Book Launch | Have This Heart

Schedule

Thu, 25 Jun, 2026 at 06:00 pm

UTC+12:00
Location

Scorpio Books | Christchurch, CA

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Please join Te Herenga Waka University Press and Scorpio Books for the launch of Have This Heart, a new collection of short stories by Lawrence Patchett.
💙 Thursday, 25 June
💙 Arrive from 5:30pm for a 6pm start
💙 Scorpio Books, 120 Hereford Street, Ōtautahi Christchurch
💙 Free event - all welcome!
The book will be launched by Bill Nelson, with Always Becominging speaking on behalf of Te Herenga Waka University Press.
To help us manage catering and capacity, please RSVP at tinyurl.com/ScorpioBooksRSVP
From acclaimed author Lawrence Patchett, Have This Heart is a compulsively readable story collection about men who are trying to do better.
Whether training a rescue dog, starting a bucket chain to put out a raging fire, raising a marquee beside a line of Ferraris, or reporting on a sensitive workplace accident, the men in Have This Heart are striving for more. For connection, for humour, for a way back into the world.
Lawrence Patchett’s stories are about men at work and what happens when your life doesn’t let you hide. These are tightly coiled stories, rich with rough talk and fear-sweat and tenderness.
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Scorpio Books, Christchurch, New Zealand

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