Join us for a very special Bookoccino Event with one of our favourite authors and dear friend, Michael Robotham.

Michael Robotham, Tell Me Something True
Date: Thursday 24 September
Time: 6-7.30pm
Location: Bookoccino Bookshop
Tickets: Entry is Free with the purchase of a book ($34.99) or single ticket is $25
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MICHAEL ROBOTHAM’S FIRST EVER AUSTRALIAN SET NOVEL

The astonishing, emotional epic from Michael Robotham: a mystery, a coming-of-age tale and a love story wrapped into one, set against the simmering tensions of a small Australian town.

Small towns are quick to anger and slow to forgive, but Arlo Hackett doesn’t expect mercy when he emerges from a twelve-year prison sentence and makes his way back to Yulara, a waypoint on Australia’s Great Southern Road.

The last time Arlo was home, his brother Luke was charged with a terrible crime and Arlo was found guilty by association. His return to the former goldrush town is like cracking open a time capsule full of hatred and violence,
along with memories of the people he loved – the ones he couldn’t save.

Yulara wants Arlo gone, or worse, but every insult and humiliation pushes him to confront what really happened all those years ago.

The truth will shock you, surprise you, and break your heart.

About the Author
Before becoming a novelist, Michael Robotham was a feature writer and investigative reporter working in Britain, Australia and America, and with clinical and forensic psychologists as they helped police investigate complex, psychologically driven crimes. Michael’s debut thriller, The Suspect, which introduced clinical psychologist Joe O’Loughlin, sold more than a million copies around the world and is a major TV series starring Aidan Turner on ABC TV.

Michael’s standalone thriller The Secrets She Keeps was adapted for TV by Network 10 and the BBC.

Michael is the only Australian to twice win the UK’s prestigious Gold Dagger
Award for best crime novel, for Life Or Death and Good Girl, Bad Girl as well as the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for When She Was Good. Lying Beside You was shortlisted for the Australian Crime Writers Association’s Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction 2023. Storm Child, was a No. 1 national bestseller in Australia.

It was shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction 2025.