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    Hong Kong Unveiled: A journey of discovery through the hidden world of Chinese customs and culture

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    Book cover image: Hong Kong Volunteers in Battle

    Hong Kong Volunteers in Battle: December 1941

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  • Book cover image - How to Hong Kong: An illustrated travel journal

    How to Hong Kong: An illustrated travel journal

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    It Won’t Be Long Now: The Diary of a Hong Kong Prisoner of War

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  • King Hui: The Man Who Owned All the Opium in Hong Kong

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  • Kitchen Tiles: A Collection of Salty, Wet Stories from the Bar-Rooms of Hong Kong

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  • Kowloon: Unknown Territory

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  • Lama of the Gobi: How Mongolia’s mystic monk spread Tibetan Buddhism in the world’s harshest desert

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  • Book cover image: LING-NAM, by Benjamin Couch 'BC' Henry

    LING-NAM: Hong Kong, Canton and Hainan Island in the 1880s

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    Book cover image - Lost Hong Kong

    Lost Hong Kong: A history in pictures

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  • Book cover image: Love, Money and Friendships

    Love, Money and Friendships

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  • Master of None: How a Hong Kong high-flyer overcame the devastating experience of imprisonment

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  • My Private China

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  • My Rooftop

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  • No City for Slow Men: Hong Kong’s quirks and quandaries laid bare

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    No Minister & No, Minister: The True Story of HarbourFest

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  • Book cover image: Octopus, The Pioneering Story of the World’s First Contactless Payment Card

    Octopus: The Pioneering Story of the World’s First Contactless Payment Card

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  • Book cover image - Other Voices, Other Eyes

    Other Voices, Other Eyes: Expatriate Lives in Hong Kong

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  • Book cover image: Paper Horses Traditional Woodblock Prints of Gods from Northern China, by David Leffman

    Paper Horses: Traditional Woodblock Prints of Gods from Northern China

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  • Paper Tigress: A life in the Hong Kong government

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  • Book bundle image: the Destination series by Paul French

    Paul French’s Destination series: a book bundle

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  • Paul’s Records: How a refugee from the Vietnam War found success selling vinyl on the streets of Hong Kong

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    Pelma’s Tears

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  • Book cover image: Pickle the Porcupine and the Wild Hong Kong Adventure, written by Lindsay Varty, illustrated by Catherine Choi

    Pickle the Porcupine and the Wild Hong Kong Adventure

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  • Book cover image - Policing Hong Kong - An Irish History

    Policing Hong Kong – An Irish History

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  • Remembering Bruce Lee: And Jon Benn’s Other Adventures

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  • Book cover image: Roving Through Southern China, by Harry A Franck

    Roving Through Southern China: An American’s Explorations of Hong Kong, Macao and Canton in the early 1920s

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  • Saudi Match Point

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  • Book cover image: Searching for Billie, by Ian Gill

    Searching for Billie: A journalist’s quest to understand his mother’s past leads him to discover a vanished China

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  • Book cover image: Sevens, by G.T. Reels

    Sevens: a Hong Kong novel

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    Shanghai’s Baghdadi Jews: A Collection of Biographical Reflections

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    Book cover image - Sheriff of Wan Chai

    Sheriff of Wan Chai: How an Englishman helped govern Hong Kong in its last decades as a British colony

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    Sketches of Sai Kung: From Clearwater Bay to the Country Parks

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    Book cover image: Sketches of Soho, by Lorette Roberts

    Sketches of Soho

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    Sketches of the Southside: Aberdeen Harbour and Repulse Bay to Stanley Market and Shek O

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  • Sleeping Chinese

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  • South China Morning Blues

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  • Book cover image - Spatial Cemetery

    Spatial Cemetery: A Journey Beneath the Surface of Hidden Hong Kong

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  • Book cover image: Stories from the Royal Hong Kong Police

    Stories from the Royal Hong Kong Police: Fifty accounts from officers of Hong Kong’s colonial-era police force

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  • Book cover image: Storm Whale

    Storm Whale

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  • Book cover image: Strangers on the Praia

    Strangers on the Praia: A Tale of Refugees and Resistance in Wartime Macao

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  • Street Life Hong Kong: Outdoor workers in their own words

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  • Book cover image - Sunset Survivors

    Sunset Survivors: Meet the people keeping Hong Kong’s traditional industries alive

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  • Book cover image: Sustainably Stylish by Sheryl Bolden

    Sustainably Stylish: A guide to curating a guilt-free wardrobe

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  • Tales from Victoria Park: Short stories of Indonesian women in Hong Kong

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  • Thai the Knot: How to Untangle the Complexities of Cross-cultural Marriage

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  • The Alphabet of Vietnam

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  • Book cover image: The Chakrata Incident, by Neville Sarony

    The Chakrata Incident

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  • The Chinese Wet Market Handbook: A guide to shopping at Hong Kong’s fresh food markets

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  • Book cover image - The Cleaner

    The Cleaner: The true story of one of the world’s most successful money launderers

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