budget cuts and the layoffs. Every Second Counts is also a universal story chronicling the dramatic moments in our lives that change us forever\, and the courage people so often display when coping with crisis. \n 
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/author-talk-charlotte-glennie/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | A Day Like No Other by James Norcliffe
DESCRIPTION:Scorpio Books and Otago University Press warmly welcome you to the launch of A Day Like No Other: Selected poems by James Norcliffe. \nJames Norcliffe\, awarded the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry in 2022\, is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most distinguished and beloved contemporary poets. A Day Like No Other gathers poems from his remarkable career\, which includes eleven collections spanning nearly four decades. \nAll welcome\, this is a free event. Refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP. \nAbout the book\nOften conversational in tone – talking (it may seem) of you and me – these poems are perceptive and witty. They ring with clarity as they pay witness to the turn of the seasons\, environmentally\, domestically and politically. Their range of reference is both broad and local\, as Norcliffe sweeps his lens through time and space and\, with superb control of focus\, zooms in and out on the peculiarities of our species and our planet. The ‘here and now’ is vividly present in every poem\, and every poem also quietly insists that there is much more to ‘here’ and ‘now’ than is obvious at first glance. To read a Norcliffe poem can be to feel the sun on one’s face and\, simultaneously\, a shiver down the spine. \nA beautifully designed and artfully curated volume\, A Day Like No Other is a fine selection of James Norcliffe’s like-no-other poems. It will be read and re-read for generations\, and is a must-have for confirmed Norcliffe fans and Norcliffe newbies alike. \nAbout the author\nJames Norcliffe is a poet\, children’s writer\, novelist and editor. He was awarded the 2022 Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry and has published 11 poetry collections\, most recently Letter to ’Oumuamua (Otago University Press\, 2023). He is also the author of 14 novels for young readers\, notably the award-winning Loblolly Boy series\, and his first adult novel\, The Frog Prince (RHNZ Vintage)\, was published in 2022. Norcliffe has a long association with the Canterbury Poets’ Collective\, takahē\, the ReDraft anthologies and Flash Frontier.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-a-day-like-no-other-by-james-norcliffe/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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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: Hood’s Landing by Laura Vincent. \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-3-2-2/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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SUMMARY:Author Talk | Eva Wyles
DESCRIPTION:Scorpio Books and Influx Press (UK) warmly welcome you to an author talk with Eva Wyles\, chaired by Kiran Dass\, and with an introduction by Tina Makereti. \nEva Wyles is the author of Deliverywoman\, a stunning debut collection of thirteen short stories that dive into the complexities of human connection\, the pursuit of meaning\, and modern-day loneliness. Across a diverse cast of characters – from teachers and gas station workers to hedonistic revellers and wealthy gamers – Wyles explores the strange dimensions of our world and the dangers of ordinary life\, with needle-sharp writing both real and surreal. \nAll welcome\, this is a free event. Refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP. \nAbout the speakers\nEva Wyles is a graduate of Te Herenga Waka and the MA programme in fiction at the International Institute of Modern Letters\, where she worked on a short-story collection that received the Jean Squire Project Scholarship. She grew up in Te Whanganui-a-Tara and is currently based in London. Deliverywoman is her first book. \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. \nTina Makereti writes novels\, short fiction and creative nonfiction. Her latest work is a collection of personal essays\, This Compulsion in Us\, and the Ockham shortlisted novel\, The Mires. She is also author of The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke\, Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings and Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa\, and co-editor of Black Marks on the White Page\, an anthology that celebrates Māori and Pasifika writing. Tina teaches a Master of Arts Creative Writing workshop at the International Institute of Modern Letters\, Wellington. \n 
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/author-talk-eva-wyles/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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SUMMARY:Author Talk & Exhibition | Gavin Bishop | Taniwha
DESCRIPTION:Scorpio Books and Penguin Random House NZ invite you to join us for an author talk and exhibition of prints by much-beloved Ōtautahi illustrator\, Gavin Bishop. \nCome along on Thursday\, February 19th at 5.30pm (6pm start) to celebrate Gavin’s latest book\, Taniwha. Gavin will talk about the creation of this book and be available for book signing. \nThere will also be an exhibition of prints taken from the book\, which will be available for sale. \nPlease RSVP via the Events link in our bio. All welcome\, drinks and nibbles provided. Please RSVP here. \nPlease note\, this event will be held in a separate space in the courtyard of the BNZ Centre\, just opposite Scorpio Books. Ask us at the front counter for directions if needed.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/author-talk-exhibition-gavin-bishop-taniwha/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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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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DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20251213T110000
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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: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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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20251127T173000
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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: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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DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20251105T190000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20251104T180000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20251104T193000
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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
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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:20251025T140000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20251025T150000
