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    Dim Sum: A Survival Guide1 x HK$98.00
    Book cover image: Along the Southern Boundary by Les Bird
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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: Hong Kong Shifts, by Cynthia Cheng and Maxime Vanhollebeke

    Hong Kong Shifts: Stories from the streets of Hong Kong

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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

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  • Book cover image: Volume 5, Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell, by David Bellis from Gwulo

    Volume 5: Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell

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  • Book cover image: Hong Kong Slang, by Lindsay Varty

    Hong Kong Slang

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  • Book cover image: The Ink Trail – Hong Kong, by Andreas von Buddenbrock

    The Ink Trail: Hong Kong

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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

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  • Book cover image: A Danger Shared, by Melville Jacoby and Bill Lascher

    A Danger Shared: A Journalist’s Glimpses of a Continent at War

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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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  • 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: 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: Time Tourists - Extinct mammals go on holiday

    Time Tourists: Extinct mammals go on holiday

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  • China Revisited Series (four book covers)

    China Revisited: a series bundle

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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: Wanderings in China, by Constance Gordon-Cumming

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

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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

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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

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  • Book cover image - The Peak

    The Peak: An Illustrated History of Hong Kong’s Top District

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  • Book cover image: 36 Views of Lion Rock

    Thirty-six Views of Lion Rock

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  • Book cover image: Chinese Gods

    Chinese Gods: An introduction to Chinese folk religion

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  • Book cover image: The Last Tigers of Hong Kong, by John Saeki

    The Last Tigers of Hong Kong: True stories of big cats that stalked Britain’s Chinese colony

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  • Book cover image: Welly the Wild Boar

    Welly the Wild Boar and the Quest for the Egg Puffs

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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

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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

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  • Hong Kong Beat: True Stories From One of the Last British Police Officers in Colonial Hong Kong

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