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. 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
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Marilynn Webb: Folded in the hills
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Flora: Celebrating Our Botanical World
$80.00Add to cart -
Bird Life
$38.00Add to cart -
Big Fat Brown Bitch
$30.00Add to cart -
Pacific Arts Aotearoa
$65.00Add to cart
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Milk: The Truth, the Lies and the Unbelievable Story of the Original Superfood
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Survivors
$37.99Add to cart -
Body Made of Glass: A History of Hypochondria
$39.99Add to cart -
Wide Wide Sea
$40.00Add to cart -
No Judgement: On Being Critical
$39.99Add to cart -
Waitohu: A Journal for Making Meaning
$35.00Add to cart
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Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life & sudden death
$35.00Add to cart -
I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki: further conversations with my psychiatrist
$32.99Add to cart -
Friday Afternoon Club
$39.99Add to cart -
Maurice and Maralyn: A Whale, a Shipwreck, a Love Story
$45.00Add to cart -
We Will Not Be Saved
$39.99Add to cart -
Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion
$37.99Add to cart
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Vitamin Txt: Words in Contemporary Art
$110.00Add to cart -
Sight Lines: Women and Art in Aotearoa
$69.99Add to cart -
Eat Pacific: The Pacific Island Food Revolution Cookbook
$60.00Add to cart -
Organic Vegetable Gardening: A month-by-month guide to growing your own food
$45.00Add to cart -
Under the Stars Camping Australia and New Zealand
$49.99Add to cart -
Six-legged Ghosts: The Insects of Aotearoa
$55.00Add to cart
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City and Its Uncertain Walls
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Wild Walks Aotearoa: A Guide to Tramping in New Zealand
$50.00Add to cart -
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Onyx Storm
$37.99Add to cart -
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Kawai: Tree of Nourishment
$39.99Add to cart -
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Kataraina
$37.00Add to cart -
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Intermezzo
$36.99Add to cart
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Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones
$95.00Add to cart -
Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Volumes 1 and 2 Slipcased)
$145.00Add to cart -
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Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief Collector’s Edition
$55.00Add to cart -
Jane Austen: The Complete Works
$230.00Add to cart -
From Soul to Sole: The Adidas Sneakers of Jacques Chassaing
$140.00Add to cart -
Fullmetal Alchemist Complete Box Set
$475.00Add to cart
Upcoming Events
Staff Reviews
Book Review: In Memoriam
This novel is an ode to queer love, a gripping war story, a treatise on the necessity of poetry and language for the human spirit.
Book Review: In the Half Light of a Dying Day: Catullus, 2023
Though long dead, Catullus is an accessible poet for the modern reader because he wrote candidly about love, jealousy, hate and politics.
Book Review: In The Ring
In The Ring is an uplifting novel about a bisexual girl with anxiety who starts boxing to cope. This book made me sign up for a boxing class!
Book Review: Counterfutures
This journal always pulls me out of a scholarly reading rut and reinvigorates ideas of postcolonial leftist theory with creativity.
Gift Vouchers
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.
Book Review: In Memoriam
This novel is an ode to queer love, a gripping war story, a treatise on the necessity of poetry and language for the human spirit.
Book Review: In the Half Light of a Dying Day: Catullus, 2023
Though long dead, Catullus is an accessible poet for the modern reader because he wrote candidly about love, jealousy, hate and politics.