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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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  • Good Material

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  • Bird Life

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  • Death Valley

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  • Water

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  • Vulnerables

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  • Starling House

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  • Bob Dylan: Mixing up the Medicine

    $175.00
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  • Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

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  • Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper

    $59.99
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  • I Don’t: The case against marriage

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  • Knowledge Is a Blessing on Your Mind: Selected Writings, 1980-2020

    $65.00
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  • Sonic Life

    $39.99
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  • Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary

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  • Lawrence of Arabia: A Biography

    $42.00
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  • Every Man for Himself and God against All

    $55.00
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  • Wandering Through Life: A Memoir

    $40.00
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  • Making It So: A Memoir

    $65.00
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  • Murray Ball: A Cartoonist’s Life

    $45.00
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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 (Drowned Gods Duology)

    $32.99
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  • Tonight, I Burn

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  • Thieves’ Gambit

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  • Goddess Crown

    $22.99
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    Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle

    $37.00
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    Eye Of The World v1

    $70.00
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    Be Sure (v1-3 Wayward Children)

    $37.99
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    System Collapse: Murderbot Diaries v7

    $37.99
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    Art of Kinfolk: An Iconic Lens on Life and Style

    $150.00
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    Warhol After Warhol: Power and Money in the Modern Art World

    $39.99
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  • Lords of the Earth: The Entwined Destiny of Wildlife and Humanity

    $200.00
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  • History: The Definitive Visual Guide (4th edition 2023)

    $100.00
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  • Anthology

    $125.00
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  • Watch Book Rolex (Updated and expanded edition 2021)

    $180.00
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  • Kinfolk Wilderness (Kinfolk Adventures)

    $110.00
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  • Grand Bikepacking Journeys: Riding Iconic Routes around the World

    $135.00
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Staff Review: COUP

A game built off lies, where there are two ways to move forward – play it safe and slow, or lie and hope the others don’t call your bluff.

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