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The 2024 Bookoccino Reader’s Book of the Year winner is…. Table for Two by Amor Towles. Ahead by a good margin, Amor Towles leads a cast including (according to popularity): Amor Towles with Table for Two

  One of the world’s greatest, most influential – and most recognised – actors for 50 years. Now, Al Pacino writes about how he has done it. A hardscrabble childhood in the Bronx, acting

During Dec 24 and Jan 25 we are offering a free kids hot chocolate for each coloured-in drawing brought into Bookoccino.  

Dear Reader, Thank you for casting your vote on your favourite book among the 12 books we picked in 2024 as Book of the Month. We will count all votes and announce the Reader’s

With love and respect we commemorate and celebrate the life of Susan Duncan, the redoubtable author and Pittwater local, who passed away at her beloved boat-access only home on Salvation Creek last weekend. As

A master of historical fiction with strong, independent women as the lead characters — The Rose Code; The Alice Network — Quinn doesn’t disappoint with the story of four women who move into a

  A literary gem. In an era before cars, when graziers offer a bounty for a puma who is killing their sheep, twins Iris and Floyd, down-and-out children of alcoholic ex-convicts, ride their horses

As perfect a novel as you’ll ever find. Wry and gentle, atmospheric and absorbing, Time of the Child is an enriching story about love and second chances by master storyteller Niall Williams. There are very few

Hello Friends of Bookoccino, Welcome to your Summer Reading Guide! This is our sixth edition and our favourite one yet. You can click the image to view or download your guide via the button

The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates   Words, books, writing, storytelling — the power to haunt, to change the world. With the force of a prosecutor and the lyricism of a poet, Coates takes us with

You can support our bookshop and promote your business to our community by advertising with us. Our reading guides are more than a catalogue for Christmas shoppers. Our next edition features cover art by

    THE MIGHTY RED by Louise Erdrich   One of those books you can’t wait to get home to. Funny and tragic in equal measure, The Mighty Red is a quixotic look at how

There is much doubt cast on Rooney’s talent as a writer, particularly following the wild success of Normal People. She is habitually positioned in a binary: a once-in-a-generation genius or over-rated, her prose hollow

  In minute-by-minute, fast-paced, riveting detail, Ben Macintyre,  tells the story of the seizure of the Iranian embassy in London in April 1980, a crisis largely over shadowed by the Americans being held hostage

The latest book from staff favourite Amor Towles is a sophisticated collection of six great short stories and a novella. Short stories are sometimes a hard sell, but we plead with you to stay the course. They