News & Reviews

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

  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 a lively Sunday lunch event with Australian icon Bryan Brown and his daughter Matilda Brown, as they chat about his new coastal thriller, The Hidden. From Sweet Jimmy to The

    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

Join us Saturday 11 October to celebrate reading and the importance of independent bookstores in our local community. Sally, Ray, and the team are planning a fun day with: – On-the-spot poetry writing by

Dirtbag Billionaire: How Yvon Chouinard Built Patagonia, Made a Fortune, and Gave It All Away, David Gelles   He had  ‘a congenital aversion to authority,’ was arrested for vagrancy, revolutionised mountain climbing, scaling the

I did not expect to find “Is a River Alive?” such an interesting even easy read. In flowing lyrical prose at once descriptive and informative. Macfarlane reveals the beauty of nature and the importance

Miles Franklin Literary Award 2025 Winner Ghost Cities by Siang Lu This profound, highly imaginative novel cleverly draws on Chinese history to explore the absurdity of modern life and work. A young man named

Inside this Winter Reading Guide * Celebrate our cover artist, Tim Schultz. It was a privilege to visit Tim and witness his thoughtful, playful, inquisitive intellect reflected in his impressive library * A wide variety of

Join us on Saturday 16 August from 2pm for an afternoon of book-specials, games, competitions, performances and poetry for local kids! Plus, register with us and receive special access for 20% off our full

  You must read this smart, tragic, humorous story! Julia: Funny, smart, and strangely moving, I absolutely loved this book! Set in ancient Syracuse, but written with a modern Irish Street wit, it follows two

A wickedly funny satire. An academic flees a recent break up and lands in the absurd heart of Middle Eastern politics, charged with running a de-radicalisation program, armed with nothing but naïvely good intentions.