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Scorpio Books is an independent bookstore with the best range of carefully curated books in Ĺtautahi 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 canât find what youâre looking for, let us know and if it’s still in print we will order it in for you especially.
Scorpio Books is an independent bookstore with the best range of carefully curated books in Ĺtautahi Christchurch.
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Everything But the Medicine: A doctor’s tale
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Terrier, Worrier
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Before the Winter Ends
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Standing on my Shadow
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Books of Mana: 180 Maori-Authored Books of Significance
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Polkinghorne: Inside the Trial of the Century
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Polar War: Submarines, Spies and the Struggle for Power in a Melting Arctic
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Chokepoints: How Economic Warfare is Changing the World
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Going On and On: Why Our Longevity Threatens the Future
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Let it be Tough: Train your mind to perform under pressure
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Land Rover Named Lucy
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To the Edge of the World
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black
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Genius of Trees: How trees mastered the elements and shaped the world
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Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century
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Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War
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Death of an Ordinary Man
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Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins
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My Heart is This: Tracey Emin on Painting
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Contrapposto
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Eames Houses: Charles and Ray Eames Residential Architecture
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Stakes
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Polar War: Submarines, Spies and the Struggle for Power in a Melting Arctic
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Green City Wars
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Crooked Kingdom Collector’s Edition
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Art of Climbing
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Great Expectations
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Unofficial Lord of the Rings Cookbook: From Hobbiton to Mordor, Over 60 Recipes from the World of Middle-Earth
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Seven Sisters
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Rose Field: The Book of Dust v3
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We Do Not Part
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Attention: Writing on Life, Art and the World
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Genius Myth: The Dangerous Allure of Rebels, Monsters and Rule-Breakers
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Beartooth
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Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
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Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
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Book Review: Childhood, Youth, Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy)
This collection is the life’s work of a true twentieth-century great. I hope this book leaves on you the indelible mark it left on me.

Book Review: Cast Away
This is a mewling and meandering story of self-actualisation from the perspective of someone desperate to avoid reckoning with themself.




























