Proverse Hong Kong is based in Hong Kong with strong regional and international connections.

The International Proverse Prize for Unpublished Non-fiction, Fiction and Poetry is open to all irrespective of residence, citizenship or nationality.

The Publishers were born in the UK and have lived and worked in many countries. They visit, from time to time, Australia, Europe, Japan, Mainland China, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the USA.

Occasionally we help distribute in Hong Kong books published elsewhere, which have topics, references, or associations with Hong Kong or other parts of Asia.

We welcome enquiries for co-published editions.

Hong Kong today does not really look like the tranquil scene above. From time to time we will put up some images of today's Hong Kong in a sub-page to our "Home" page. Do take a look at them! Everyone lives in a different city. Even if you live in Hong Kong, you may not have seen what we have seen. And if you do not live here, it will give you a context for understanding where we are and to guess at the circumstances in which we work.

Preparations for Chinese New Year 2011.

PRESS RELEASE

 HONG KONG WORLD BOOKS

Proverse books are truly spreading their wings worldwide!

 On 1 December, Australian Patricia W. Grey launched her mystery novel, Death Has A Thousand Doors in the village of Ordino, high up in the Pyrenees, where much of the action of her novel is set. Well-received by a prize-winning Andorran writer, the book won notice in a local daily newspaper, Bon Dia, in advance of its Andorra launch on 1 December 2011.

  On 15 November, Lawrence Illsley, thoughtful writer of the modern epic poem, Astra and Sebastian, held a preview with his talented illustrator, Shelley Knowles-Dixon, in London, England.

  At home in Hong Kong, the toy poodle, Chocolate, who dictated his memoirs, Chocolate's Brown Study in the Bag, "through transmission of brainwaves", to then senior University of Hong Kong Administrator, Rupert Chan, "who served as scribe", was given three pages in Ming Pao weekly on naturday, 26 November. Some months previous to that, Rupert Chan gave a delightful interview, which appeared under the title, "Music and Chocolate", in the University of Hong Kong Bulletin, Vol. 12, No. 2, published in June 2011 (p. 24). Earlier than that, very soon after publication, Chocolate's Brown Study in the Bag was one of the subjects of Lydia Chan's column "Mrs Mak's Homework Exercise Book", in the Hong Kong Economic Journal, 28 March 2011.

  All books are available in and through Hong Kong bookstores and worldwide as distributed by the Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. Books are also available through bookshops and other retailers in the UK. It is not quite too late to get copies as holiday gifts or as holiday reading for oneself!

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Featured Publications; Fiction; Hong Kong Focus; Olympic Games, Soccer; Poetry; Memoirs; (Auto-)Biography; Travel Books; Chinese Language Books.

Proverse books can be ordered online. They can also be purchased and/or ordered through bookshops in Hong Kong and the UK. 

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