Summer's here and many of Hong Kong's business figures will soon be off for a much-needed holiday. But what books will be packed into suitcases with the swimming costumes and sun-tan lotion?
Business figures contacted by Your Money reveal reading lists ranging from popular science to crime mysteries to books on the Middle East.
And because many of Hong Kong's high-flyers are not completely comfortable with swapping bespoke suits for Bermuda shorts, there is the odd financial title tucked in for good measure.
Minority shareholder campaigner and editor of webb-site.com David Webb plans to read books that try to explain how the universe got here in a way that non-scientists can understand. Mr Webb is currently tackling The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene and hopes to move on to The Fabric of the Cosmos by the same author later in the summer.
Mr Webb says he avoids novels as he sees enough fiction in his daily work. 'I don't normally read fiction, except in some listed companies' annual reports,' he said.
Morgan Stanley advisory director Peter Churchouse will be swapping research for fiction this summer as he settles down with Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code - a murder mystery tale where the works of Leonardo Da Vinci lead to a search for the Holy Grail.