Iron and Silk
by Mark Salzman | 
Beyond the Sky and the Earth
by Jamie Zeppa | 
A Fortune-Teller Told Me
by Tiziano Terzani | 
Hitching Rides with Buddha
by Will Ferguson | 
Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China's Other Billion
by Michael Levy | 
Hearing Birds Fly
by Louisa Waugh | 
I Grew My Boobs in China
by Savannah Grace | 
Sideways on a Scooter
by Miranda Kennedy | 
Kosher Chinese
by Michael Levy | 
Around the Bloc
by Stephanie Elizondo Griest | 
Buttertea at Sunrise
by Britta Das | 
My Life in France
by Julia Child | 
Little Princes
by Conor Grennan | 
Hiking Through
by Paul Stutzman | 
Kabul Beauty School
by Deborah Rodriguez |
The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
by Helene Hanff | 
Dispatches from Pluto
by Richard Grant |
Notes from Walnut Tree Farm
by Roger Deakin | 
Almost French
by Sarah Turnbull | 
A Woman in the Polar Night
by Christiane Ritter |
At seven years old, Martin Booth found himself with all of Hong Kong at his feet when his father was posted there in 1952. This is his memoir of that youth, a time when he had access to corners of the colony normally closed to a gweilo, a "pale fellow" like him. From the plink plonk man with his dancing monkey to Nagasaki Jim, and from a drunken child molester to the Queen of Kowloon (the crazed tramp who may have been a Romanov), Martin saw it all--but his memoir illustrates a deeper challenge in his warring parents. This is an intimate and powerful memory of a place and time now past.