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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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All Her Lives
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Middle of Nowhere: Stories of working on the Manapouri Hydro Project
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Raukura Turei: Takoto Ai Te Marino
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Garrison World
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Clay Eaters
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Covid Response: A Scientist’s Account of New Zealand’s Pandemic and What Comes Next
$39.99 Add to cart
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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
$39.99 Add to cart
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Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century
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Death of an Ordinary Man
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black
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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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Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War
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Genius of Trees: How trees mastered the elements and shaped the world
$40.00 Add to cart
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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
$90.00 Add to cart -
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Stakes
$40.00 Add to cart -
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Polar War: Submarines, Spies and the Struggle for Power in a Melting Arctic
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Green City Wars
$38.00 Add to cart
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Illustrated World of Tolkien: The Second Age
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Hunger Games (Illustrated Edition)
$49.99 Add to cart -

Iliad and the Odyssey (Boxed Set)
$123.99 Add to cart -

Great Expectations
$45.00 Add to cart -

Twilight Deluxe Collector’s Edition
$65.00 Add to cart -

Pumpkin Spice Cafe (Deluxe)
$45.00 Add to cart
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Schott’s Significa: An Unexpectedly Essential Guide to Language
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Wonderland
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Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival, Christopher Marlowe
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He Puawai: A Natural History of New Zealand Flowers
$79.99 Add to cart -

Polkinghorne: Inside the Trial of the Century
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Sun Rising: James I and the Dawn of a Global Britain
$54.99 Add to cart
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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.





























