My Cantopop Nights

Tracing her own life and career alongside the Hong Kong music scene, Moss emerges here as an author of exceptional vision... This is a book not simply for those who love Moss’s music, but for anyone seeking to understand how complicated, tender histories unfurl in our present—and how art emerges to help us through.

Jessica J. Lee, author of Dispersals

One of my favourite musicians on some of her favourite musicians. A beautiful meditation on how belonging is something we create day by day, year by year.

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of The Sleep Watcher

An incredibly honest and personal memoir that talks about something universal - finding friendship, understanding family, creating an identity in a world that's messy, layered, and complex

Dan Thompson

A captivating memoir-meets-cultural history that blends a modern history of Cantopop with Emma’s own personal journey to reconcile with her identity and Chinese heritage... I was captivated from start to finish and left feeling both moved and more knowledgeable.

Catherine Anne Davies (a.k.a The Anchoress)

My Cantopop Nights is a wondrous thing: fresh, evocative, self-aware, fantastically light of touch, and wholly original... I read it in one headlong, heartsore sweep

Sarah Howe, author of Foretokens

My Cantopop Nights brilliantly captures the sweet sorrow of lost places and lost time. It's a chance to time-travel in vivid sound and colour through Emma-Lee Moss's memories to '80s Hong Kong and back. I loved it.

Becky Barnicoat, author of Cry When the Baby Cries

Emma-Lee Moss brings her lyrical brilliance as a songwriter to this dreamy memoir that interweaves personal history with iconic Hong Kong songs. A must-read for anyone who has ever loved music.

Doretta Lau, author of How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?

Her writing unspools beautifully, connecting childhood, womanhood and motherhood and piecing together the complex parts of an identity that exists between continents. The lens of Hong Kong’s musical heritage is fascinating: I loved reading about the queens of Cantopop and how rebellious singers like Faye Wong and Anita Mui defied convention

Kate Hutchinson

Captures that era of Hong Kong music with such warmth and clarity. It’s a scene that shaped generations, and here it feels vivid, alive, and essential... Transcendent and transportive, with prose that kept me hooked to the very last line

Angela Hui, author of Takeaway

Fascinating... a beautiful memoir that celebrates the hidden forces that make our lives into something special

Stylist

Prepare to meet your new favourite playlist

Dan Schreiber