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TAIPEI STORY is the electrifying new novel by bestselling literary phenomenon Rebecca F. Kuang, a profoundly moving coming-of-age story that explores first love, second language and final goodbyes – all set against the backdrop of one unforgettable summer in Taipei. Yale student Lily Chen arrives in Taipei hungry: for family, for culture, for connection. But her summer of discovery quickly...Paperback$2999Elsewhere:$3699Unit price /UnavailableOut 15 Sep 2026Pre-order
Free Gift20% offLonely Planet Taiwan
Lonely Planet's Taiwan is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the country has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Cycle the East Coast, explore temple treasures, and hike Taroko Gorge; all with your trusted travel companion. Inside Lonely Planet's Taiwan Travel Guide: Lonely Planet's Top Picks - a visually inspiring collection of the destination's...Paperback$3600Usually:$4499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Palm Pals Clip-On Plush - Milky Tea Boba
Milky Tea Boba is sweet, soft and ready to tag along. This mini clip version captures all the charm of the original, complete with plush cup detailing and a cheerful expression. Attach it to your bag or keys for a playful pop of personality wherever you go. A fun little treat in the ever-growing Palm Pals world. Step into a...3 years or older$1299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The New Geography of Innovation
The US is the source of just about all the technologies that define modern life: personal computers, operating systems, smartphones, e-commerce, web browsers, email, search engines, social networks, electric cars and the rest. And most of the tech companies that created and monetized these technologies are also in the US. In this book, Mehran Gul, the winner of the Financial...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
BAO
The very first cookbook from the hugely popular Taiwanese-inspired restaurant and cult brand, BAO. BAO presents an exciting and unique interpretation of Taiwanese culture through food and design and has established a passionate and devoted following for its restaurants situated across London. Named after the traditional steamed bun, BAO creates dishes and designs restaurants inspired by Taiwanese street food, the...Hardback$6200Elsewhere:$7000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Honeyeater
LONGLISTED - 2025 ALS Gold Medal 'A searing critique of academia, but one that cleverly weaves in an exploration of skewed power dynamics, the nature of translation, and mother-daughter relationships. It's fast-paced and written with an intensity that will drive you from page to page. But it's the themes Tu explores - exploitation and deception - that make The Honeyeater...Paperback$3500Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Yan Vol.1
Winner of the Golden Comic Award, from traditional Peking Opera to Taiwan in a future where machines rule, enjoy this action-packed thriller in English for the first time. From the award-winning creator of Oldmen and The Hidden Level, Chang Sheng delivers an opulently detailed supernatural sci-fi story that defies genres and engrosses readers with stunning artwork. Winner of the Golden...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Bitter Medicine
In this inspired contemporary fantasy, a Chinese immortal and a French elf try to balance new romance, familial loyalty, and workplace demands. In her debut novel, Taiwanese American author Mia Tsai has created an unforgettable paranormal adventure that is full of humour, passion, and depth. As a descendant of the Chinese god of medicine, ignored middle child Elle was destined...Paperback$5200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Win Son Presents a Taiwanese American Cookbook
A modern, brashly flavourful guide to cooking Taiwanese-American food, from Brooklyn’s lauded Win Son, Win Son Bakery, and Cathy Erway, celebrated writer and expert on the cuisine. Josh Ku, born in Queens to parents from southern Taiwan, and Trigg Brown, a native Virginian whose mentor was a Taiwanese-American chef, forged a friendship over food—specifically, excellent tsang ying tou, or "flies’...Hardback$6500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Made in Taiwan
Explore the taste and culture of Taiwan in this James Beard Award Finalist featuring never-before-seen exclusive recipes. “A vibrant, strikingly-photographed guide to the soul of Taiwan, told through food” (Serious Eats). 2024 IACP/JULIA CHILD FOUNDATION AWARD WINNER * NAMED A BEST COOKBOOK OF 2023 BY The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Wired, Good Housekeeping, Los Angeles Times, Delish, Epicurious,...Hardback$7999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Booker Prize WinnerTaiwan Travelogue
A bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history, and power. May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She's been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda....Paperback$5000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Four in Love
What is love to you? Is it the determination to find your soulmate, guided by the red thread of fate? Is it an ideal dream quashed by the pains of reality? Is it a quest to seek companionship in a virtual world? Or is it the bravery to hold hands when facing adversity? In this stunning, full-color collection, Taiwanese artist...Hardback$5400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Rebel Island
The gripping story of Taiwan, from the flood myths of ancient legend to its 'Asian Tiger' economic miracle — and the looming threat of invasion by China. Once dismissed by the Kangxi Emperor as nothing but a 'ball of mud', Taiwan has a modern GDP larger than that of Sweden, in a land area smaller than Indiana. It is the...Paperback$4800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Boba
Boba, or bubble tea—the addictive drink that originated in Taiwan in the 1980s—has taken the world by storm with shops popping up on every corner and lines out all their doors. In Boba, the founders of the first self-serve boba truck, MILK+T, show you how to make this addictive drink in your own home. From making the tapioca pearls (boba)...Hardback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Kawaii Café Bubble Tea
Make your own delicious bubble teas while enjoying fun anime illustrations with Kawaii Café Bubble Tea. No matter if you call it boba or bubble tea, this addictive drink that originated in Taiwan in the 1980s has taken the world by storm, with shops popping up on every corner and lines out all their doors. Kawaii Café Bubble Tea covers...Hardback$4400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Bubble Tea
Learn how to perfect the beloved Asian drink at home with Bubble Tea. This delicious, colourful book features 22 bubble tea recipes, from brown sugar, matcha, and jasmine and lime to grass jelly and coconut milk, pomegranate, and grenadine and pandan jelly. With a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to making your own tapioca pearls, easy-to-follow recipes for all the flavours imaginable,...Hardback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
