Scorpio Books and The Mahjong Project warmly welcome you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of Mahjong: House Rules from Across the Asian Diaspora by Nicole Wong. All welcome, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP. Please note the earlier time of 4.30pm for a 5pm start. Pre-order your copy today! ABOUT THE BOOK For many third-culture […]
Scorpio Books and Quentin Wilson Publishing warmly invite you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of The Girl from Sarajevo: Two Novellas by Stef Harris. All welcome, refreshments provided. Pre-order your copy today! Please send in your RSVP. ABOUT THE BOOK THE GIRL FROM SARAJEVO Young and self-assured immigrant Katia will do anything to become a […]
Scorpio Books and Penguin Books New Zealand warmly invite you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of The Bookshop Detectives 2: Tea and Cake and Death by Gareth and Louise Ward. All welcome, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP. Pre-order your copy today! ABOUT THE BOOK In this rollicking new adventure, Garth and Eloise (and Stevie) […]
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. At this meeting, we will be discussing The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich. What does membership to our book club entail? We meet on the first Tuesday […]
Scorpio Books and Cloud Ink Press warmly invite you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of Truth Needs No Colour by award-winning local author Heather McQuillan. All welcome, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP, and you are welcome to wear something red. Pre-order your copy today! ABOUT THE BOOK Life is already unfair for 15-year-old Mariana. […]
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. March Book of the Month: Delirious by Damien Wilkins. On the first Tuesday of each month, we’ll discuss our previous Book of the Month. Scorpio will provide […]
Scorpio Books warmly invites you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of Coming In From The Cold: Tautoko Tāne enabling the wellbeing of male survivors of sexual violence by Bex De Prospo Carr, Fiona Clapham Howard and Tony Chamberlain. All welcome, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP. ABOUT THE BOOK This anthology features the courageous […]
Scorpio Books and Huia Publishers warmly welcome you to the launch of Charlie Tangaroa and the God of War by local author T K Roxborogh. This junior fiction title is the sequel to 2020's Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea, supreme winner of the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year and winner of […]
The exclusive first-ever public event for ngā pukapuka pekapeka, the new Ōtautahi micropress, is here. Join us at Scorpio Books to be the first in Aotearoa to get your hands on three carefully curated chapbooks. All welcome, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP. My Moana Girls by Ruby Macomber is a poetry collection dedicated […]
Walker Books and Scorpio Books warmly invite you to the launch of The Strange and Unlikely Tale of Montgomery, the Mysterious Bird of Mystery by Antony Elworthy. All welcome, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP. ABOUT THE BOOK From the animator of The Corpse Bride, Coraline and Isle of Dogs, comes a hilarious, illustrated […]
Scorpio Book and Cold Hub Press warmly invite you to the launch of Hotel Theresa by Doc Drumheller. All welcome, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP and pre-order your book today! ABOUT THE BOOK The Hotel Theresa is a landmark in Harlem, New York City, where legendary figures like Josephine Baker, Duke Ellington, Malcolm […]
Scorpio Books and Massey University Press warmly invite you to the launch of Woolsheds: The historic shearing sheds of Aotearoa New Zealand by Annette O’Sullivan and Jane Ussher. All welcome, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP and pre-order your book today! ABOUT THE BOOK Towards the end of the nineteenth century, wool, mutton and […]