Category: books

  • The Eslite Spectrum 誠品生活, Hong Kong

    The Eslite Spectrum 誠品生活, Hong Kong

    We were visiting Hong Kong during the Christmas period. One store that we went to multiple times on this trip is The Eslite Spectrum store in Star House 星光行, Tsim Sha Tsui. Its location just happened to be near the places that we were visiting and it is just a nice place to have a

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  • Exploring Libelle mit H&B, Buchantiquariat, Basel

    Exploring Libelle mit H&B, Buchantiquariat, Basel

    Continuing with our posts on the bookstores we come across …, Libelle mit H&B is a high-end, well-curated second hand bookstore (antique bookseller) in the old town of Basel, Switzerland. Click here to see their website in English. It has a perfect location – Alstadt, a block from the city’s main thoroughfare –  and situated at

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  • Rizzoli Galleria, Milano

    Rizzoli Galleria, Milano

    Continuing our tour of the world’s bookstores, we found a Rizzoli inside the Galleria Vittorio Emmanuelle II in Milano. It is affiliated with the one in New York. The Rizzoli Galleria are on three floors, it is not huge but carries quite a variety of Italian and international books. According to the publicity material, the store

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  • Moscow House of Books, Московский дом книги

    Moscow House of Books, Московский дом книги

    If you have been following this blog for a while, you would know that I(Chris) like to check out local bookstores when visiting a new city/country.  For example, in Budapest, London, Kuala Lumpur… for more bookstores, click on Books to find them. In Moscow, I stumbled upon this massive bookstore after having dinner in the touristy

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