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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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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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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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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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DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20251009T193000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20250925T100000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20250925T110000
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SUMMARY:High Tea with Jess Urlichs
DESCRIPTION:Bring the kids along for a delightful morning of fun\, food and family celebrating local author Jessica Urlichs and her latest books May You Always Know: A Poem of Hopes and Dreams and My Friends and I. \nThere will be a special reading of My Friends and I and kindness-based activities while parents can hear about Jess’s journey through writing\, motherhood\, and building an online community of one million followers. \nAll welcome\, this event will have something for families with children of all ages. \nFree event\, please send in your RSVP. \nBrought to you by Moa Press & Scorpio Books. \nThis event will take place in the main bookstore\, Scorpio Books. \n\nABOUT THE BOOK\nFrom the author of the beloved international bestseller You Hung the Moon comes a stunning gift book full of hopes and dreams for children. \nYou won’t always get it right\nAnd mistakes aren’t always wrong.\nLife is full of learning\, \nGaining wisdom is lifelong. \nA beautiful book detailing in prose the things a parent always wants their child to know as they go through life. Gorgeously illustrated by Bethany Gale\, this poem from bestselling author Jessica Urlichs will strike all the right chords as a gift for loved ones or for yourself. \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nJessica Urlichs shot to stardom on social media with her honest and heartfelt poetry centering around her family and motherhood. Jessica met her husband in Australia where they lived together for many years and are now raising their children in New Zealand. She continues to connect with the world with her writing via Instagram. Follow her @jessurlichs.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/high-tea-with-jess-urlichs/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20250924T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20250924T193000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch | The Edge of Light 2: The Miracle by A. M. Dixon
DESCRIPTION:Scorpio Books and OneTree House warmly welcome you to the launch of The Edge of Light #2: The Miracle by local author A. M. Dixon. \nAll welcome\, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP. There will be books for sale on the night for $30.00. \nThe Miracle is book #2 in The Edge of Light Trilogy. Book #1\, New Dawning\, was published in 2023 and received a Storylines Notable Young Adult Fiction award. \n\nAbout the book\nMerel lives on a futuristic island\, a sanctuary built amidst a vast sea. Generations ago\, her community weathered devastating floods and scorching heat\, forever shaping their world into one of perpetual twilight. \nTheir lives are governed by ancient traditions\, “the truth\,” born from the necessity to control their population. These traditions are harsh\, demanding sacrifice. But as Merel navigates this carefully constructed society\, the reader begins to understand that this world may be set in a future version of New Zealand. \n\nAbout the author\nA. M. Dixon is a Christchurch-based writer. Her short stories and flash fiction have appeared in journals and anthologies in New Zealand and overseas. She holds a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Auckland\, and is a graduate of Hagley Writers’ Institute. \nShe likes to write first thing in the morning and will often start her day by writing a piece of flash fiction or poetry\, before moving on to her current work in progress. She is inspired by the outdoors and loves watching the sun rise. An avid reader she especially enjoys work by other Aotearoa New Zealand authors. \n 
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-the-edge-of-light-2-the-miracle-by-a-m-dixon/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20250904T173000
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SUMMARY:Author Talk | The Covid Response by Shaun Hendy | BWB Talks
DESCRIPTION: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! \nThursday 4 September \nScorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch 8011\nDoors open from 5.30pm\, event starts 6pm\nNau mai\, haere mai. Public event\, no RVSP needed. \nContact info@bwb.co.nz for more information. \nDownload the event invite here. \nShaun Hendy is appearing in other centres\, see: www.bwb.co.nz/events \nThis event is supported by The Royal Society Te Apārangi and Te Pūnaha Matatini. Copies of The Covid Response will be available to buy on the night for $39.99. \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nProfessor Shaun Hendy MNZM FRSNZ is a renowned physicist and science communicator. As the founding director of Te Pūnaha Matatini\, he played a key role in New Zealand’s Covid-19 response. Hendy’s work has been recognised with numerous awards\, including the Callaghan Medal for Science Communication and the Prime Minister’s Science Media Communication Prize. His previous books include Silencing Science (BWB\, 2016) and #NoFly (BWB\, 2019). He continues to contribute to the public understanding of science as an adjunct professor at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington. \n\nABOUT THE BOOK\nIn March 2020\, New Zealand had three confirmed cases of COVID-19\, panic buying had begun\, and no one knew what to expect next. Had the virus run the same course as it did in the US and UK\, by March 2023 there would have been more than 17\,000 fatalities. Instead\, Aotearoa achieved one of the lowest health burdens in the world\, while enduring fewer restrictions than almost any other country in the OECD. How did we get here? And at what cost? \nIn The Covid Response\, Shaun Hendy offers an insider’s account of New Zealand’s science-driven strategy for confronting the global pandemic. As his team at Te Pūnaha Matatini springs into action\, he takes us behind the scenes in real time. He unpacks the science informing rapid\, high-stakes decisions\, evaluating the costs of those decisions and asking what lessons they offer for the future.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/author-talk-the-covid-response-by-shaun-hendy-bwb-talks/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20250902T180000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20250902T193000
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SUMMARY:Scorpio Books Club: Beautyland
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 Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino. \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-2-7/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
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