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  • Book cover image: Coming of Age, by the Hong Kong Writers Circle

    Coming of Age

    HK$195.00
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  • Book cover image: FILTH, A True Story of Excess, Collapse and Redemption in Britain and Asia, by Peter Olsen

    FILTH: A True Story of Excess, Collapse and Redemption in Britain and Asia (ebook)

    HK$78.00
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  • Book cover image: FILTH, A True Story of Excess, Collapse and Redemption in Britain and Asia, by Peter Olsen

    FILTH: A True Story of Excess, Collapse and Redemption in Britain and Asia

    HK$148.00
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    Book cover image: bundle of 5 "China Revisited" books

    China Revisited – a book bundle

    HK$400.00 Original price was: HK$400.00.HK$320.00Current price is: HK$320.00.
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  • Book cover image: The Mystic Flowery Land, by Charles JH Halcombe

    The Mystic Flowery Land: A Curious Imperial Maritime Customs Officer’s Roamings in Hong Kong and Canton in Southern China’s Plague Year

    HK$80.00
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    • CNY: CN¥74.16
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  • Book cover image: Backstage in Hong Kong: A life with the Philharmonic, Broadway musicals and classical superstars, by John Duffus

    Backstage in Hong Kong: A life with the Philharmonic, Broadway musicals and classical superstars

    HK$148.00
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  • Book cover image: The Girl Who Dreamed, by Sonia Leung

    The Girl Who Dreamed: A Hong Kong Memoir of Triumph Against the Odds

    HK$138.00
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    • AUD: AU$26.55
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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

    HK$80.00
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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

    HK$148.00
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    • CNY: CN¥137.20
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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

    HK$80.00
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  • Book cover image: Wanderings in China, by Constance Gordon-Cumming

    Wanderings in China: Hong Kong and Canton, Christmas and New Year, 1878/1879

    HK$80.00
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  • Book cover image: Where Strange Gods Call, by Harry Hervey

    Where Strange Gods Call: Harry Hervey’s 1920s Hong Kong, Macao and Canton Sojourns

    HK$80.00
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  • Book cover image: "When 'Jesus' Came to Hong Kong" by Derek Currie

    When ‘Jesus’ Came to Hong Kong: The remarkable story of the first European football star in Asia

    HK$148.00
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  • Book cover image: A Book of Changes, by the Hong Kong Writers Circle

    A Book of Changes

    HK$150.00
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    • CNY: CN¥139.05
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    • AUD: AU$28.86
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  • Book cover image: The Hong Kong I Knew

    The Hong Kong I Knew: Scenes and Stories from a Childhood in Kowloon

    HK$148.00
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    • CNY: CN¥137.20
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  • Book cover image: Along the Southern Boundary by Les Bird

    Along the Southern Boundary: A Marine Police Officer’s Frontline Account of the Vietnamese Boatpeople and their Arrival in Hong Kong

    HK$180.00
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    • CNY: CN¥166.86
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  • Hong Kong Beat: True Stories From One of the Last British Police Officers in Colonial Hong Kong

    HK$138.00
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    • CNY: CN¥127.93
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    • EUR: €16.26
    • AUD: AU$26.55
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  • Book cover image: After the Storm, by Hong Kong Writers Circle

    After the Storm

    HK$170.00
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    • CNY: CN¥157.59
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    Book cover image: All The Way With Ray, by Ray Cordeiro

    All The Way With Ray: My Autobiography

    HK$188.00
    • USD: US$24.00
    • CNY: CN¥174.28
    • GBP: £18.85
    • EUR: €22.15
    • AUD: AU$36.17
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  • Book cover image: Love, Money and Friendships

    Love, Money and Friendships

    HK$148.00
    • USD: US$18.90
    • CNY: CN¥137.20
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  • Drawing on the Inside: Kowloon Walled City 1985

    HK$288.00
    • USD: US$36.77
    • CNY: CN¥266.98
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    • EUR: €33.94
    • AUD: AU$55.42
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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

    HK$138.00
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    • CNY: CN¥127.93
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  • Book cover image: Why Your CEO Failed in China

    Why Your CEO Failed in China: True tales of how not to do business in the People’s Republic

    HK$138.00
    • USD: US$17.62
    • CNY: CN¥127.93
    • GBP: £13.83
    • EUR: €16.26
    • AUD: AU$26.55
    • CAD: CA$24.10
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  • Book cover image: Masking the City: Hong Kong in Allegory, by the Hong Kong Writers Circle

    Masking the City: Hong Kong in Allegory

    HK$150.00
    • USD: US$19.15
    • CNY: CN¥139.05
    • GBP: £15.04
    • EUR: €17.68
    • AUD: AU$28.86
    • CAD: CA$26.19
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  • A Small Band of Men: An Englishman’s Adventures in the Hong Kong Marine Police

    HK$180.00
    • USD: US$22.98
    • CNY: CN¥166.86
    • GBP: £18.04
    • EUR: €21.21
    • AUD: AU$34.64
    • CAD: CA$31.43
    • JPY: ¥3,621
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