BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Scorpio Books - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Scorpio Books
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Scorpio Books
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:Pacific/Auckland
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+1300
TZOFFSETTO:+1200
TZNAME:NZST
DTSTART:20230401T140000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+1200
TZOFFSETTO:+1300
TZNAME:NZDT
DTSTART:20230923T140000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+1300
TZOFFSETTO:+1200
TZNAME:NZST
DTSTART:20240406T140000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+1200
TZOFFSETTO:+1300
TZNAME:NZDT
DTSTART:20240928T140000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+1300
TZOFFSETTO:+1200
TZNAME:NZST
DTSTART:20250405T140000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+1200
TZOFFSETTO:+1300
TZNAME:NZDT
DTSTART:20250927T140000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+1300
TZOFFSETTO:+1200
TZNAME:NZST
DTSTART:20260404T140000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+1200
TZOFFSETTO:+1300
TZNAME:NZDT
DTSTART:20260926T140000
END:DAYLIGHT
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20250404T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20250404T193000
DTSTAMP:20260503T113527
CREATED:20250225T035551Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250309T231235Z
UID:10000109-1743787800-1743795000@scorpiobooks.co.nz
SUMMARY:Book Launch | The Bookshop Detectives 2: Tea and Cake and Death by Gareth and Louise Ward
DESCRIPTION: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. \nPre-order your copy today! \n\nABOUT THE BOOK \nIn this rollicking new adventure\, Garth and Eloise (and Stevie) must sniff out a prolific poisoner ahead of a vital fundraising event\, the Battle of the Book Clubs. As time runs out and the body count rises\, it seems the bad actors are circling closer to the people and places they care about. \nCould Pinter\, the infamous serial killer from Eloise’s past\, somehow be involved? And when anyone could be a suspect\, how can Garth and Eloise keep their customers\, their small town and their beloved bookshop safe? \n\n\nABOUT THE AUTHORS \nGareth and Louise Ward are the real-life owners of independent bookshop Wardini Books\, with stores in Havelock North and Napier\, New Zealand. \nLouise is known among the staff as Fearless Leader and Gareth as a bit of a dick; he is\, however\, the author of the Tarquin the Honest and The Rise of the Remarkables book series\, as well as being the bestselling and award-winning author of The Traitor and the Thief and The Clockill and the Thief. \nGareth and Louise met at police training college in the UK and are both ex-coppers. Louise has one murder arrest to her name\, is an English Literature Graduate and as an ex-teacher inflicted Shakespeare on inner-city twelve-year-olds. She regularly reviews books on RNZ. \nBoth are obsessed with their rescue dog Stevie\, avoid housework and gardening\, and live in the cultural centre of the universe that is Hawke’s Bay\, Aotearoa New Zealand.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-tea-and-cake-and-death/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/TeaAndCakeAndDeath_Scorpio_EventBaner.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20250401T180000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20250401T193000
DTSTAMP:20260503T113527
CREATED:20250304T231711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250325T015427Z
UID:10000177-1743530400-1743535800@scorpiobooks.co.nz
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. \nAt this meeting\, we will be discussing The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich. \nWhat does membership to our book club entail?\nWe meet on the first Tuesday of each 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 the next Scorpio Books Club meeting.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/scorpio-books-club-2-2/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/BooksClubEventTile-3.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20250319T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20250319T193000
DTSTAMP:20260503T113527
CREATED:20250217T235843Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250309T231203Z
UID:10000107-1742405400-1742412600@scorpiobooks.co.nz
SUMMARY:Book Launch | Truth Needs No Colour by Heather McQuillan
DESCRIPTION: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. \nPre-order your copy today! \n\nABOUT THE BOOK \n\nLife is already unfair for 15-year-old Mariana. Her father’s missing and her activist mother is dead. Marooned with her grandparents in the cyclone-wrecked South Island\, life is dominated by Carapace\, a corrupt corporation. When Mariana wears a red dress to her new school\, she breaks an obscure rule and puts her family at risk. \nMariana yearns to stand up for her friend Filiki\, who’s trapped in Carapace’s school-to-prison pipeline. Fear keeps her silent. When Mariana finally speaks up\, it’s to disastrous effect and puts everyone she loves in danger. \nAs she confronts her fears\, Mariana must make her voice heard-because this time it might change everything. \nTruth Needs No Colour is a haunting novel for young readers about the difference one voice can make. \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nHeather McQuillan is an award-winning writer based in Ōtautahi Christchurch\, New Zealand. As well as writing for young people she writes short fiction\, flash fiction and poetry and has been widely published in Aotearoa and internationally. Heather is the director of Write On School for Young Writers where she works to give agency to young writers.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-truth-needs-no-colour/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/TruthNeedsNoColour_EventCalendarTileBookCover-1.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20250304T180000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20250304T193000
DTSTAMP:20260503T113527
CREATED:20250226T030137Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250226T030541Z
UID:10000112-1741111200-1741116600@scorpiobooks.co.nz
SUMMARY:Scorpio Books Club | March: Delirious by Damien Wilkins
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. \nMarch Book of the Month: Delirious by Damien Wilkins. \nOn the first Tuesday of each month\, we’ll discuss our previous Book of the Month. Scorpio will provide drinks\, nibbles and a cozy space to chat. Scorpio staff members will lead the discussion\, and afterwards present their other recommended reads for those hungry for more. After our discussion\, there will be time to browse and chat\, and attendees will receive 10% off all full-priced purchases on the night. \nFor those who like to come prepared\, we’ll send out an email to ticket holders a few days prior with reviews and some questions to get the ideas flowing. This is not required reading – just there if you’re keen. A list of all books mentioned on the night will be emailed to ticket holders in the days following. \nSpaces are limited\, and a ticket costs $10 each month. You can buy one on our website\, over the phone or by visiting us instore. \nWhen: the first Tuesday of each month\, 6-7.30pm\nWhere: Scorpio Books\nTickets: $10 per person per month \nIf you have any questions about the Scorpio Books Club\, please email bookclub@scorpiobooks.co.nz. \n* Cancellation policy: tickets can be cancelled until 9am on the day by emailing bookclub@scorpiobooks.co.nz. The ticket price cannot be refunded\, but transferred to store credit that will never expire.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/scorpio-books-club-march-delirious-by-damien-wilkins/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IGTile_BooksClub.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20250218T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20250218T193000
DTSTAMP:20260503T113527
CREATED:20241025T025909Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250123T034414Z
UID:10000100-1739899800-1739907000@scorpiobooks.co.nz
SUMMARY:Book Launch | Coming In From The Cold
