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Friends and Readers, With a cheeky Ben Quilty cover, reading recommendations from Kamila Shamsie, Geraldine Brooks, Mohsin Hamsid, Anna Funder and Richard Fidler, as well as from everyone at Bookoccino our 2022 Summer Reading guide is

As we edge toward Christmas publishers begin to put on a spectacular show and booksellers get excited. Here are a couple of things that we’re getting excited about this August. Its just the beginning

Our latest newsletter introduces new events with Geraldine Brooks, Mike Donaldson, Sophie Hansen and Annie Herron, Sandi Logan and Bill Leimbach and in-store French lessons, our regular storytime and our favourite reads for the

The Booker judges have announced their shortlist of 6 books and we’re betting on The Promise by Damon Galgut. His remarkable new novel  (all of his novels are remarkable) is a sly, sweeping family saga centred on

The Booker prize released its 2021 longlist on Tuesday, including Bookoccino staff favourites Rachel Cusk, Damon Galgut, Maggie Shipstead and Francis Spufford on a 13-strong list of titles vying for the shortlist, to be

Oh, Rachel Cusk. So cool and indifferent. Inspirer of division among literary friends; omnipotent and intentionally obtuse. Half of Bookoccino love you, and, because we love our better halves we dedicate May to you.

Visited by some of Australia’s finest musicians for intimate Friday night and Sunday morning sessions, Bookoccino is a unique live music venue in a quiet village. We serve excellent coffee, sumptuous French, Italian and

Kati   An excerpt from ‘The Committed’ by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Chapter 1 I may no longer be a spy or a sleeper, but I am most definitely a spook. How can I not

You know when you say something is your favourite, and then you feel bad for all of your other favourites? Well that’s where we find ourselves this month….torn between a book and a hard

Greetings from the North Northern Beaches      We always knew we were special; privileged to live in this idyllic land of endless beaches and sunshine. Now you might say we’ve gone from Paradise to

Sit in on a chat between two of our literary idols ~ Malcolm Knox and Christos Tsiolkas ~ this Thursday night. Discussing Malcolm’s latest (and greatest) novel, Bluebird, the two friends talk about personal

  Cooking for comfort? Whether quarantine has turned us into experimental chefs or habitués of the take-away, we can continue to explore our love for good food with beautiful new cookbooks! August is a

THE CASE FOR CLASSICS   For most of us, our relationship with classic literature started young. In our English class rooms we were introduced to Orwell and Salinger, Austen and Shakespeare, and whether their

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.” -Martin Luther King, Jr. In his 1999 bestseller ‘Why Weren’t We Told’ Australian historian Henry Reynolds wrote frankly about his personal journey to understand

Rules of Civility is a kaleidoscopic portrait of 1930s New York. Bookoccino’s Pascale Kahn talks with Amor Towles about his glittering debut. Our heroine Katey Kontent navigates a world as effervescent as it is