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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

Friday Night Poetry Slam Ever been to a poetry slam? We are shaking up another Friday night this summer with an interactive in-store performance poetry competition, encouraging diverse poets and performers to share words,

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

A riveting family memoir. The author’s father was a soldier in Mao’s army in the 1950s.   His loyalty turned to disenchantment and escape to America.   Wong was New York Times bureau chief

Rebellion: How Antiliberalism is Tearing America Apart — Again, by Robert Kagan.   The next time someone asks me to ‘explain America’ — how can Trump be so popular; why is the country so politically