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\nABOUT THE BOOK \nThis anthology features the courageous first-hand accounts of 26 male survivors of sexual abuse and violence in Aotearoa New Zealand. Through their eyes\, we are able to see the environments and systems in which the abuses took place\, the profound effects of those experiences\, and the survivors’ reflections upon them as they navigate their lives. Their generous contributions illustrate the transformational power of connection\, support\, hope and aroha. As the heart of this work\, their stories help to showcase more than two decades of mahi by Tautoko Tāne Aotearoa\, detailed through a brief organisational history unfolded in four seasonal essays. \n\nABOUT THE AUTHORS \nBex De Prospo Carr is a multi-disciplinarian who uses the power of words\, performance stages\, and sound to tell impactful stories to create a better world. With a background spanning rock and roll\, theatre\, and strategic communications\, Bex has carved a niche in leveraging storytelling as a tool for social and environmental change. Find out more about Bex De Prospo Carr here: www.authenticstorytelling.co.nz. \nFiona Clapham Howard has worked in the New Zealand mental health and addictions sector since 2004\, predominantly in lived experience roles. She has led teams working in peer support\, as well as in individual and systemic advocacy. She is an experienced peer support and advocacy trainer with a particular interest in exploring the impact of systems\, structures\, power imbalances\, and the legacy left to survivors of childhood adversity and trauma. \nTony Chamberlain works with not-for-profit and social enterprise communities to develop on-purpose strategic agendas and effective governance frameworks. He is proud to be working with his colleagues in Tautoko Tāne Aotearoa to build a capable national organisation\, enabling its member organisations to provide an appropriate nationwide support service for the male survivors of sexual abuse.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-coming-in-from-the-cold/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Tile_ComingInFromTheCold.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20241204T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20241204T193000
DTSTAMP:20260503T113527
CREATED:20241119T224109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241119T224109Z
UID:10000105-1733333400-1733340600@scorpiobooks.co.nz
SUMMARY:Book Launch | Charlie Tangaroa and the God of War
DESCRIPTION: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 Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Junior Fiction Award at the 2021 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. All welcome\, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP. \n\nABOUT THE BOOK \nLike every year\, the summer brings new people to Tolaga Bay. It’s been a full year since Charlie saved his hometown from destruction at the hands of gods\, warring sea creatures and natural disasters. Charlie and his younger brother\, Robbie\, are enjoying their normal lives – fishing off the wharf and helping out at their mum’s store – that is\, until a visiting scientist is stabbed at the local campground\, days before a meeting between local iwi and the government. So begins Charlie’s quest to uncover a mystery taking place in the hills above the town \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n\n\n\nT K Roxborogh (Ngāti Porou\, Ngāti Mutunga o Wharekauri) is an award-winning author of more than thirty published works\, both fiction and non-fiction. Her latest publication Charlie Tangaroa and the Creature from the Sea won the Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction and the supreme Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award at the 2021 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. She teaches English and has been a writing mentor and judge for short stories and for the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-charlie-tangaroa-and-the-god-of-war/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Cover-image-Charlie-Tangaroa-and-the-God-of-War-by-T-K-Roxborogh-pic-2.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20241128T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20241128T193000
DTSTAMP:20260503T113527
CREATED:20241114T003623Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241119T004313Z
UID:10000104-1732815000-1732822200@scorpiobooks.co.nz
SUMMARY:Chapbook Launch | ngā pukapuka pekapeka Series One
DESCRIPTION: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. \nMy Moana Girls by Ruby Macomber is a poetry collection dedicated to the tenacious Indigenous sisterhoods we would be lost without. \nParallel Lines by Molly Laurence is a collection of currents running through tūrangawaewae\, school days\, and the hum of bread baking. \nintroduced species by C R Green is a hybrid collection of poetry and prose that weaves a dialogue between humanity and nature across the framework of C R Green’s own lifetime.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/chapbook-launch-nga-pukapuka-pekapeka-series-one/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/NPP_TileLaunch.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20241119T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20241119T193000
DTSTAMP:20260503T113527
CREATED:20241029T014113Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241029T014113Z
UID:10000101-1732037400-1732044600@scorpiobooks.co.nz
SUMMARY:Book Launch | The Strange and Unlikely Tale of Montgomery\, the Mysterious Bird of Mystery by Antony Elworthy
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\nABOUT THE BOOK \n\n\nFrom the animator of The Corpse Bride\, Coraline and Isle of Dogs\, comes a hilarious\, illustrated tale about Gramps’s life as a magician. \nGramps had what they call a ‘Chequered Career’ which he insists on regaling to his sceptical grandson. He’s been a stuntman and a deep-sea diver\, but his most exciting\, and discombobulating\, career was when he was a magician. Known as The Astounding Alfredo\, and he became famous throughout the world\, especially for the disappearing trick with his dove – Montgomery\, The Mysterious Bird of Mystery. \nUnfortunately\, Montgomery is not just mysterious\, but malevolent\, envious and ambitious. \nAnd Gramps and Montgomery discover that fame has a way of changing people – and places. \nExpect the unexpected and believe the unbelievable in this hilarious debut novel from acclaimed animator Antony Elworthy. \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nAntony Elworthy is an illustrator\, animator and children’s book author who has worked on critically acclaimed television and Oscar-winning feature film productions around the world. His most recent film credit was Lead Stop Motion Animator on Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio. He was also Lead Animator for Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs and Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie as well as Animator on Coraline and Corpse Bride.  \nAntony lives in Christchurch\, NZ\, where he is Animation Director on the hit preschool TV show Kiri and Lou (starring Jemaine Clement). He is currently Director of Animation on Sauvages\, a new film by Claude Barras.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-the-strange-and-unlikely-tale-of-montgomery-the-mysterious-bird-of-mystery-by-antony-elworthy/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Tile_StrangeAndUnlikely.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20241113T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20241113T200000
DTSTAMP:20260503T113527
CREATED:20241025T004106Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241025T004106Z
UID:10000098-1731519000-1731528000@scorpiobooks.co.nz
SUMMARY:Book Launch | Hotel Theresa
DESCRIPTION: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! \n\nABOUT THE BOOK \nThe Hotel Theresa is a landmark in Harlem\, New York City\, where legendary figures like Josephine Baker\, Duke Ellington\, Malcolm X\, and Muhammad Ali made their New York stay-overs. After visiting this iconic hotel\, poet Doc Drumheller was inspired to write and collect poems based on his travels\, exploring the world as a dual citizen of New Zealand and the USA. \nThe poems in this collection were composed on his journeys in New Zealand\, and throughout the USA\, Asia\, Europe\, and Central America\, where he has represented New Zealand at numerous international poetry festivals as a poet and cultural ambassador. The individual poems have been published in prestigious magazines and anthologies in New Zealand and around the world\, translated into many languages\, and received awards and honours from several international universities. Hotel Theresa features seventy of the published poems from more than one hundred composed between 2011 and 2024. \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nDoc Drumheller is an award-winning poet\, musician\, dramatist\, who has published 11 collections of poetry. His poems have been translated into more than 20 languages. He is the editor and publisher of the New Zealand literary journal Catalyst. He was elected to represent New Zealand on the Executive Board of the World Congress of Poets\, and is the editor in chief of the World Congress of Poets literary journal Fuego. He has represented New Zealand at international poetry festivals all over the world\, and has performed in Cuba\, Lithuania\, Italy\, Hungary\, Bulgaria\, Romania\, Japan\, India\, China\, Nicaragua\, USA\, Mexico\, El Salvador\, Ecuador\, and widely throughout NZ. \nHis previous collection\, Drinking With Li Bai\, 100 Haiku from China and India\, was published\, with a memorable launch at Scorpio Books\, by Cold Hub Press in 2022.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-hotel-theresa/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Tile_HotelTheresa.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20241106T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20241106T200000
