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    With Bare Hands: The true story of Alain Robert, the real-life Spiderman1 x HK$138.00
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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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    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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    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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