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2023 STAFF FAVOURITE The second book from Fred’s & Chez Panisse alumni Danielle Alvarez is fresh, inspiring and delicious! This is a book for people who love to cook. If you were lucky enough

Green Dot, Madeleine Gray  In Green Dot, we follow Sydney-dweller and reluctant adult Hera as she starts a job as an online comments moderator. Hera both embodies and hyperbolises coming-of-age into adulthood today. She

Everyone loves a gift that keeps giving. Choose a Bookoccino Book Subscription for the book-lover in your life.  We carefully select and guarantee our Book of the Month. We select from multiple genres with

The Teacher’s Pet #^ The Definitive Guide to the Perimenopause and Menopause # Lola in the Mirror ^# Killing for Country: A Family Story # The Seven (#3 Buchanan and Lucic) # The Last

The Seventh Son, Sebastian Faulks. Who are we? Where did we come from? Neanderthal + Sapiens? Set 50 years in the future — Australia, Germany, the UK and US — Faulks, author of the acclaimed Birdsong, explores

A massively important book. With data and medical terminology, a manifesto to doctors to improve medical care, to move from treatment (Medicine 2.0) to prevention (3.0). At the same time, it is a book

To be free I had to squeeze the convict blood out of me drop by drop, word by word, book by book.  The highlight of the year, a work with the power to change

Lola in the Mirror is one of those books that once you open it, you don’t want to put it down until you have devoured every single word. Dalton’s Brisbane is note perfect. He

SEPTEMBER BEST SELLERS The Definitive Guide to the Perimenopause and Menopause*# Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life #^ The Boy Behind the Curtain The Covenant of Water Flawed Hero: Truth, lies and war crimes #^

It is 1873. Fallen on hard times, Mrs Eliza Touchet takes us residency as housekeeper for once famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth. Mrs Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism,

For 36 years, the disappearance of Lynette Dawson, a Northern Beaches nurse and housewife, was a mystery. Her husband, Chris Dawson, a high school teacher was a suspect, after he moved a 16-year old

We invite you to catch Ray’s appearance on The Drum with Julia Baird, for those who missed it. Discussing everything from The Voice, the survival of bookstores, and the upcoming US election on ABC’s The Drum

Our Book of the Month is The Trackers, by Charles Frazier A wealthy rancher fears that his wife’s earlier marriage will scuttle his plans to become a US Senator. A brilliant noir that captures

It has been called the defamation trial of the Century – Australia’s most-decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith against the media. The pictures of Roberts-Smith, square-jawed, ramrod straight, nattily attired in a dark suit, white shirt