DTSTAMP:20260503T113527
CREATED:20241024T233342Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241024T233342Z
UID:10000097-1730914200-1730923200@scorpiobooks.co.nz
SUMMARY:Book Launch | Woolsheds
DESCRIPTION: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! \n\nABOUT THE BOOK \nTowards the end of the nineteenth century\, wool\, mutton and lamb were the staples of the young New Zealand economy. By the 1980s\, the national flock was counted at 75 million sheep\, and wool export returns peaked at $1.8 billion. Now\, however\, the landscape of the farming industry has changed\, and sheep farmers have had to make some tough adaptations\, but it remains vital and important\, and the industry continues to be peopled by some of this country’s most entrepreneurial and agri-science-focused brains. \nThis handsome book\, exquisitely photographed by Jane Ussher\, takes readers to historic sheep stations in the North and South Island\, and explores the rich histories of this key primary industry that are contained in their heritage woolsheds. From the oldest working woolshed in mid-Canterbury to woolsheds rebuilt after earthquakes and sheds built by eminent public figures\, it is a celebration of effort\, industry and tenacity. \n\nABOUT THE AUTHORS \nDr Annette O’Sullivan is a design academic and former senior lecturer in typography at Massey University School of Design. Her doctorate examined the design histories of branding and identity on historic New Zealand sheep stations. She is a London trained typographer and letterpress printer and comes from a background of design practice in publishing\, museum\, and exhibition design. She is a Massey University Honorary Research Associate and member of the International Society of Typographic Designers. \nJane Ussher MNZM is one of New Zealand’s most lauded photographers. Perhaps best known for her photographs for the Listener and\, more recently\, for magazines such as New Zealand House & Garden\, her photographs have also appeared in the high-profile\, award-winning books Coast\, Islands\, Worship; Still Life: Inside the Antarctic Huts of Scott and Shackleton; The New Zealand Horse; Endless Sea; Nature — Stilled; Historic New Zealand Homesteads and Rooms: Portraits of Remarkable New Zealand Interiors.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-woolsheds/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Tile_Woolsheds.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20241030T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20241030T193000
DTSTAMP:20260503T113527
CREATED:20240920T012525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240930T233944Z
UID:10000092-1730309400-1730316600@scorpiobooks.co.nz
SUMMARY:Michael Belgrave | Author Talk
DESCRIPTION:Scorpio Books and Massey University Press warmly invite you to an evening with Professor Michael Belgrave\, author of new book Becoming Aotearoa\, and Associate Professor Lyndon Fraser. All welcome\, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP and pre-order your book today! \n\nABOUT THE BOOK \nIn the first major national history of Aotearoa New Zealand to be published for 20 years\, Professor Michael Belgrave advances the notion that New Zealand’s two peoples — tangata whenua and subsequent migrants — have together built an open\, liberal society based on a series of social contracts. Frayed though they may sometimes be\, these contracts have created a country that is distinct. This engaging new look at our history examines how. \n\nABOUT AUTHOR \n\nMichael Belgrave joined Massey University in 1993 on the opening of the university’s Albany campus. A historian and previously a research manager at the Waitangi Tribunal\, he taught in the social policy and social work programme until 2014\, as well as Māori studies and history. In 1995 he began a long involvement with social workers and schools\, managing and evaluating Massey University’s pilot of the programme\, and becoming the leading advisor and evaluator in the development of a government pilot and in the generalisation of the programme throughout New Zealand. The programme is now provided to all decile 1–3 schools. \nHe continued to maintain a strong interest in Treaty of Waitangi research and settlements\, providing substantial research reports into a wide number of the Waitangi Tribunal’s district inquiries. More recently\, he has been heavily involved in assisting iwi in negotiating the historical aspects of Treaty settlements. He has published widely on Treaty and Māori history\, including being lead editor of Waitangi Revisited: Perspectives on the Treaty of Waitangi (Oxford University Press). He received a Marsden Fund award in 2015 for study into the re-examination of the causes of the New Zealand wars of the 1860s.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/becoming-aotearoa-book-launch/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Tile_BecomingAotearoa.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20241029T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20241029T193000
DTSTAMP:20260503T113527
CREATED:20241001T000145Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241002T004333Z
UID:10000094-1730223000-1730230200@scorpiobooks.co.nz
SUMMARY:Book Launch | The Gavin Bishop Treasury by Gavin Bishop
DESCRIPTION:Scorpio Books and Penguin Random House New Zealand warmly welcome you to the launch of The Gavin Bishop Treasury: 10 Favourite Fairy Stories and Original Tales by Gavin Bishop. All welcome\, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP and pre-order your book today! \n\nABOUT THE BOOK \nComprising over two hundred pages of fabulous storytelling and stunning artwork\, children will be spellbound by this beautiful hardback gift treasury of ten favourite fairy tales and original stories by the acclaimed Gavin Bishop. \nBetween the covers you will find four of Gavin’s delightful original tales\, featuring such beloved characters as drab Mrs McGinty\, who becomes a sensation when a fast-growing plant takes off in her yard\, along with a rainbow-chasing sheep\, a little rabbit who longs to visit the sea\, and a bear who decides he can go without his winter sleep. \nThere are also six of Gavin’s delicious\, humour-filled fairy tale retellings\, including crafty Mr Fox with an empty food sack to fill\, the gloriously illustrated Three Little Pigs\, and Rats!\, in which Mrs Polly Piper\, vexed by an infestation of cheeky rodents\, accepts help from the dashing\, accordion-playing Rapscallion Claw. \nThis beautiful gift collection will entrance families of all ages and sizes and is the ideal inducement to snuggle up and read together. \nThe 10 gorgeous stories included in this treasury are: Mrs McGinty and the Bizarre Plant; Bidibidi; Mr Fox; Chicken Licken; A Apple Pie; The Three Little Pigs; Little Rabbit and the Sea; Stay Awake\, Bear!; The Three Billy Goats Gruff; and Rats! \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nGavin Bishop (Tainui\, Ngāti Awa) is a highly acclaimed children’s book author and illustrator of more than 70 books\, whose work ranges from original stories to retellings of Māori myths\, European fairy stories\, and nursery rhymes. \nBorn in Invercargill\, he spent his childhood in the remote railway settlement of Kingston on the shores of Lake Wakatipu. Studying under Russell Clark and Rudi Gopas\, Gavin graduated from the Canterbury University School of Fine Arts with an honours degree in painting. He taught art at Linwood High School and at Christ’s College in Christchurch. \nAmong the numerous fellowships and national book prizes that have been awarded to Gavin throughout his career\, highlights are his Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement – Non-fiction in 2019; his Te Waka Toi Ngā Tohu ā Tā Kingi Ihaka/Sir Kingi Ihaka Award in 2018 recognising lifetime contribution to strengthening Māori art and culture through his children’s books; The Arts Foundation’s Mallinson Rendel Illustrators Award in 2013; and the 2000 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal for lifetime achievement and his distinguished contribution to children’s literature in New Zealand. Gavin was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2013\, and President of Honour of the NZ Society of Authors. \nGavin lives and works in Christchurch\, New Zealand. See more about him and his work at www.gavinbishop.com.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-the-gavin-bishop-treasury-by-gavin-bishop/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Tile_GavinBishopTreasury.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20241023T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20241023T193000
