Events

The 2025 festival will be held from 13 to 18 May.

The 2025 festival will be held from 13 to 18 May.

Scorpio Books and Allen & Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand warmly invite you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of The Lost Saint by local award-winning author Rachael Craw. All welcome, refreshments provided.

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.

Calling all divas! Join us for the launch of Cadence Chung’s stunning debut full-length poetry collection, Mad Diva.

You’re invited! Come along to celebrate Rachael King’s latest release, Violet and the Velvets: The Case of the Missing Stuff, a new middle-grade series about Violet and friends forming a rock band together.

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.

A Q & A with Jeffrey Paparoa Holman

The 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Shortlist is set to be announced on 05 March.

From hard-to-find classic to something to read on the beach this summer, there's a book here for all reading interests.

This 22 and 23 February Hamilton hosts a captivating literary weekend. Authors from around the motu will join local Waikato talent in sparkling conversations.

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.

Samesame But Different, New Zealand’s only LGBTQIA+ literary festival celebrates its 10th birthday in 2025. Festival dates are 12 to 15 February.

Samesame But Different, New Zealand’s only LGBTQIA+ literary festival celebrates its 10th birthday in 2025. Festival dates are 12 to 15 February.

Samesame But Different, New Zealand’s only LGBTQIA+ literary festival celebrates its 10th birthday in 2025. Festival dates are 12 to 15 February.

Samesame But Different, New Zealand’s only LGBTQIA+ literary festival celebrates its 10th birthday in 2025. Festival dates are 12 to 15 February.

The 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Longlist is set to be announced on 30 January.

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.

Did you binge the madam TV series? Now you can pick up the new memoir MADAM and find out what REALLY happened.

The exclusive first-ever public event for ngā pukapuka pekapeka, the new Ōtautahi micropress

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.