I'm New Here
Fired from his job and dumped by his girlfriend, Taiwanese-British photographer Sean flies to Taipei to seek oblivion. Lost in the neon heat of his parents' homeland, though, all he finds is alienation. He spends his days sleeping feverishly in a bleak hotel bedroom, and his nights alternating between casual sex and a crappy striplit doughnut bar. Whatever he thought...Paperback$2899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Struggle for Taiwan
A gripping account of the past and future of Taiwan In the overwhelming chaos across Asia at the end of the Second World War, one relatively minor issue was the future of the Japanese colony of Taiwan, a large island some one hundred miles off the coast of Fujian. Handed to the Kuomintang-ruled Republic of China, in 1949 it suddenly...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden
Jun and Hong were scions of a once great southern Chinese family. Each other's best friend, they grew up in the 1930s during the final days of Old China before the tumult of the twentieth century brought political revolution, violence, and a fractured national identity. By a quirk of timing, at the end of the Chinese Civil War, Jun ended...Paperback$3599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Chop Fry Watch Learn
In 1949, a young Chinese housewife arrived in Taiwan and transformed herself from a novice to a natural in the kitchen. She launched a career as a cookbook author and television cooking instructor that would last four decades. Years later, in America, flipping through her mother's copies of Fu Pei-mei's Chinese cookbooks, historian Michelle T. King discovered more than the...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise
“A harrowing portrait of sexual violence and its thunderous reverberations. Through Jenna Tang’s incisive translation, the reader is brought along a heartbreaking and unflinching journey.”—Crystal Hana Kim, author of If You Leave Me Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise, the most influential book of Taiwan’s #MeToo movement, is a heartbreaking account of sexual violence and a remarkable reinvention of the trauma...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Stolen Bicycle
A writer embarks on an epic quest in search of his missing father’s stolen bicycle and soon finds himself caught up in the strangely intertwined stories of Lin Wang, the oldest elephant who ever lived, the soldiers who fought in the jungles of South-East Asia during the Second World War, and the secret worlds of the butterfly handicraft makers and...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Cat Mask Boy
In 1970s Hong Kong, a mischievous and clever cat-masked boy ventures into the lawless Kowloon Walled City to retrieve his lost report card before his mum finds out. Tiger is a seven-year-old boy growing up in 1970s Hong Kong. He prefers being clever to working hard, gets terrible grades in school, and dreams of being a superhero. One day, his...Paperback$1999Elsewhere:$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Hakka Cookbook
Veteran food writer Linda Lau Anusasananan opens the world of Hakka cooking to Western audiences in this fascinating chronicle that traces the rustic cuisine to its roots in a history of multiple migrations. Beginning in her grandmother's kitchen in California, Anusasananan travels to her family's home in China, and from there fans out to embrace Hakka cooking across the globe—including...Hardback$7599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Amah Faraway
A delightful story of a child’s visit to a grandmother and home far away, and of how families connect and love across distance, language, and cultures. Amah Faraway follows Kylie, who is nervous about visiting her grandmother—her Amah—who lives so far away. When she and Mama finally go to Taipei, Kylie is shy with Amah. Even though they have spent...Hardback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister
A major new biography from the internationally bestselling author of Wild Swans, Mao, and Empress Dowager Cixi—a gripping story of sisterhood, revolution, and betrayal, and three women who helped shape the course of modern Chinese history. SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN 2020 Meet the three women who helped shape the course of modern Chinese history; a gripping story of...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Lost in Taiwan (A Graphic Novel)
Lost in Taiwan (A Graphic Novel) wasn't Paul's idea. The last thing he's interested in is exploring new countries or experiencing anything that might be described as "cultural enrichment." But like it or not, he's stuck with his brother, Theo, for two weeks in Taiwan, a place that—while fascinating to Theo—holds no interest for Paul at all. While on a...PaperbackSold Out 
The Piano Tuner
This bestseller and winner of every major literary award in Taiwan is an elegiac novel about love and loss, broken dreams and desolate hearts—and music: "A delightful read." - Ha Jin. A widower grieving for his young wife. A piano tuner concealing a lifetime of secrets. An out-of-tune Steinway piano. A journey of self-discovery across time and continents, from a...HardbackSold Out
This Is Not My Home
This is not my backyard barbecue.This is not our car, these are not my fireflies.This is not my farmer's market and...This is not my home. When Lily's mom announces their family must move back to Taiwan to take care of her elderly Ah Ma, Lily is devastated to leave behind her whole life for a place that is most definitely...HardbackSold Out
Rare Whisky
Rare Whisky is a stylish exploration of the world's finest and rarest whiskies, exquisitely packaged in a hardback book with slipcase. This book looks at the most exceptional whiskies across the world, focusing on key producers such as Scotland, Ireland, the USA and Japan, as well as interesting rarities from the likes of India and Taiwan. With beautiful photography of...HardbackSold Out
CITIx60 City Guides - Taipei (Updated Edition)
Taiwan's distinct blend of Chinese and Japanese cultures, as a result of its unique history, comes to life in its charming capital. In Taipei, vibrant night markets, characterful cafés, and artistic endeavours are embraced by both the warm and welcoming locals, as well as travellers alike. Jacketed in a gorgeous city map illustrated by Whooli Chen, CITIx60 Taipei gives you...PaperbackSold Out-
The Next World War: The new age of global conflict and the fight to stop it
The Next World War takes readers behind the scenes of the most dangerous era of international tensions since the end of the Cold War, as countries and military forces prepare for potential large-scale combat on a scale unseen since 1945. From the corridors of power in Washington, Whitehall, Moscow and Beijing to the new frontlines of conflict in Ukraine, Taiwan,...PaperbackSold Out
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