Lok Ma Chau is the new border crossing, designed to take some of the real estate and traffic pressure from the other crossing reachable by MTR, Lo Wu.
Compared with Lo Wu, it is not nearly as crowded. Opened only last year, the facilities inside the station are excellent though unfortunately, there is no taxi stand outside so getting one is a little chaotic.
The picture below is of the Shenzhen River which forms the border between Hong Kong and Mainland China.
Once you have passed through immigration, you are on the Shenzhen side which is called Huanggang. Go down to the subway and take it four stops north to Shaoniangong on line 4 (refer to the map here). The book mall is across the road from exit D as shown in the photograph below. A good street map is available here.
There are several book stores within the mall as well as a music shop, restaurants etc. More information about it is available (in Chinese)from their website.
They have a huge range of books, mainly in Chinese but there is also a collection of English books. For example, Henry David Thoreau's Walden was 18 RMB.
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