News & Reviews

December Book of the Month – Time of the Child by Niall Williams

As perfect a novel as you’ll ever find. Wry and gentle, atmospheric and absorbing, Time of the Child is an enriching story about love and second chances by master storyteller Niall Williams. There are very few
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Summer Reading Guide 2025

Hello Friends of Bookoccino, Welcome to your Summer Reading Guide! This is our sixth edition and our favourite one yet. You can click the image to view or download your guide via the button
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Avalon Village late night shopping

20 Nov 2024 Events, News & Reviews
Thurs 19-Dec: Avalon Village late night shopping with Music, Carols, Face Painting and a visit from Santa, 4-9pm
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The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates   Words, books, writing, storytelling — the power to haunt, to change the world. With the force of a prosecutor and the lyricism of a poet, Coates takes us with
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Bookoccino Media Kit – Advertise with us

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 shoppers. Our next edition features cover art by
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November Book of the Month – THE MIGHTY RED by Louise Erdrich

    THE MIGHTY RED by Louise Erdrich   One of those books you can’t wait to get home to. Funny and tragic in equal measure, The Mighty Red is a quixotic look at how
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October Book of the Month: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney 

There is much doubt cast on Rooney’s talent as a writer, particularly following the wild success of Normal People. She is habitually positioned in a binary: a once-in-a-generation genius or over-rated, her prose hollow
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The Seige by Ben Macintyre

03 Oct 2024 News & Reviews
  In minute-by-minute, fast-paced, riveting detail, Ben Macintyre,  tells the story of the seizure of the Iranian embassy in London in April 1980, a crisis largely over shadowed by the Americans being held hostage
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At The Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning With China by Edward Wong

A riveting family memoir. The author’s father was a soldier in Mao’s army in the 1950s.   His loyalty turned to disenchantment and escape to America.   Wong was New York Times bureau chief
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Rebellion: How Antiliberalism is Tearing America Apart — Again, by Robert Kagan

14 Jul 2024 News & Reviews
Rebellion: How Antiliberalism is Tearing America Apart — Again, by Robert Kagan.   The next time someone asks me to ‘explain America’ — how can Trump be so popular; why is the country so politically
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July Book of the Month: Earth by John Boyne

02 Jul 2024 News & Reviews
Two Irish football superstars find themselves in court facing sexual assault charges. Robbie is cocky, entitled, privileged; Evan, reserved, self-made, escaping a poor and difficult upbringing. All evidence points to their guilt. As the
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Our June Book of the Month

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
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The Beauties by Lauren Chater

20 May 2024 News & Reviews
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
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“Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future” by Ian Johnson

01 May 2024 News & Reviews
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
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Book of the Month – May

“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
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