DTSTAMP:20260503T113527
CREATED:20240920T004448Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240930T234117Z
UID:10000091-1729704600-1729711800@scorpiobooks.co.nz
SUMMARY:Monty Soutar | Author Talk
DESCRIPTION:Scorpio Books and Bateman Books warmly welcome you to an author talk starring Monty Soutar to celebrate the release of the second instalment in the Kāwai series\, Kāwai: Tree of Nourishment.  \nAll welcome\, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP and pre-order your book in hardback or paperback format today. \n\nABOUT THE BOOK \nIt’s 1818 on the East Coast of Te Ika-a-Māui\, New Zealand. Hine-aute\, granddaughter of the legendary warrior Kaitanga\, is fleeing through the bush\, a precious yet gruesome memento contained in her fishing net. What follows is a gripping tale of a people on the cusp of profound change that is destined to reverberate through many generations to come. \nThe Europeans have arrived\, and they’ve brought guns and foreign diseases\, ushering in a whole new world of terror and trouble. They’ve also brought a new religion\, which will cause Māori to question everything they had believed to be true. Hine and her sons Ipumare and Uha are caught in the crossfire of change\, creating fractures in their close familial bonds and undermining everything they hold dear. \nFrom raids by musket-wielding war parties to heightened internecine warfare; from the influx of whalers\, traders and Christian missionaries to the signing of The Treaty of Waitangi\, Kāwai: Tree of Nourishment strikes hard and deep into the heart of the initial impact of colonisation on Māori\, and is guaranteed to leave readers stunned. \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nDr. Monty Soutar (Ngāti Porou\, Ngāti Awa\, Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki\, Ngāti Kahungunu) has worked as a Senior Historian for the Ministry of Culture and Heritage\, Director of the Tairāwhiti Museum in Gisborne and as the World War One Historian in Residence at Auckland War Memorial Museum. In 2015 he was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori and historical research. He continues to serve on the Waitangi Tribunal. \nDr. Soutar is the author of Whitiki Whiti Whiti E! Māori in the First World War and Nga Tama Toa – The Price of Citizenship: C Company 28 (Māori) Battalion 1939-1945. In 2021 he was awarded the Creative New Zealand Michael King Writer’s Fellowship to write the Kāwai series. Monty lives in Gisborne with his wife and youngest daughter.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/kawai-tree-of-nourishment-author-talk/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Tile_KawaiTreeOfNourishment.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20241017T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20241017T200000
DTSTAMP:20260503T113527
CREATED:20240904T030756Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240924T024547Z
UID:10000089-1729186200-1729195200@scorpiobooks.co.nz
SUMMARY:Wild Walks Aotearoa | Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Scorpio Books and Penguin Random House New Zealand warmly welcome you to the launch of Wild Walks Aotearoa by Hannah-Rose Watt. All welcome\, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP and pre-order your book today! \nWild Walks Aotearoa is an informative\, inspiring and visually stunning guide to tramping in New Zealand\, for walkers of all levels and experiences. Featuring 59 walks across New Zealand’s North and South islands\, this practical guide is for anyone keen to explore Aotearoa’s wilderness on foot. Containing key info about essential gear; safety on the tracks; how to read topographical maps and trail markers; hut and track etiquette; advice for solo and female trampers; and details and logistics for each walk\, this book will be your new tramping companion. \nPacked with well-trodden and lesser-known walks – from quickies while on a roadie\, to hikes for tykes and multi-day journeys – you’ll find options for all ages\, fitness and experience levels. Lavishly illustrated with photographs of New Zealand’s picturesque landscapes\, Wild Walks Aotearoa is a must-own\, whether for inspiration on your coffee table or planning your next adventure. \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n\nHannah-Rose Watt is a passionate and experienced tramper\, mountaineer and adventurer. She grew up tramping and camping with her family in the rugged beauty of New Zealand’s South Island\, and she has a deep-rooted connection to the wilderness. \nAlongside her professional work in the outdoor industry\, including for DOC and Macpac\, Hannah dedicates her time to exploring Aotearoa\, leading tramping trips\, educating new trampers\, and fostering safe and inclusive outdoor experiences through her wild social media channels. Her mission is to inspire others to explore enchanting landscapes and to foster an appreciation for the natural world. \nHannah lives and works in Ōtautahi Christchurch.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/wild-walks-aotearoa-book-launch/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Tile_NZ_WildWalksAotearoa_BookLaunch_Assets_1080X1080.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20241010T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20241010T193000
DTSTAMP:20260503T113527
CREATED:20240918T225453Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240918T225453Z
UID:10000090-1728581400-1728588600@scorpiobooks.co.nz
SUMMARY:Lily\, Oh Lily | Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Scorpio Books and Canterbury University Press warmly welcome you to the launch of Lily\, Oh Lily: Searching for a Nazi ghost by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman. All welcome\, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP and pre-order your book today. \nLily Hasenburg was just such a figure in Holman’s growing years. She was whispered into his ear by grandmother Eunice – in memorable stories of her older sister\, who married and moved to Germany at the turn of the 20th century\, and was later caught up in the Nazi web spun by Adolf Hitler. Unable to shake loose this story\, Holman pursued her to Berlin\, Hamburg and Dresden. Here\, we have an account of his pilgrimage; the kind of family history we might bury\, and forget – to our loss. \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nJeffrey Paparoa Holman is an acclaimed poet\, historian and memoirist. His poetry has been shortlisted for the New Zealand Book Awards; his family memoir The Lost Pilot (Penguin\, 2013) was warmly received in Aotearoa and overseas. Best of Both Worlds: The story of Elsdon Best and Tutakangahau (Penguin\, 2010) was short-listed for the Ernest Scott Prize (History) in Australia. Since retirement from his role as senior adjunct fellow at the University of Canterbury\, he has taught creative writing in both primary and high school programmes.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/lily-oh-lily-book-launch/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Tile_LilyOhLily.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240921T150000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240921T170000
DTSTAMP:20260503T113527
CREATED:20240827T211431Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240827T211431Z
UID:10000087-1726930800-1726938000@scorpiobooks.co.nz
SUMMARY:Sylvia Tour | Just Janie & Sig Wilder
