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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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  • 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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  • Don Binney: Flight Path

    $89.99
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  • Small Hours

    $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: A novel

    $35.00
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  • Until August

    $40.00
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  • Extinction of Irena Rey

    $40.00
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  • Humanise: A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World

    $37.00
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  • Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind

    $39.99
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  • Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood

    $65.00
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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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  • Missing Piece: A Women’s Guide to Understanding, Diagnosing and Living with ADHD

    $37.99
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  • How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir

    $37.99
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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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  • Under the Stars Camping Australia and New Zealand

    $49.99
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  • Artist’s Journey: The travels that inspired the artistic greats (v2 Journeys of Note)

    $45.00
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  • Alpine Panorama: A View To A Climb

    $59.99
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  • Kai and Kindness

    $55.00
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  • Tasmanian Gardens

    $90.00
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  • Tucci Table: Cooking with Family and Friends (Updated edition 2023)

    $70.00
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    Grimmelings

    $24.99
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  • Lies We Sing to the Sea

    $22.99
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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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    Ash

    $30.00
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    Six-legged Ghosts: The Insects of Aotearoa

    $55.00
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    Shadows At Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century

    $90.00
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    Anita de Monte Laughs Last

    $36.99
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    Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra

    $39.99
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    Caledonian Road

    $39.99
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  • Kinfolk Wilderness (Kinfolk Adventures)

    $110.00
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  • Atlas of Car Design: The World’s Most Iconic Cars

    $220.00
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  • Illustrated World of Tolkien: The Second Age

    $80.00
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  • Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones

    $95.00
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  • Ron Mueck

    $110.00
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  • Temples of Books: Magnificent Libraries Around the World

    $150.00
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