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  • When Harry Met Vicky—A Fatal Attraction

    A Fatal Attraction Growing up with My Parents

    by Peter Craggs ...
    A young Geordie cooper Harry escapes war-ravaged post-war Britain in search of new opportunities and adventure. He gets lucky, is recruited by the Hong Kong Police Force, and enjoys the trappings of an expatriate lifestyle. In the hot and sweaty, smoked-filled bars of Tsim Sha Tsui, he meets an attractive and vivacious Chinese dancing girl called Vicky, who escapes post-war China and the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Girl with Seven Names

    A North Korean Defector’s Story

    by Hyeonseo Lee ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom.As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of millions trapped by a secretive and brutal communist regime. Her home on the border with China ... Read more

    $11.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Fortune Cookie

    by Bryce Courtenay ...
    Simon Koo is an ambitious Australian-born Chinese who goes to Singapore in the mid-sixties to work for an advertising agency. But the Wing brothers, who run the agency, are not what they seem. There is soon trouble when Simon falls in love with the forbidden Mercy B. Lord.With no family or connections, this beautiful young woman is powerless to resist the evil influence of Beatrice Fong, a ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

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  • A Singapore Love Story (A Contemporary Novel)

    by Low Kay Hwa ...
    #1 bestselling novel in Romance / Paranormal!Listed as a national bestseller in Singapore for about half a year, A Singapore Love Story charts the tragic relationship of a couple trying to be together, ignoring the harsh knocks of reality. Can they bend reality for love, or will reality bend their lives?Since the beginning of time, people have wondered how powerful love could be. Can love ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Hong Kong Diaries

    by Chris Patten ...
    The diaries of the last British Governor of Hong Kong, published on the 25th anniversary of the handoverIn June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it not (as other British colonies over the decades) for independence, but for handing back in 1997 to the Chinese, from whom most of its territory had been leased 99 years previously. Over the next five ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Slave

    Snatched off Britain’s streets. The truth from the victim who brought down her traffickers.

    by Anna, Jason Johnson ...
    **Now watch the BBC drama Doing Money**‘They took me because I would not be missed’This is the shocking true story of how an ordinary young girl was kidnapped off the street as she walked home and turned into a slave – before fighting for her freedom and finding the courage to help the police in one of the UK’s most shocking modern-day slavery trials.Anna was an innocent student when she was ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Typhoon

    A Novel

    by Charles Cumming ...
    Typhoon, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Top Ten Thriller of the Year ( London Times), further confirms what all the critics have been saying: Charles Cumming is a modern master of the classic espionage thriller, heir to le Carre and Deighton.In 1997, a few months before the British government is scheduled to return Hong Kong to Chinese rule, Joe Lennox, a brilliant young operative ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Last Correspondent

    Dispatches from the frontline of Xi's new China

    by Michael Smith ...
    **The ultimate insider’s account: living and working in China in a period of unprecedented economic and social upheavalIt was just after midnight when China’s notorious secret police came knocking...**A late-night visit to his Shanghai laneway house by China’s notorious secret police triggered a diplomatic storm which abruptly ended Michael Smith’s stint as one of Australia’s last foreign ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Walking Home From Mongolia

    Ten Million Steps Through China, From the Gobi Desert to the South China Sea

    by Rob Lilwall ...
    Starting in the Gobi desert in winter, adventurer Rob Lilwall sets out on an extraordinary six-month journey, walking almost 5000 kilometres across China. Along the way he and his cameraman Leon brave the toxic insides of China's longest road tunnel, explore desolate stretches of the Great Wall and endure interrogation by the Chinese police.As they walk on through the heart of China, the exuberant ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • A Farewell to Calm

    The New Normal Survival Guide

    by John Crace ...
    **JOHN CRACE'S NEW BOOK DEPRAVED NEW WORLD IS AVAILABLE NOW**Infectiously entertaining political satire, from the author of Decline and Fail and I, Maybot.Throughout another year of bluster and bedlam in Westminster, John Crace's brilliantly acerbic political sketches have once more provided the nation with a much-needed injection of humour.In A Farewell to Calm, Crace introduces... ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Chinese Sailor

    by Allan Jones ...
    Series Book 1 - The Catrin Sayer Mysteries
    A cruise ship officer from Hong Kong disappears during a port stop in Holyhead on the North Wales coast and a missing person investigation turns up no leads. On the same cruise, an international police operation to break an art smuggling ring loses track of three valuable Russian paintings thought to be on board. Four months later the younger sister of the missing sailor becomes a student at ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Monkey House Blues

    A Shanghai Prison Memoir

    by Dominic Stevenson ...
    In 1993, Dominic Stevenson left a comfortable life with his girlfriend in Kyoto, Japan, to travel to China. His journey took him to some of the most inhospitable and dangerous places in the world, from the poppy fields of the Afghan-Pakistan border to the ancient trade routes of the Silk Road, before he was arrested for drug smuggling while boarding a boat from Shanghai to Japan.After eight months ... Read more

    $11.99 USD