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
$39.99Add to cart -
Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War
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Everest, Inc: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World
$39.99Add to cart -
Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight Loss Drugs
$38.99Add to cart -
Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society
$40.00Add to cart
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Committed: A Memoir of Finding Meaning in Madness
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Moederland: Nine Daughters of South Africa
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Grief is for People: A Memoir
$27.99Add to cart -
Ans Westra: A Life in Photography
$50.00Add to cart -
Otherhood: Essays about being childless, childfree and child-adjacent
$39.99Add to cart -
First Things
$35.00Add to cart
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Vitamin Txt: Words in Contemporary Art
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Organic Vegetable Gardening: A month-by-month guide to growing your own food
$45.00Add to cart -
Under the Stars Camping Australia and New Zealand
$49.99Add to cart -
Six-legged Ghosts: The Insects of Aotearoa
$55.00Add to cart -
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Kismet: Bright, Fresh, Vegetable-Loving Recipes
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Gardening Book
$70.00Add to cart
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There are Rivers in the Sky
$37.00Add to cart -
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Mires
$39.99Add to cart -
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Maurice and Maralyn: A Whale, a Shipwreck, a Love Story
$45.00Add to cart -
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Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
$49.99Add to cart -
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Other Valley
$36.99Add to cart -
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Navola
$38.99Add to cart
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Kinfolk Wilderness (Kinfolk Adventures)
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Throne of Glass Box Set (The Assassin’s Blade, Throne of Glass, Crown of Midnight, Heir of Fire, Queen of Shadows, Empire of Storms, Tower of Dawn *
$155.00Add 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
$150.00Add to cart -
Country Life: 125 Years of Countryside Living in Great Britain from the Archives of Country Life
$230.00Add to cart -
1964: Eyes of the Storm
$150.00Add to cart -
Man and His Kitchen: Classic Home Cooking and Entertaining with Style at the Wm Brown Farm
$100.00Add to cart
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Staff Reviews
Book Review: PUHIA Two/Rua
Affecting, politically pertinent and visually pleasing, PUHIA is a publication I read immediately as it arrives in-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.
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.
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: PUHIA Two/Rua
Affecting, politically pertinent and visually pleasing, PUHIA is a publication I read immediately as it arrives in-store.