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Welcome to Scorpio Books

A treasure trove for booklovers

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Scorpio Books is an independent bookstore with the best range of carefully curated books in Ōtautahi Christchurch. Our staff are friendly, knowledgeable, eclectic readers ready with recommendations. Shop our online store, or come in and browse the shelves where you can settle into a comfy chair, discover our staff favourites, the best new releases in fiction and non-fiction, and all manner of bookish delights.

If you can’t find what you’re looking for, let us know and if it’s still in print we will order it in for you especially.

Welcome to Scorpio Books - a treasure trove for booklovers

Scorpio Books is an independent bookstore with the best range of carefully curated books in Ōtautahi Christchurch.

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  • Marilynn Webb: Folded in the hills

    $75.00
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  • Flora: Celebrating Our Botanical World

    $80.00
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  • Bird Life

    $38.00
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  • Big Fat Brown Bitch

    $30.00
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  • Pacific Arts Aotearoa

    $65.00
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  • Rugby League In New Zealand: A People’s History

    $59.99
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  • Bullet Swallower

    $37.99
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  • Picasso’s Lovers

    $37.99
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  • Bird Child and Other Stories

    $37.00
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  • When I Open the Shop

    $35.00
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  • Until August

    $40.00
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  • Extinction of Irena Rey

    $40.00
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  • Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story

    $40.00
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  • BBQ Economics: How money works and why it matters

    $40.00
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  • Tucci Table: Cooking with Family and Friends (Updated edition 2023)

    $70.00
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  • Missing Piece: A Women’s Guide to Understanding, Diagnosing and Living with ADHD

    $37.99
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  • Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle

    $37.00
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  • Who Owns the Moon? In Defence of Humanity’s Common Interests in Space

    $38.99
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  • Beautiful Afternoon

    $38.00
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  • Do You Still Have Time for Chaos?

    $35.00
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  • On Call: Stories from my life as a surgeon, a daughter and a mother

    $39.99
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  • Beyond Hope: From an Auckland prison to changing lives in Afghanistan

    $39.99
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  • House of Hidden Meanings: A memoir

    $39.99
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  • Lawrence of Arabia: A Biography

    $42.00
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  • Monica

    $55.00
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  • Ki Mua, Ki Muri: 25 years of Toioho ki Apiti

    $70.00
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  • Flora: Celebrating Our Botanical World

    $80.00
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  • Artists in Antarctica

    $80.00
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    Recipes for a Lifetime of Beautiful Cooking

    $55.00
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  • Rumi: Food of Middle Eastern Appearance

    $45.00
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  • Let’s Never Speak of This Again

    $30.00
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  • Lightstruck: The Darkening duology v2

    $27.99
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    Curious Tides (v1 Drowned Gods Duology)

    $32.99
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  • Tonight, I Burn

    $27.99
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  • Thieves’ Gambit

    $26.99
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  • Goddess Crown

    $22.99
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    How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir

    $37.99
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    Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood

    $65.00
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    Shadows At Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century

    $90.00
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    Caledonian Road

    $39.99
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    African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence

    $40.00
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    Foraging New Zealand

    $50.00
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  • Slim Aarons: The Essential Collection

    $285.00
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  • Fullmetal Alchemist Complete Box Set

    $475.00
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  • Grand Bikepacking Journeys: Riding Iconic Routes around the World

    $135.00
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  • Hobbit/ The Lord of the Rings (4 Volume Faux Leather, Boxed Set)

    $169.00
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  • Mondrian and Photography: Picturing the Artist and his Work

    $125.00
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  • Therapeutic Library: 100 essential books that teach fulfilment, calm and well-being

    $60.00
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