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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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Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival
$27.99 Add to cart -
Wide Wide Sea
$40.00 Add to cart -
No Judgement: On Being Critical
$39.99 Add to cart -
Humanise: A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World
$37.00 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
$39.99 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
$39.99 Add to cart -
Grief is for People: A Memoir
$27.99 Add to cart -
Ans Westra: A Life in Photography
$50.00 Add to cart -
Otherhood: Essays about being childless, childfree and child-adjacent
$39.99 Add to cart
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Vitamin Txt: Words in Contemporary Art
$110.00 Add to cart -
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 -
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Kismet: Bright, Fresh, Vegetable-Loving Recipes
$70.00 Add to cart
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Country Life: 125 Years of Countryside Living in Great Britain from the Archives of Country Life
$230.00 Add to cart -
Iliad
$75.99 Add to cart -
Leaving the Comfort Zone: The Adventure of a Lifetime
$135.00 Add to cart -
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 Add to cart -
From Soul to Sole: The Adidas Sneakers of Jacques Chassaing
$140.00 Add to cart -
Ron Mueck
$110.00 Add to cart
Upcoming Events
Staff Reviews
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Book Review: First Things
Sections of the book are punctuated by poems and photographs, one of which confirms that, yes, in 1969 Professor Ricketts was very cool.
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Book Review: Talia
This collection is vulnerable and precise, travelling through and between the streets of Christchurch like a supercut of sweet memories.
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Book Review: The Bee Sting
This is a funny, utterly heartbreaking and incredibly well crafted novel, but it comes with a warning.
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Book Review: The Girl From The Sea
With beautiful illustrations, a seal-turned-human and a complicated love, what more do you need in a graphic novel?
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.
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![](https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/9781776921386_First_Things__06678.jpg)
Book Review: First Things
Sections of the book are punctuated by poems and photographs, one of which confirms that, yes, in 1969 Professor Ricketts was very cool.
![](https://scorpiobooks.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/9781991150639.jpg)
Book Review: Talia
This collection is vulnerable and precise, travelling through and between the streets of Christchurch like a supercut of sweet memories.