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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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  • Snorkelling the Abyss: One woman, striving to survive, fighting for survivors

    $35.00
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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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    Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Special Edition)

    $60.00
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  • Madwoman

    $36.99
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    Courting of Bristol Keats

    $37.99
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  • Hell’s Bells

    $36.99
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  • Six Scorched Roses

    $34.99
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    Stardust Grail

    $37.99
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  • Women Living Deliciously

    $39.99
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  • Innerland: A journey through the everyday landscape of New Zealand

    $39.99
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    Noble Fragments: the maverick who broke up the world’s greatest book

    $45.00
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    Serviceberry: An Economy of Gifts and Abundance

    $38.00
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    White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering

    $54.99
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  • D&D 2024 Player’s Handbook

    $87.00
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  • Lily, Oh Lily: Searching for a Nazi ghost

    $36.99
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  • Baltic Souls: Remarkable Life Stories from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania

    $48.00
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    Unreel: A memoir

    $40.00
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  • Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II

    $39.99
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  • Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science

    $38.99
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  • Island to Oneself: Six Years Alone on a Desert Island

    $45.00
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  • Innerland: A journey through the everyday landscape of New Zealand

    $39.99
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    Natural Gardener: Advice and inspiration for wildening your garden

    $65.00
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  • Sale!

    Joseph Banks’ Florilegium: Botanical Treasures from Cook’s First Voyage

    Original price was: $135.00.Current price is: $90.00.
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  • Bold Types: Indie Bookshops of Aotearoa New Zealand

    $70.00
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  • Kahurangi: The nature of Kahurangi National Park and Northwest Nelson

    $79.99
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  • Force Of Nature Te Aumangea O Te Turoa: A conservation history of Forest & Bird 1923-2023

    $89.99
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    I Shall Never Fall in Love

    $28.99
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  • Dagger and the Flame

    $28.99
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  • Glass Girl

    $26.99
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  • Heir

    $29.99
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  • Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry

    $32.99
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  • Return to Sender

    $29.99
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    Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Special Edition)

    $60.00
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    Bookshop Day Tote Bag 2024

    $35.00
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    Hotel Theresa

    $28.00
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    Courting of Bristol Keats

    $37.99
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    Natural Gardener: Advice and inspiration for wildening your garden

    $65.00
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  • pre-order

    Noble Fragments: the maverick who broke up the world’s greatest book

    $45.00
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  • Absolute Batman: The Court of Owls (2023 Edition)

    $255.00
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  • Two Years on a Bike: From Vancouver to Patagonia

    $150.00
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  • Ancillary Justice 10th anniversary edition

    $80.00
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  • Avant Garden: Visionaries and Gardens Beyond Wild Expectations

    $135.00
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  • Man and His Kitchen: Classic Home Cooking and Entertaining with Style at the Wm Brown Farm

    $100.00
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    Eye Of The World: The World of Time v1

    $70.00
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The perfect gift for book lovers! Choose from physical vouchers to use in store, or a digital gift card to use in our online store.