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Join us for special dinner with pre-eminent garden designer Paul Bangay.Paul’s new book A Life in Garden Design is his most personal yet, celebrating his lifelong love of nature, beauty and creativity.   Enjoy

Our dear friend Richard Flanagan returns to Bookoccino for Question 7, a love story infused with vibrant memories and remnant’s of the author’s life, from his father’s time as a Japanese POW to the

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

Lola in the Mirror is Trent Dalton’s new novel. A powerful portrait of a young woman deciding between flight or fight, it is “is big, fast moving, blackly funny, violent, heartbreaking and ultimately beautiful”.

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

One of the country’s most respected investigative reporters, David Marr discovers that his forebears were members of the Native Police and involved in atrocities during Australia’s Frontier War. Killing for Country: A Family Story

Belinda Jeffery is one of Australia’s best loved cookery writers and teachers. It is our great pleasure to welcome her to Bookoccino for a special in-store lunch party. We will be serving favourite Belinda

Be the first to hear The Teacher’s Pet podcast creator Hedley Thomas talk about his new book. He take us back to the scene of the crime to talk about the journey to justice

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 #^

Bookoccino and Avalon Family Medical Practice are excited to welcome GP, and menopause specialist Dr Louise Newson to discuss her latest book, The Definitive Guide to the Perimenopause and Menopause. This will be followed

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,