DESCRIPTION:Two modern-day troubadours brought together by the poetry of two Sylvia’s. \nJust Janie and Sig Wilder are banding together with their new double single ‘Sylvia’. Fusing nostalgic Laurel Canyon folk and alt-country grit onstage in a ‘songwriter rounds’ format\, they will share the songs and stories of the music that made them. \nSig and Janie met earlier this year in Te Whanganui-a-Tara and realized they’d both written songs titled ‘Sylvia’\, influenced by poetry collections from Sylvia Plath and Sylvia Legris. After performing together\, the duo knew there was something special when their voices merged. Now they’re bringing that magic to the stage. \n‘Sylvia’ includes two tracks\, written individually and recorded together. \nSylvia I\, written and composed by Just Janie\, responds to reading Sylvia Plath’s poetry collection Ariel. After picking up the collection at Scorpio Books in Ōtautahi and feeling drawn in from the two cover lines: ‘I rise with my red hair\, and eat men like air’\, Janie was floored by the collection. This is a song to deal with the trauma of reading Sylvia Plath. \nSylvia II\, written and composed by Sig Wilder\, is a response to reading Sylvia Legris’s poetry collection Garden Physic. With each page Sig\, who is also a gardener\, discovered a wealth of complex plant references and botanical histories. He was inspired by the botanical glossolalia seemingly of Sylvia’s own invention and the collection’s ability to create music from language. This is song is an exploration of the language of plants and the haunting relationship between poet and reader. \nDrawing inspiration from the folk scene of the late sixties and early seventies\, Central Otago-born artist Just Janie has a crisp and tender style\, creating worlds for listeners to melt into. Raised in the American Midwest and now living under the Southern Cross\, Sig Wilder’s music is a journey through the hills and plains of Aotearoa\, weaving the nostalgia and sorrow of Americana into the fabric of Aotearoa’s musical landscape. \n\nThis gig occurs simultaneously with regular Saturday afternoon shopping conditions and is free to attend.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/sylvia-tour-just-janie-sig-wilder/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Sylvia_WebsiteTile_Event-1.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240920T180000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240920T200000
DTSTAMP:20260503T113527
CREATED:20240826T230026Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240823T000614Z
UID:10000086-1726855200-1726862400@scorpiobooks.co.nz
SUMMARY:Make It Make Sense | Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Scorpio Books\, Moa Press and Shit You Should Care About warmly welcome you to the launch of Make It Make Sense by Lucy Blakiston and Bel Hawkins. Registrations are essential for this event\, so please send in your RSVP and reserve your spot. Pre-order your book today! And now\, a message from the authors: \nSOUTH ISLAND BABIES WE ARE COMING TO YOU! We are so goddamn excited to be launching our first!! ever!! book!! and to get to come and launch it at one of our fave bookstores: Scorpio Books!! \nWe couldn’t think of a better way to send this thing out into the world than with a bunch of our favourite worn-out women (or worn-out people)\, hanging out and trying to make sense of all our burning questions about the world\, ourselves\, whether we hate our jobs or just need a bit of sleep\, and whether good love is really coming for us or if we’ll be stuck in situationships until we die. \nWhere? Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\nWhen? Friday September 20th\, 6-8pm\nWhat can you expect? An evening of love\, grief\, girlhood\, friendship\, but mostly\, a whole lot of fucking fun and phoenixing <3 \nCan’t wait to see your cute face!! \nLuce & Bel xxxxxx
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/make-it-make-sense-book-launch/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Tile_MakeItMakeSense.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240826T180000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240826T193000
DTSTAMP:20260503T113527
CREATED:20240718T021118Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240731T002556Z
UID:10000085-1724695200-1724700600@scorpiobooks.co.nz
SUMMARY:Author Talk | Shain Shapiro
DESCRIPTION:RDU\, Scorpio Books and Auckland UNESCO City of Music warmly welcome you to an author talk featuring Shain Shapiro. Shain is touring Aotearoa New Zealand in support of his latest book This Must Be The Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better. This event will include book signings\, readings and discussion. Special guests to be announced. \nAll welcome\, refreshments provided. Bookings essential. Arrive from 5.30pm for a 6pm start. \n\nABOUT THE BOOK: \nThis Must Be the Place introduces and examines music’s relationship to cities. Not the influence cities have on music\, but the powerful impact music can have on how cities are developed\, built\, managed and governed.Told in an accessible way through personal stories from cities around the world — including London\, Melbourne\, Nashville\, Austin and Zurich — This Must Be the Place takes a truly global perspective on the ways music is integral to everyday life but neglected in public policy.Arguing for the transformative role of artists and musicians in a post-pandemic world\, This Must Be The Place not only examines the powerful impact music can have on our cities\, but also serves as a how-to guide and toolkit for music-lovers\, artists and activists everywhere to begin the process of reinventing the communities they live in. \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \nShain Shapiro holds a PhD from the University of London and lives in East London. He is a globally recognised thought leader at the convergence of music\, culture and urban policy. This is showcased in his debut book\, This Must Be The Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better\, released on Repeater Books in September 2023.  He is also an accomplished academic\, having authored courses for the Global Leaders Institute and Berklee College of Music and is also the co-founder of Unison Rights\, a new copyright management entity in Spain.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/author-talk-shain-shapiro/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CHCH.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240808T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240808T190000
DTSTAMP:20260503T113527
CREATED:20240711T232952Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240730T222930Z
UID:10000083-1723138200-1723143600@scorpiobooks.co.nz
SUMMARY:Book Launch | 'A Man Holds a Fish' by Glenn Busch
DESCRIPTION:Te Papa Press and Scorpio Books warmly welcome you to the launch of Glenn Busch‘s new book\, A Man Holds a Fish. \nAll welcome\, refreshments provided. Arrive from 5.30pm for a 6pm start. \nThis event is free to attend – please RSVP by filling in this Google Form here or by going to tinyurl.com/ScorpioBooksRSVP. \n\nABOUT THE BOOK: \nSelected by the legendary photographer himself\, the 79 extraordinary images in Glenn Busch’s A Man Holds A Fish cement and celebrate his reputation as one of New Zealand’s most important photographers. Almost other-worldy\, and striking in their humanity and emotional affect\, the images in this resonant book bear returning to again and again. \nBusch’s work secured public notice in 1984 with the publication of Working Men. As art writer Peter Ireland observes in his essay\, ‘In the early 1970s . . . the social documentary tradition was the reigning\, respectable approach\, and Busch’s work remains foundational\, even after half a century retaining a vividness and force in its resistance to any tendency to idealise in his portraiture\, as this book so clearly attests.’ \nA handsome\, large-format book\, beautifully designed by Seven\, this book serves as both an introduction to the work of a hugely influential and widely regarded figure in photography in Aotearoa New Zealand and a celebration of his place in our art history. \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \nGlenn Busch\, best known for his intimate\, thought-provoking portraits and captivating social documentary work\, was born in Auckland in 1948. He left school at 14 and spent his early years working as a manual labourer in many different places around Australia and New Zealand. His passion for photography began with the viewing of the work of Hungarian photographer Brassaï and his understanding of the medium was helped through a chance meeting with John B Turner. \nThroughout his career\, Busch has focused on capturing the essence of daily life\, often exploring themes of community\, work and identity. His influential projects include Working Men\, You Are My Darling Zita\, The Man With No Arms and Other Stories\, My Place and the ongoing Place In Time documentary project. \nBusch has also contributed to New Zealand’s photographic education with his founding of the influential Auckland photography gallery\, Snaps\, and through his many years of teaching at the School of Fine Arts\, University of Canterbury Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha. \nPeter Ireland is a well-known painter\, curator and art writer with a deep interest in photography inter alia.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-a-man-holds-a-fish-by-glenn-busch/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/WebsiteTile_Event_AManHoldsAFish1.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240730T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240730T200000
DTSTAMP:20260503T113527
CREATED:20240701T015225Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240722T214153Z
