BeckerFraserPhotos November 2011 photograph 220
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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A family walking past Scorpio Books (now in Cashel Mall Re:Start) soon after the cordon opened up this piece of Hereford Street".
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Seen through the cordon fence, a wine bottle still sits on a table in the emptied-out Scorpio Books.
Bel Monypenny from Christchurch institution Scorpio Books as they celebrat…
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Scorpio Books in Christchurch turns 50 this year. Founded by David Cameron, who started with a tiny specialist shop and built it into a store with more than 30 staff and over 26,000 titles, it has survived the internet, Amazon and the Canterbury earthquakes. Head buyer Bel Monypenny joins Culture 101 to talk about what keeps an independent bookshop alive, the authors who have walked through the doors unannounced, and the book she most recently pressed into customers' hands.
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