Swindon of Hong Kong Holiday Book Choices…and other locations in the SAR You Could Choose to Go
Posted: November 24th, 2011 | 3 Comments »The venerable Swindon Book Company of Hong Kong has issued its annual 100 best books for Christmas – all are discounted up till the 25th of December. Midnight in Peking is on the list – under fiction, but never mind! Of course there are many other excellent titles, but those authors will have to get their own blogs!!
Meanwhile,and talking of Hong Kong (and in the interests of fairness) I would also like to point out that I am also proud to be solidly at No.3 on the Dymocks charts in the SAR (trailing Steve Jobs but beating Haruki Murakami – make of that what you will!). And rather wonderfully, I’m holding solidly at No.2 at Bookazine (that bloody Steve Jobs again!!)
While if you’re escaping Hong Kong as the winter and the holiday season kicks in both Relay and Page One at the airport can sell you a copy or three. So no excuses really.
Congratulations! Glad to see your book doing so well! Friends in Beijing all have your book on their shelves, is the Kindle version out?
What great shelves they have too!!
Kindle version out April 2012 – it’s a territorial thing as that’s when the book comes out officially in the UK/USA and they don’t want leakage!!
Congratulations on your inclusion in that stellar list–and, well, even Swindon gets things wrong from time to time (but what a haven that Lock Rd. store is.)
Thanks, incidentally, for bringing back great memories of happy hours spent wandering about Swindon, famous in bibliophilic and film circles (as you’ll probably know, it’s used in Greenaway’s _Pillow Book_!)