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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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  • I Hope This Finds You Well

    $36.99
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  • BRAT: A Ghost Story

    $38.99
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  • Heart in Winter

    $36.99
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    Parade

    $36.99
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  • Briefly Very Beautiful

    $36.99
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  • At The Grand Glacier Hotel

    $37.00
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  • Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner

    $39.99
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  • Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival

    $27.99
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  • Wide Wide Sea

    $40.00
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  • No Judgement: On Being Critical

    $39.99
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  • Waitohu: A Journal for Making Meaning

    $35.00
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  • Life Less Punishing: 13 Ways To Love the Life You’ve Got

    $37.99
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  • Friday Afternoon Club

    $39.99
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  • Maurice and Maralyn: A Whale, a Shipwreck, a Love Story

    $45.00
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  • Final Diagnosis

    $39.99
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  • We Will Not Be Saved

    $39.99
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  • Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion

    $37.99
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  • Piano Player of Budapest: A True Story of Holocaust Survival, Music and Hope

    $37.99
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  • Vitamin Txt: Words in Contemporary Art

    $110.00
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  • Eat Pacific: The Pacific Island Food Revolution Cookbook

    $60.00
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  • Organic Vegetable Gardening: A month-by-month guide to growing your own food

    $45.00
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  • Under the Stars Camping Australia and New Zealand

    $49.99
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  • Six-legged Ghosts: The Insects of Aotearoa

    $55.00
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  • Kismet: Bright, Fresh, Vegetable-Loving Recipes

    $70.00
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  • Damsel

    $24.99
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  • Not Like Other Girls

    $22.99
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  • Infinity Alchemist

    $22.99
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  • Brothers Hawthorne

    $23.00
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  • Ghost Drum

    $22.99
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  • Where Sleeping Girls Lie

    $22.99
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    Intermezzo

    $36.99
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    Make It Make Sense

    $37.99
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    Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

    $49.99
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    Whaea Blue

    $40.00
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    There are Rivers in the Sky

    $37.00
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    Mires

    $39.99
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  • Dune Part One: The Photography

    $115.00
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  • Witcher (8 Books Boxed Set: Last Wish, Sword of Destiny, Blood of Elves, Time of Contempt, Baptism of Fire, Tower of The Swallow, Lady of Lake, Season

    $150.00
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  • Throne of Glass Box Set (The Assassin’s Blade, Throne of Glass, Crown of Midnight, Heir of Fire, Queen of Shadows, Empire of Storms, Tower of Dawn *

    $155.00
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  • Hobbit (Illustrated by the Author)

    $95.00
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  • Jane Austen: The Complete Works

    $230.00
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  • Kinfolk Wilderness (Kinfolk Adventures)

    $110.00
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Staff Reviews

Book Review: Parade

Cusk doesn’t seek to create a world – instead, she creates a network that projects out into ours, requiring the reader’s own interpretation.

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Book Review: James

The tender – and revelatory – nature of the pair’s relationship is just one of this incredible novel’s many expertly evoked complexities.

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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.

Book Review: Parade

Cusk doesn’t seek to create a world – instead, she creates a network that projects out into ours, requiring the reader’s own interpretation.

Read more »