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Book Launch: Lee Holmes, Eat to Heal Thursday 23 July 5.15-7.00pm Bookoccino Bookstore Free Event, RSVP: lee@superchargedfood.com EAT TO HEAL: A COMPLETE PLAN TO REDUCE INFLAMMATION, CALM YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM AND SUPERCHARGE EVERY CELL

Legendary Journalist, Author (and local neighbour) Mike Carlton discusses his new book, The Burning Blue: Stories of the Navy’s warriors in the skies Date: 29th July Time: 5.30-7.30pm Location: Bookoccino Bookstore Get Tickets: $25/ticket,

BOOK LAUNCH Saturday 25 July 5.30-7.30pm Bookoccino Bookstore Free Event: Secure Tickets Telling the truth was never part of the plan. Neither was falling in love. Author Olivia Simons shares her debut romantic-comedic novel filled

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),

THE TITANIC STORY OF EVELYN: Lisa Wilkinson in Conversation with Juanita Phillips Date: Thursday 11 June Time: 6-8pm Location: Avalon Surf Club Get Tickets An epic tale, this is the never-before-told true story of

Eyewitness to Gaza Date: Thursday 18th June 2026 Time: 6pm – Doors open at 5.15 if you’d like to enjoy a drink ahead of the event Location: Avalon Beach Surf Club Tickets: $45, Tickets Here

Every Wild Soul: Winner of the Australian Fiction Prize Meet Tasmanian Author Katherine Johnson When: Thursday 4th June at 5.30pm Where: Bookoccino Bookshop Tickets: $15 Get Tickets Here Every Wild Soul is a beautifully

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

Date: Thursday 7th May 2026 Time: 6pm Location: Avalon Beach Surf Club *Doors open at 5.15pm so come early, grab a drink and enjoy the view Buy Tickets Join us for an evening with

One Night at Silver Lake with Author Katherine Scholes Date: Thursday, 23 April Time: 5.30-6.30pm Location: Bookoccino Bookstore, 66 Old Barrenjoey Road Avalon Beach 2107 Bookoccino is pleased to host Bestselling Tasmanian author, Katherine

Avalon Story Circle + Cacao Ceremony Date: Tuesday, March 31st Time: 7:00 – 9:00 PM Location: Bookoccino. 66 Old Barrenjoey Road, Avalon Cost: $45 (Early Bird $35 until March 17th) Book Tickets Here An evening

Date: Wednesday 15th April Time: 6-8pm at Avalon Beach Surf Club Doors open at 5.15pm if you’d like to purchase a drink ahead of event at Bangalley Bar A special Bookoccino Evening. In a

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

        Tuesday 31 March, 2026 6pm Avalon Beach Surf Club Tickets: $45 Take a walk on the dark side as Bookoccino kicks off our 2026 Events Season with a ‘Crime Night’

Description Join us for an evening of fun with friends; many laughs, great music, good vibes and generous prizes at Trivia Fridays. We have 7 tables with 6 people each. Drinks and mingling from 5:30pm Trivia

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