UID:10000080-1722360600-1722369600@scorpiobooks.co.nz
SUMMARY:Book Launch | 'The Mess We Made' by Megan O'Neill
DESCRIPTION:Please join Scorpio Books and Moa Press for the launch of local author Megan O’Neill’s debut novel The Mess We Made. \nAll welcome\, light refreshments provided. Arrive from 5.30pm for a 6pm start. \nThis event is free to attend – please RSVP by filling in this Google Form here or by going to tinyurl.com/ScorpioBooksRSVP. \n\nABOUT THE BOOK: \nThe Mess We Made is an addictive will-they-won’t-they debut love story about whether there can ever be a second chance for your first love. \nQuin and Henry meet as kids and quickly become inseparable… They are high-school sweethearts until one night\, one bad decision shatters everything. Years later\, Quin’s stuck working at a local takeaway. She’s not spoken to Henry since he left town nine years ago. She barely talks to her twin brother Josh\, and their mum has a degenerative disease – Quin’s dealing with the fact that she might get it too. \nWhen Henry suddenly returns – and keeps showing up at work to walk Quin home – she feels herself falling all over again. But his reappearance triggers the secret she’s kept buried for the past nine years\, and she doesn’t know if she can trust Henry not to disappear on her when he learns the truth. \nIf you love the millennial angst of Normal People and the addictive appeal of It Ends With Us and Daisy Jones and the Six\, you will be captivated by Quin and the enigmatic Henry. \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \nMegan O’Neill grew up in the small rural town of Waiau Pa\, overlooking the Manukau Harbour in Auckland. She now lives in Christchurch\, enjoying the wild nature on her doorstep and everything else the South Island has to offer. In her debut novel The Mess We Made\, she was inspired to write characters who were messy\, raw and real.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-the-mess-we-made-by-megan-oneill/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/The-Mess-We-Made_FB-IG-tile-v2.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240710T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240710T190000
DTSTAMP:20260503T113527
CREATED:20240618T013231Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240619T011755Z
UID:10000076-1720632600-1720638000@scorpiobooks.co.nz
SUMMARY:Author Talk | Laurence Fearnley
DESCRIPTION:Scorpio Books and Penguin Random House New Zealand warmly welcome you to an author talk featuring Laurence Fearnley in conversation with Morrin Rout.  \nAll welcome\, light refreshments provided. Arrive from 5.30pm for a 6pm start. \nThis event is free to attend – please RSVP by filling in this Google Form here or by going to tinyurl.com/ScorpioBooksRSVP. \n– \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nFollowing a disastrous family holiday\, Libby and Curtis make a promise: If they ever visit the West Coast of the South Island again\, it will be to stay at the majestic Grand Glacier Hotel. \nTwenty years later\, Libby is recovering from cancer and the couple finally return to the resort. Except the glacier has retreated\, nothing goes to plan\, and after a storm separates her from Curtis\, Libby finds herself alone in the isolated hotel. \nDisappointed\, she tentatively begins to explore her surroundings. Could the inaccessible hotel and its curious collection of staff and guests hold the key to Libby reconnecting with the person she once was? \nAt the Grand Glacier Hotel is award-winning novelist Laurence Fearnley’s third novel responding to the five senses. Drawing on a varied soundscape\, this tangible\, moving portrait of physical and emotional recovery offers a way forward\, one hopeful step at a time. \n– \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \nLaurence Fearnley is an award-winning novelist. Her novel The Hut Builder won the fiction category of the 2011 NZ Post Book Awards. In 2014 her novel Reach was longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards\, and\, in 2008\, Edwin and Matilda was runner-up in the fiction category of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Her second novel\, Room\, was shortlisted for the 2001 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. In 2004 Fearnley was awarded the Artists to Antarctica Fellowship and in 2007 the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. In 2016 she won the NZSA/Janet Frame Memorial Award and in 2017 she was the joint winner of the Landfall essay competition. She was named a New Zealand Arts Foundation Laureate in 2019. She lives in Dunedin. \n\n\n– \n\nABOUT THE CHAIR: \nMorrin Rout has spent over 25 years organising literary events and festivals and producing and presenting book programmes on national and local radio. She is the former Director of the Hagley Writers Institute and is a current member of the WORD festival trust board.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/author-talk-laurence-fearnley/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/WebsiteTile_Event_LaurenceFearnley-1.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240708T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240708T190000
DTSTAMP:20260503T113527
CREATED:20240605T005714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240605T005714Z
UID:10000070-1720459800-1720465200@scorpiobooks.co.nz
SUMMARY:Book Launch | 'Power to Win: The Living Wage Movement in Aotearoa New Zealand' by Lyndy McIntyre
DESCRIPTION:Lyndy McIntyre\, Living Wage Aotearoa New Zealand\, Scorpio Books and Otago University Press warmly invite you to the launch of Power to Win: The Living Wage Movement in Aotearoa New Zealand by Lyndy McIntyre. To be launched by Rebecca Macfie. \nAll welcome\, light refreshments provided. Arrive from 5.30pm for a 6pm start. \nThis event is free to attend – please RSVP by filling in this Google Form here or by going to tinyurl.com/ScorpioBooksRSVP. \n– \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nLyndy McIntyre’s Power to Win tells the story of the living wage movement in Aotearoa New Zealand. The living wage movement is grounded in the fundamental belief that all New Zealanders should be paid enough to meet their needs\, enjoy their lives and participate in society. Yet\, from the 1980s\, with the gap between rich and poor growing and poverty increasing\, more and more workers could no longer afford to aspire to this quality of life. The question of how to rectify resultant social inequities was becoming urgent. \nIn Power to Win\, McIntyre documents the history of the Living Wage Movement Aotearoa New Zealand from these roots to the present day. This is the story of the movement’s efforts to lift the wages of the most disadvantaged people in our workforce – women\, Māori\, Pacific Peoples\, migrants and refugees\, and young workers. McIntyre provides a window into the lives of these workers and those committed to ending in-work poverty: the activists\, faith groups\, unions and community organisations who come together to tilt the axis of power from employers to low-wage workers. \nPower to Win is the record of an extraordinarily successful movement. It is a celebration of hope and an inspiring read. This book shows that communities have power and that change can happen. \n– \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \nLyndy McIntyre grew up in the 50s and 60s in a time of relative prosperity in Aotearoa New Zealand. In the 70s she became increasingly active in left/progressive issues and her community. Lyndy learnt about unions on the job as a union delegate in the printing industry through the 1980s. In 1990 she started a 30-year working life in unions\, with a brief stint as a parliamentary press secretary. In 2007 she was elected to Kāpiti Coast District Council. She served one term and decided that union work was more worthwhile. In 2015\, she became one of two paid community organisers in Living Wage Movement Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2020\, she retired from her community organising role and began to write this story of the movement.\n\nFind out more at oup.nz/power-to-win
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-power-to-win-by-lyndy-mcintyre/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Event_Tile_PowerToWin.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240701T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240701T190000
DTSTAMP:20260503T113527
CREATED:20240605T005011Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240605T005011Z
UID:10000069-1719855000-1719860400@scorpiobooks.co.nz
SUMMARY:Book Launch | 'Rere Takitahi/Flying Solo' edited by JCL Purchase and AJ Woolf
