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Images from the Hong Kong Book Fair 2013

Late post but here are images from the Hong Kong Book Fair, 17-23 July 2013 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong.

The annual exhibition at the City Hall organised by the Hong Kong Publishing Federation could be regarded as the predecessor of the Hong Kong Book Fair. The First Hong Kong Book Fair was held in 1990 and this year it is its 25th year. The Fair has become an annual major event in Hong Kong with the number of visitors reaching new high every year. The organiser, the HKTDC, has always been striving to promote local reading culture. Apart form extensively inviting the public to the Fair to visit and buy books, it also spares no effort in organising diversified cultural activities during the Book Fair period with a view to enhance the contents and quality of the Fair.

During the past 24 years the number of exhibitors has grown from 149 to 504 in 2009, with corresponding growth of attendance from 200,000 to 900,000 in 2009. The Fair has developed from a mere promotion platform for the industry to an annual territory-wide major reading and cultural event for the public of Hong Kong.

Major Exhibit Categories:

  • Books and Publications
  • Children’s and Teen’s Books
  • Religious Books
  • e-Books & e-Learning Resources: e-Book Readers, Audio Visual Learning Aids, Educational Software
  • Multimedia Products
  • Stationery and Printed Products

Hong Kong Book Fair 2014 will happen on  16-22 July 2014 (Wednesday – Tuesday) at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong.

Bonus image, The Monocle Shop in Hong Kong.

New Books Posted, August 2013


New books posted on our website, unsorted:

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
Shopgirl by Steve Martin
The Quintessential World of Darkness (Vampire, Werewolf, Mage, Wraith, and Changeling)
Modern Feminisms: Political, Literary, Cultural
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler (The V-Day Edition)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
The Tesseract by Alex Garland
Dark Tyrants. A Vampire: The Dark Ages Anthology
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Edited by Robert Mack)
A Village Life by Louise Glück (Hardbound, SIGNED)
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
The Elements of Grammar by Margaret Shertzer

You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers
The Best American Poetry 1991 (Mark Strand)
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore
Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire (Hardbound)
Lost by Gregory Maguire (Hardbound)
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Barnes
Brida by Paulo Coelho
Solar by Ian McEwan (Hardbound)
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh (Non-Movie Cover)
A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis/ Penal Colony/ Other Stories
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
The Fire by Katherine Neville (Hardbound)
The Hipster Handbook by Robert Lanham
Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris
A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain
QPB Anthology of Women's Writing (Edited by Susan Cahill)
World Mythology (Third Edition, Donna Rosenberg)
Codes, Puzzles, and Conspiracy by Dennis Shasha
The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers by Paul Hoffman
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett (Hardbound)
Crooks, Crime and Corruption by Roger Boar and Nigel Blundell (Hardbound)

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 12 (Edited by Stephen Jones)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 20 (Edited by Stephen Jones)
31 Songs by Nick Hornby
The New Food Lover's Companion (4th Edition)
Dr. Strangelove's Game: A Brief History of Economic Genius by Paul Strathern
X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills (Hardbound)
Astonishing X-Men: Exogenetic (Warren Ellis and Phil Jimenez)
Judge Dredd: Mega-City Masters 2 (Comics TPB)
Dungeons & Dragons: Character Record Sheets (4th)

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