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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Wide Wide Sea
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No Judgement: On Being Critical
$39.99 Add to cart -
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Life Less Punishing: 13 Ways To Love the Life You’ve Got
$37.99 Add to cart -
Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War
$39.99 Add to cart -
Everest, Inc: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World
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Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight Loss Drugs
$38.99 Add to cart
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Maurice and Maralyn: A Whale, a Shipwreck, a Love Story
$45.00 Add to cart -
Committed: A Memoir of Finding Meaning in Madness
$39.99 Add to cart -
Moederland: Nine Daughters of South Africa
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Grief is for People: A Memoir
$27.99 Add to cart -
Ans Westra: A Life in Photography
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Otherhood: Essays about being childless, childfree and child-adjacent
$39.99 Add to cart
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Vitamin Txt: Words in Contemporary Art
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Eat Pacific: The Pacific Island Food Revolution Cookbook
$60.00 Add to cart -
Organic Vegetable Gardening: A month-by-month guide to growing your own food
$45.00 Add to cart -
Under the Stars Camping Australia and New Zealand
$49.99 Add to cart -
Six-legged Ghosts: The Insects of Aotearoa
$55.00 Add to cart -
Art of Climbing
$64.99 Add to cart
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There are Rivers in the Sky
$37.00 Add to cart -
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Mires
$39.99 Add to cart -
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Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
$49.99 Add to cart -
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Other Valley
$36.99 Add to cart -
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Sight Lines: Women and Art in Aotearoa
$69.99 Add to cart -
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All the Colours of the Dark
$37.99 Add to cart
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Kinfolk Islands
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1964: Eyes of the Storm
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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 *
$199.99 Add to cart -
Fullmetal Alchemist Complete Box Set
$475.00 Add to cart -
Leaving the Comfort Zone: The Adventure of a Lifetime
$135.00 Add to cart -
Atlas of Car Design: The World’s Most Iconic Cars
$220.00 Add to cart
Upcoming Events
Staff Reviews
Book Review: The Navigating Fox
This book skips the exposition, leaving you to ponder the implications of its foundations as it leaps into the unknown.
Staff Review: The Apprentice Witnesser
It’s 2070 and the ice caps have melted. Bastienne’s life changes when two boys arrive unexpectedly from the monastery.
Book Review: PUHIA Two/Rua
Affecting, politically pertinent and visually pleasing, PUHIA is a publication I read immediately as it arrives in-store.
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: The Navigating Fox
This book skips the exposition, leaving you to ponder the implications of its foundations as it leaps into the unknown.
Staff Review: The Apprentice Witnesser
It’s 2070 and the ice caps have melted. Bastienne’s life changes when two boys arrive unexpectedly from the monastery.