Manila must be busy....

There seems to have been a rush on books on Manila and the Philippines from bookshops in Harbour City. Wanted to find something for a friend of mine....not a book, map or language guide in sight....when I asked at Swindon's the guy just said..."all gone".....same at PageOne. I can buy a guide book for almost anywhere in the world...including this new publication from Lonely Planet....Guide to the Falkland Islands. A book I will remember as the Falklands has always been somewhere I would like to visit if I were in that neck of the woods. Seriously.

Is there something happening in the Philippines that nobody has told me about....should I just head on out to Manila to find out what I am missing....?