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His name was Zac. His last name depended on who knew him: an oligarch’s son, or the middle-class child of professionals. When his body was found in the Thames, it might have been dismissed

Poignant and powerful. Heartbreaking and wryly funny. With effortless wit, a felicity of phrasing, and memorable sentences (“she was as drunk as four skunks and a rhino”), Jones, author of the acclaimed bestseller An American

A tour de force. An ancient epic poem. Fiction within fiction. A novel with footnotes. Among the collections at the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, the narrator, Harlow Donne, a Canadian academic (as is Martel),

2026 Global Book Crawl 20 – 26 April We’re very excited to be part of this year’s crawl, alongside a145 other Australian bookshops and thousands more the world over. Meet fellow readers, chat with

On his deathbed, 87-year-old KJ Boone – who rose from childhood poverty, driven by caddying for rich men at the local golf club, to become an oil tycoon -examines his life with the help

The book tells her story from childhood, the love story with Mr. Pelicot, birth of their children, the good and bad times, and the horror that crept in unrecognised. It follows her into the

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Seeking to escape their quotidian middle-class suburban life, Maurice, a 42-year old socially-awkward printer, and Maralyn, a 31-year old clerk in the tax office, decided on a life at sea, the first stage a

The inside story of the greatest crash in Wall Street history | AFR Greed, corruption, tax evasion. Business leaders complaining about overregulation. Attacks on the US Federal Reserve board. Sweetheart, sham transactions. Bitter, partisan

You will not find a more captivating, fun read this summer. A rip-roaring caper by a former combat Marine officer in Iraq, Afghanistan, and who knows what other shadowy places. There’s Big Cheese Aziz,

“Pick up this book and you’ll find it hard to put down. It will be read around the world as a credible account of one of the strangest cases ever to come before a

Stone Free: From Choir Boy to Ganja Kingpin unravels the true story of Warren Anderson. A Californian misfit who turned his back on the American Dream. Reforged as James “Abdul” Monroe, he emerged from

  The rivalry between China and the US is between a state dominated by engineers, and one run by lawyers, concludes the author, who was born in China, grew up in Canada, worked in

  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 shopper With 15,000 copies printed and 7,500

Join us for an intimate evening of poetry, music and conversation at Bookoccino on Tues 14-Oct 7-9pm. Featuring works which celebrate the beauty of natural environments, remember our ties to nature, mourn the losses

    1929: The Inside Story of the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History, Andrew Ross Sorkin “. . .  a real eye-opener. . .  .a work of true scholarship, the fruits of eight years of research

Celebrating Stories That Shape Our Nation. Bookoccino is honoured to be the sponsor of the 2025 Walkley Book Award — a prize that stands at the pinnacle of Australian journalism and longform non-fiction writing.

October 2, 2025 The Walkley Foundation announced the longlist for the Walkley Book Award, part of Australia’s most prestigious journalism accolades, the Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism. The Walkley Book Award, supported by

Exquisite, funny, poignant.  This brilliant book is about a precociously gifted 15 year old boy. In a humdrum home with his overworked single father there is little for Nicholas to anchor to. He finds

Set in the early 1960s, JFK is president. From Guatemala, where Gabriel Dax, a hapless spy, uses his cover as a pedestrian travel writer, to gain an interview with a potential left-wing presidential candidate