Book Review: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
His writing is playful and virtuosic but the impulse to tell a great story is always in the driver’s seat – and pressing the accelerator!
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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Chernobyl Roulette: A War Story
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Become Unstoppable: The blueprint from the world’s most successful sports team
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Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789
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Hook, Line and Misadventure
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Underworld
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Mad and the Brave: The Untold Story of Ukraine’s Foreign Legion
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Anything Could Happen
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Intrepid Women: Adventures in Anthropology
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My Father Bryce
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America Day by Day
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Position of Spoons: and other intimacies
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Please Live: The Chechen Wars, My Mother and Me
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Whenua
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Bird of the Year
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Eden: A Portrait of Mountain Biking in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Hungry Cook
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Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy
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Life-Changing Homes: Eco-Friendly Designs That Promote Well-Being
$64.99Add to cart
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Seascraper
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Whenua
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Saving Elli
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Misinterpretation
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Ara: A Maori guidebook of the mind
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Edible Weeds Handbook: A field guide to the introduced edible wild plants of New Zealand
$35.00Add to cart
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Slender Volumes
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Hibiscus Tart
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Force Of Nature Te Aumangea O Te Turoa: A conservation history of Forest & Bird 1923-2023
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Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit
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Royal Free
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Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History of Maori Art
$99.99Add to cart
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Poppy War Collector’s Edition (The Poppy War, Book 1)
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Iliad and the Odyssey (Boxed Set)
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Ultimate Collector Motorcycles
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White Teeth: 25th Anniversary Edition
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Jane Austen: The Complete Works
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Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief Collector’s Edition
$55.00Add to cart
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Book Review: All The Young Men
In conservative Arkansas, Coker Burns created a safe space for many queer men during the AIDS crisis in the 1980s and 1990s.