Bookshop Day 2026
Saturday, 10 October 2026
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Aurelia Books, 109 Willis Street, Te Aro, Wellington
Come along to Aurelia Books and celebrate Bookshop Day 2026 with us!
There'll be live music, giveaways (books, stationery, Golden Tickets etc), a Where's Wally scavenger hunt, Personal Penguins and more. We can't wait to celebrate all things books and reading with you!
Bookbinding Workshop | with Tiffany Tucker
Saturday, 17 October 2026
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Aurelia Books, 109 Willis Street, Te Aro, Wellington
Bookbinding Etc and Aurelia Books are excited to be joining forces to bring you this iconic bookbinding workshop!
Come along to learn how to sew together your own unlined hardcover journal – led by classically-trained bookbindress Tiffany Tucker from Bookbinding Etc, with help from Aurelia Books owner Brodie Joyce.
Your ticket includes nibbles and a drink.
October Book Club | Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
Wednesday, 21 October 2026
6:00 PM
Aurelia Books, 109 Willis Street, Te Aro, Wellington
Welcome to book club with Aurelia Books!
Book: Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
Date & Time: Wednesday 21 October @ 6.00pm
Where: Aurelia Books, 109 Willis Street, Te Aro, Wellington
Your ticket includes themed snacks and a non-alcoholic beverage. You are welcome to bring your own copy (physical or digital – we don't mind!) or you can purchase a copy through us.
Day / Dusk / Night Court @ Aurelia Books | A Court of Splintered Harmony Launch
Tuesday, 27 October 2026
10:00AM - 10:00PM
Aurelia Books, 109 Willis Street, Te Aro, Wellington
You are cordially invited to revel in the Day Court, Dusk Court and Night Court at Aurelia Books to celebrate the launch of A Court of Splintered Harmony. No booking or tickets required, just turn up!
Event details:
Day Court: 10AM-6PM
Pick up (or bring along) your copy of A Court of Splintered Harmony to read with fellow ACOTAR lovers – cosy attire encouraged!
Dusk Court: 6PM-7PM
Mist, flash tattoos and an imagined Dusk Court. Watch Aurelia Books transform.
Night Court: 7PM-10PM
Flash tattoos, tarot readings, drinks & snacks, ACOTAR-themed goodies inside our very own Night Court.
Sing to Me of Home Book Launch – Keith Westwater
Wednesday, 29 October 2026
5.30 PM
Aurelia Books, 109 Willis Street, Te Aro, Wellington
Come along to the launch of Keith Westwater's pukapuka: Sing to Me of Home.
The story of the poet’s motherless and peripatetic childhood was told in the poems of No One Home, followed by his time as a boy soldier in Home Base. Sing to Me of Home gathers the best of those poems into one volume along with work from three earlier collections and other poems published and new.