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 -
Everest, Inc: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World
$39.99 Add to cart -
Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight Loss Drugs
$38.99 Add to cart -
Organic Vegetable Gardening: A month-by-month guide to growing your own food
$45.00 Add to cart -
Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind
$39.99 Add to cart
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Committed: A Memoir of Finding Meaning in Madness
$39.99 Add to cart -
Grief is for People: A Memoir
$27.99 Add to cart -
Otherhood: Essays about being childless, childfree and child-adjacent
$39.99 Add to cart -
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Last Secret Agent
$37.99 Add to cart -
Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China
$38.99 Add to cart -
How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir
$37.99 Add to cart
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Vitamin Txt: Words in Contemporary Art
$110.00 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 -
Gardening Book
$70.00 Add to cart -
Artist’s Journey: The travels that inspired the artistic greats (v2 Journeys of Note)
$45.00 Add to cart
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Slim Aarons: The Essential Collection
$285.00 Add to cart -
Kinfolk Islands
$120.00 Add to cart -
Fullmetal Alchemist Complete Box Set
$475.00 Add to cart -
Ultimate Collector Motorcycles
$495.00 Add to cart -
Man and His Kitchen: Classic Home Cooking and Entertaining with Style at the Wm Brown Farm
$100.00 Add to cart -
Leaving the Comfort Zone: The Adventure of a Lifetime
$135.00 Add to cart
Upcoming Events
Staff Reviews
Book Review: Fabric
Covering the history, manufacture, origins and traditional uses of rare and enigmatic fabrics, this book is a love letter to textiles.
Book Review: The Monsters Know What They’re Doing
Instead of being dry and dull, this book is sparkling with humour, encouraging you to inject mischief and creativity into your D&D games.
Book Review: North Woods
In this delightfully audacious novel, Mason combines fiction, nature writing, and more to bring a patch of Massachusetts woodland to life.
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: Fabric
Covering the history, manufacture, origins and traditional uses of rare and enigmatic fabrics, this book is a love letter to textiles.