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BOOK LAUNCH – A huge welcome to Sarah Rose, launching her beautiful book ABC Disability with cupcakes, sparkling wine and fun for the kids from 3pm Sunday 30 June. Come down, support his gorgeous

We are super excited to welcome Avalon local and debut author Nick Long for an afternoon of storytelling fun and waffles. The Forbidden Journal of Rufus Rumble is a funny space adventure for 7-11

New Cold Wars: David Sanger in conversation with Jane Perlez Pulitzer Prize winning White House and National Security correspondent for The New York Times, David Sanger, is coming to Bookoccino to talk about his new book, New

Paul Ham is a celebrated historian of conflict and the ideas that people are willing to live and die for. Born in Australia and living now in Paris, he is the author of 12 books

A perfectly immersive novel for devouring in a day. The Heart in Winter is a classic Western, a tale of two love bitten vagabonds on the run with destruction and revenge  at their heel. I’m

‘Vital, compelling, terrifying, revelatory — and a literary pleasure in its own right.’ — Anna Funder Join us to discuss ‘Hazzard and Harrower: The Letters’ – an extraordinary collection of writing from two of

Set in 17th Century UK and The Netherlands, Lauren Chater’s historical fiction novel “The Beauties” follows the lives of three individuals existing in close connection to the Royal Family. Emilia Lennox, a young married

Miranda Darling joins us, in conversation with Bookoccino’s Jo Yeldham, to discuss Thunderhead, her black comedy about one woman’s struggle to be free. On the outside, Winona is a seemingly unremarkable young mother: unobtrusive,

MEET JENNIFER CROFT SATURDAY 25 MAY Versatile author, critic, translator. Recipient of the Man Booker International Prize for her translation from Polish of Olga Tokarczuk novel Flights. Founder of The Buenos Aires Review. The

Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future by Ian Johnson   So much of what we know about China today comes from people who no longer live there.   “Sparks” is brilliant

“James” by Percival Everett It has been a long time since a book grabbed me in the opening pages and kept me reading unable to put it down. James is the runaway slave on

Acerbic. Iconoclastic. Sui generis.  All fit Kara Swisher, who has chronicled the rise of digital, the reading news not on paper but on mobile phones; of Netflix and streaming services disrupting Hollywood. In sketches

The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt We overprotect children in the real world and underprotect them online. It’s like sending them to Mars, with no protections. Play-based childhood has been replaced by phone-based childhood. The

How To Win An Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler, Peter Pomersantsev If you thought disinformation was a phenomenon of social media, you will be transfixed by how Hitler used ‘propaganda’ (‘disinformation, by

Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J. Bass Embrace the heft of this book. It is a rich history of wars and politics in