DESCRIPTION:Olearia Press and Scorpio Books invite you to celebrate the launch of a new anthology of collected writings on the experience of solo parenthood and differently-structured families in Aotearoa New Zealand. This event will feature readings from contributors – lineup TBA.\n \nAll welcome\, light refreshments provided. Arrive from 5.30pm for a 6pm start. \nThis event is free to attend – please RSVP by filling in this Google Form here or by going to tinyurl.com/ScorpioBooksRSVP. \n– \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nIncluding over fifty writers from diverse ethnic and demographic communities (representing parents/grandparents/matua\, offspring/rangatahi\, educators\, doctors\, social workers\, researchers\, creatives and other disciplines) Rere Takitahi/Flying Solo “eviscerates” the lived experience of an often neglected and misunderstood sector of society\, focusing attention on aspects of their lives that will resonate with readers who have experienced similar. \nFrom Katherine Mansfield’s sinister story about an abandoned\, single mother trying to survive in early 19th century rural New Zealand\, to Jess Young’s moving poem about wet nappies hanging throughout the house while her milk lets down during her WINZ appointment\, to Fiona Farrell’s intellectually disabled Skinny Louie\, who births her child all alone in the orchid house at the Dunedin Botanic Gardens\, to Alexandra Balm’s mother and son migrating to New Zealand from eastern Europe\, to Michael Botur’s solo father going to great lengths to support his little girl\, Rere Takitahi/Flying Solo explores the fates of alternatively-structured families and single parents through short and micro-fiction\, essay\, memoir\, poetry and reportage. \n– \n\nABOUT THE EDITORS: \nJCL Purchase (aka Jenny Purchase) is a senior secondary teacher of English\,  French\, and ESOL but has also taught an eclectic range of subjects in the tertiary sector. Possessing extensive academic and business writing experience\, since completing a master’s degree in creative writing at AUT in 2010\, and a further Post-Graduate Diploma in Communication Studies in 2011\, she has branched increasingly into creative writing\, scriptwriting\, reviewing and article writing. Some of her work has been published in journals\, publications\, anthologies\, and online\, and she released a collection of short stories\, Transit Lounge in 2022 (Lasavia Publishing). One of Jenny’s short stories received Creative New Zealand funding for a short film. She has also received special mentions in the Katherine Mansfield Short Story Competition and the Aeon Competition. She is currently working on an epic historical novel in the classic tradition and a memoir/philosophical reflection on her life and times. She campaigns tirelessly for magazines\, newspapers\, and periodicals to publish more short fiction and poetry. \nAJ (Angela) Woolf is a writer and artist living in Marlborough. She has published short stories and currently has four novels ready for publication. Several of Angela’s short stories and novels have reached the finals in competitions such as the Michael Gifkins Prize\, and she received third place in the Zephyr Short Story Competition in 2020. \nBoth editors are former solo parents and members of alternative families.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-rere-takitahi-flying-solo-edited-by-jcl-purchase-and-aj-woolf/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Event_Tile_RereTakitahiFlyingSolo.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240626T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240626T190000
DTSTAMP:20260503T113527
CREATED:20240523T213701Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240605T004150Z
UID:10000066-1719423000-1719428400@scorpiobooks.co.nz
SUMMARY:Book Launch | 'Hopurangi—Songcatcher' by Robert Sullivan
DESCRIPTION:Auckland University Press and Scorpio Books invite you to celebrate the launch of Robert Sullivan‘s new poetry collection Hopurangi—Songcatcher. Inspired by the cyclical energies of the Maramataka\, these poems see the poet re-finding himself and his world – in the mātauranga of his kuia from the Ngāti Hau and Ngāti Kaharau hapū of Ngāpuhi; in his mother’s stories from his Ngāti Manu hapū at Kāretu; in the singing and storytelling at Puketeraki Marae\, home of his father’s people of Kāti Huirapa\, Kāti Māmoe\, Waitaha and Kāi Tahu Whānui in Te Tai o Āraiteuru; and in the fellowship of friends on Facebook. \nAll welcome\, light refreshments provided. Arrive from 5.30pm for a 6pm start. \nTo be launched by Anna Jackson. \nThis event is free to attend – please RSVP by filling in this Google Form here or by going to tinyurl.com/ScorpioBooksRSVP. \n– \nABOUT THE BOOK: \n“Rich\, accessible and fun\, intense and moving\, Hopurangi—Songcatcher presents poems charting the increasing harmonisation of a Māori literary intellect with his world in cultural\, spiritual and physical terms. This harmonisation is focused through his intensifying connection with the Maramataka\, the whenua he inhabits\, his Māori community (online and in real life)\, and his own body. The poems are extraordinarily appealing – technically tight\, warm and emotionally moving.” — Tina Makereti\, Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington \n– \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \nRobert Sullivan (Ngāpuhi\, Kāi Tahu) is the author of nine books of poetry as well as a graphic novel and an award-winning book of Māori legends for children. He co-edited\, with Albert Wendt and Reina Whaitiri\, the anthologies of Polynesian poetry in English\, Whetu Moana (2002) and Mauri Ola (2010)\, and an anthology of Māori poetry with Reina Whaitiri\, Puna Wai Kōrero (2014)\, all published by Auckland University Press. Among many awards\, he received the 2022 Lauris Edmond Memorial Award for a distinguished contribution to New Zealand poetry. He is associate professor of creative writing at Massey University and has taught previously at Manukau Institute of Technology and the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. His most recent collection was Tūnui | Comet (Auckland University Press\, 2022).
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-hopurangi-songcatcher-by-robert-sullivan/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Hopurangi_socials_cover.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240613T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240613T190000
DTSTAMP:20260503T113527
CREATED:20240516T015945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240604T234944Z
UID:10000065-1718299800-1718305200@scorpiobooks.co.nz
SUMMARY:Book Launch | 'The End of the Beginning' by Jenna Heller
DESCRIPTION:AT THE BAY | I TE KOKORU and Scorpio Books invite you to the launch of Jenna Heller’s new book\, The End of the Beginning.\n \nAll welcome\, light refreshments provided. Arrive from 5.30pm for a 6pm start. \nThis event is free to attend – please RSVP by filling in this Google Form here or by going to tinyurl.com/ScorpioBooksRSVP. \n– \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nA tornado rips the roof from a strip mall. A girl is scorched by her own reflection. A daughter enacts revenge for her mother’s grotesquely inappropriate remarks. An unwell man prepares to leave his home and community for the last time. A woman contemplates her impending transformation into a sea creature\, while another\, gifted with second sight\, finds that ghosts start to outnumber the living. \nWith plots that hinge on moments of unease\, betrayal\, or violence\, these small stories focus on becoming and unforeseen departures. Ranging from North America to Aotearoa\, they move through the captured time of childhood memory to the vastness of geological time as experienced by an escaping moon\, and often\, they lean into a queer and ecologically-inflected Gothic. \n“Brilliant\, tender and spare.” – Frankie McMillan \n“With a delicate but strong sense of narrative voice\, Jenna Heller has seized the flash form and made it her own.” – Tina Shaw \n“These spare yet sumptuous stories ripple with wonder and warmth. They are also ruthless. Nothing under the sun escapes Jenna Heller’s sharp-eyed perception. The End of the Beginning is flash fiction at its finest.” – Michelle Ross \n“These small stories riff on genre\, but often lean into a dark humour that scratches at the unease in human relationships with other humans and with the environment\, like a succession of brutal jokes. Jenna Heller is attentive to the ‘suitcase behind the smile’\, to life as it is lived and its multiple alternate personalities.” – Alison Glenny \n– \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \nJenna Heller was the joint-winner of the Meniscus Australian CLA Best Prose Prize 2019\, shortlisted for the Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing 2019\, runner-up of the North & South Short\, Short Story Contest 2019\, winner of National Flash Fiction Day NZ 2020\, runner-up for the Caselberg International Poetry Prize 2021\, and was also selected for inclusion in the international anthology Best Small Fictions 2020\, 2021\, and 2023.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-end-of-the-beginning-by-jenna-heller/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Event_Tile_EndOfTheBeginning.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240611T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240611T190000
