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For those in Asia and Australia – Where to Score Midnight in Peking This Holiday Season?

Posted: December 18th, 2011 | 2 Comments »

A few things that may interest, but are really just self-promotion!

A Q&A on Midnight in Peking that ran in Time Out Hong Kong – apologies for the slightly odd nautically-themed picture!

A longish piece in the Asia Times here

Travelling around a bit lately I’ve seen piles of Midnight in the following shops in case you’re looking for one for Christmas!!

In Asia

In China of course there’s the Bookworm (see their annual top reads below) and Page One in Beijing, Garden Books in Shanghai and online with Amazon.cn (bargain price of RMB149 but they’ll only deliver if you live in the PRC I’m afraid)

Kinokuniya in the KLCC in KL has plenty and, if you’re in Malaysia you can buy it online here and read a review of the book in the Malaysian Sun

Prologue Books on Orchard Road in Singapore and Kinokuniya in Singapore too who also have it available online here. There;s also a nice feature on the book in Ex-Pat Living Magazine in Singapore (here)

Relay and Page One at Hong Kong Airport as well as Dymocks, Bookazine and Swindon throughout the SAR

If you’re heading down under:

Watermark stores in Sydney (look under ‘True crime’) and Melbourne (look under ‘history’) airports as well as Readings on Melbourne’s Lygon Street and other outlets and Dymocks throughout town

I haven’t checked but all good bookshops across Australia and New Zealand should have the book but you can also buy online direct from Penguin in Oz or Dymocks (postage only A$5!!)

And those crappy bookshops at Pudong Airport where three, yes three, Jobs titles are available for the techie morons!!

Sorry rest of the world but it’ll be everywhere come April 2012!

And from the Bookworm in Beijing:

The New York Times and The Guardian recently released their end of the year top 100 book lists. If we had to choose our favorites of 2011, 100 might not be enough. Some books we’ve loved reading this year have been:  Jarmach’s Menagerie by Carol Birch, Into the Silence by Wade Davis, Midnight in Peking by Paul French, The Sisters Brothers by Patrick Dewitt, The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach, Tide PLayers by Zha Jiaping, The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman and The Magician King by Lev Grossman.
And they all make excellent holiday gifts!

Happy reading!
The Bookworm

2 Comments on “For those in Asia and Australia – Where to Score Midnight in Peking This Holiday Season?”

  1. 1 wu fenglou said at 8:27 pm on December 21st, 2011:

    hello, I am writing to contact, since I am very interested at your new book ” Midnight in Peking”, although I have no chance to get the book in mainland China yet or read it through. The outline and the historic context of story drew my big attention. I would like to translate this book into Chinese, and hopefully the Chinese version could be on Chinese bookstore soon. Briefly, I owned a dual degree in History and Economics, and I am a Chinese native. Let me know if you think this is a good idea.

  2. 2 Paul French said at 6:18 am on December 28th, 2011:

    If you’re interested in anything regarding the translation of the book you need to contact Penguin Books in Beijing in the first instance – http://www.penguin.com.cn/

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