DTSTAMP:20260503T113527
CREATED:20240513T231053Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240605T234950Z
UID:10000064-1718127000-1718132400@scorpiobooks.co.nz
SUMMARY:Book Launch | 'Ans Westra: A Life in Photography' by Paul Moon
DESCRIPTION:Massey University Press and Scorpio Books invite you to the launch of Paul Moon’s new book\, Ans Westra: A Life in Photography. \nAll welcome\, light refreshments provided. Arrive from 5.30pm for a 6pm start. \nThis event is free to attend – please RSVP here. \n– \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nThe photographer Ans Westra\, who died in 2023\, took hundreds of thousands of images over her long career. Together\, those images constitute what is arguably a photo album of Aotearoa. Her dedication and determination sometimes came at a cost but she was focused and driven\, overcoming a difficult childhood in the Netherlands and later complex adult relationships to forge her own path. Warm\, engaging and sympathetic\, this richly illustrated biography interrogates her remarkable – and at times controversial – practice and a life that always put photography first. \n– \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \nDr Paul Moon ONZM is a professor of history at Auckland University of Technology\, where he has taught since 1993. He is the author of many books\, including biographies of James Busby\, William Hobson\, Robert FitzRoy\, and the Ngāpuhi rangatira Hōne Heke and Hōne Heke Ngāpua. In 2003\, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society at University College\, London. Paul lives in Auckland.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/book-launch-ans-westra-by-paul-moon/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Event_Tile_AnsWestra.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240604T180000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240604T193000
DTSTAMP:20260503T113527
CREATED:20240403T030925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240403T033034Z
UID:10000060-1717524000-1717529400@scorpiobooks.co.nz
SUMMARY:Scorpio Books Club | June | 'My Friends' by Hisham Matar
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 Scorpio Books Club. \nOn the first Tuesday of each month\, we meet discuss our previous Book of the Month – so in June\, we’ll be talking about our May book\, My Friends by Hisham Matar . \nWhen: Tuesday 7th May\, 6pm – 7.30pm\nWhere: Scorpio Books\nTickets: $10 per person per month \n  \nYour ticket includes: \n\nAn email with a selection of reviews and questions a few days prior to get the ideas flowing. (Not required reading – just there if you’re keen.)\nDrinks\, nibbles and facilitated discussion on the night\, plus Bel and Ray’s other recommended reads for the month.\nAfter hours browsing time\, with 10% off all full-priced purchases on the night.\nA follow up email that includes all books mentioned on the night (so you can add them to your TBR pile!)\n\n  \nIf you have any questions about the Scorpio Books Club\, please email bookclub@scorpiobooks.co.nz. \n* Cancellation policy: tickets can be cancelled until 9am on the day by emailing bookclub@scorpiobooks.co.nz. The ticket price cannot be refunded\, but transferred to the next Book Club session\, or to store credit that will never expire.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/scorpio-books-club-june-my-friends-by-hisham-matar/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Website-Event-Banner-Books-Club.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240531T090000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240609T170000
DTSTAMP:20260503T113527
CREATED:20240528T050757Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240528T050757Z
UID:10000068-1717146000-1717952400@scorpiobooks.co.nz
SUMMARY:Annual Sale
DESCRIPTION:Terms and conditions \n\nOur Annual Sale runs from Friday 31st May until Sunday 9th June.\nSelected titles from all departments are marked down by 50-70%\nIn-store only\nNo holds\, returns or exchanges available on sale items\nLoyalty card stamps apply to full-priced items only\, not sale items
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/annual-sale/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Annual-Sale-2024-IG-Tile-.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240509T173000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240509T190000
DTSTAMP:20260503T113527
CREATED:20240409T035033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240409T035033Z
UID:10000061-1715275800-1715281200@scorpiobooks.co.nz
SUMMARY:Author Talk | 'The Back Fix' by Antony Bush
DESCRIPTION:Join us\, author Antony Bush and specialist Spinal and Orthopaedic Surgeon Kris Dalzell to discuss The Back Fix\, a comprehensive and research-based self-help book for back pain. Audience Q&A time included. \nAll welcome\, light refreshments provided. Arrive from 5.30pm for a 6pm start. \nThis event is free to attend – please RSVP by filling in this Google Form here or by going to tinyurl.com/ScorpioBooksRSVP. \n– \nABOUT THE BOOK: \nA comprehensive ‘how-to’ for all back pain sufferers. Includes the 10 ‘Back Facts’ researchers want us all to know. The common back pain myths and misconceptions. The importance of outlook\, mood and thought processes. Learn how to tailor your lifestyle. Use movement and mindfulness as a way back to enjoying a pain-free and self-empowered life. \n– \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \nAntony has treated Olympic gold medallist rowers\, alpine skiers\, members of the All Blacks\, ITU World Championship Triathletes\, and World Champion curlers. But he is just as happy helping keen weekend warriors and members of the general public. Antony also has a special interest in corporate health and wellness and is passionate about getting people away from their smartphones and computer screens and moving about in our great outdoors. He is a keen multi-sporter and Coast-to-Coaster. \n– \nABOUT THE CHAIR: \nKris Dalzell is a specialist Spinal and Orthopaedic Surgeon. He completed his medical and specialist training in New Zealand and further Spine and Arthroplasty sub-specialty training in Canada and Australia. He specializes in complex surgery of the spine\, joint replacement surgery and surgery of the knee.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/author-talk-back-fix-by-antony-bush/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/WebsiteBanner_BackFixQA.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240507T180000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20240507T193000
DTSTAMP:20260503T113527
CREATED:20240306T015052Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240403T013524Z
UID:10000055-1715104800-1715110200@scorpiobooks.co.nz
SUMMARY:Scorpio Books Club | May | 'Amma' by Saraid de Silva
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 Scorpio Books Club. \nOn the first Tuesday of each month\, we meet discuss our previous Book of the Month – so in May\, we’ll be talking about our April book\, Amma by Saraid de Silva. \nWhen: Tuesday 7th May\, 6pm – 7.30pm\nWhere: Scorpio Books\nTickets: $10 per person per month \n  \nYour ticket includes: \n\nAn email with a selection of reviews and questions a few days prior to get the ideas flowing. (Not required reading – just there if you’re keen.)\nDrinks\, nibbles and facilitated discussion on the night\, plus Bel and Ray’s other recommended reads for the month.\nAfter hours browsing time\, with 10% off all full-priced purchases on the night.\nA follow up email that includes all books mentioned on the night (so you can add them to your TBR pile!)\n\n  \nIf you have any questions about the Scorpio Books Club\, please email bookclub@scorpiobooks.co.nz. \n* Cancellation policy: tickets can be cancelled until 9am on the day by emailing bookclub@scorpiobooks.co.nz. The ticket price cannot be refunded\, but transferred to the next Book Club session\, or to store credit that will never expire.
URL:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/event/scorpio-books-club-may-amma-by-saraid-de-silva/
LOCATION:Scorpio Books\, 120 Hereford Street\, Christchurch\, New Zealand
CATEGORIES:Scorpio Books
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Website-Event-Banner-Books-Club.png
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR