A fascinating evening of art and history with Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee. The Washington Post writer discusses his new book Paris in Ruins: Love, War and the Birth of Impressionism with curator and Vault editor Alison Kubler. Impressionism was a complex reaction to 1870, otherwise known as 'The Terrible Year’. Fighting a losing war with Prussia, Napoleon III was swiftly defeated, deposed and exiled. A fledging republican government came to power at the same time as ...

The Northern Beaches has a highly engaged conservation community. With a full house overlooking Avalon Beach we gathered for an important discussion on native forests, legislation and environmental activism with two of Australia's foremost experts - Dr David Lindenmayer and Geoff Cousins. They were joined by Mackellar MP Sophie Scamps who recently launched her native forest pledge. We hope you enjoy this stimulating conversation, with some clever pointers on effectively campaigning for o...

Terra Nullius. A No Man’s Land. Met with European notions of civilisation, Indigenous Australia was brutally overlooked. But the worlds oldest living culture survives. Indigenous approaches to architecture are gaining ground. Indigenous voices are demanding respect and self-determination. 2023 will likely reveal how far we've come…Paul Memmott is an anthropologist and architect. For 5 decades he has been Director of the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre. His work has focussed on a range...

On January night a large group gathered at Moby Dicks, Whale Beach for Bookoccino's annual 'China Night', a foreign policy conversation hosted by Jane Perlez. This year we welcomed Michael Green of the US Studies Centre, author Linda Jaivin and Lowy Fellow Richard McGregor. If you would like to learn more about Bookoccino's acclaimed event series please join our mailing list

On the 31st of October 2022 we welcomed the inimitable Richard Fidler, discussing his new 'Book of Roads and Kingdoms' with Geraldine Doogue.

It was our pleasure to host Foreign Correspondents Damien Cave and Nick Bryant on Wednesday June 13 at Moby Dicks, Whale Beach. Together they discuss the experience of living abroad, what defines the Australian character and Why America is no longer the great nation it was.

A truly engaging and powerful discussion on the war in Ukraine. Hosted by Lowy fellow Richard McGregor, with Bobo Lo and Zoya Sheftalovich. Vladimir Putin's decision to invade Ukraine has turned global politics upside down. The US and Europe have co-operated more closely than they have for decades, along with allies like Australia, reinvigorating the West. Germany has committed to a huge boost in defence spending and Finland has dropped 70 years of neutrality. Energy prices have soared. ...

Our guest is Anthropologist Wade Davis who’s written a best seller on Colombia... its beauty, people and the nation's entanglement with the cocaine trade and the 50 year Colombian Civil War...His new book is entitled 'Magdalena River of Dreams: A Story of Colombia'Wade is interviewed by Martin Kane one of your friendly booksellers at Bookoccino.

Bookoccino's Jane Perlez (NYT) interviews Hugh White to discuss the role of a divided America and a rising China in the Asia-Pacific as well as many of the themes contained in his groundbreaking 2019 book "How to Defend Australia."Can Australia defend itself in the Asian century? How seriously ought we take the risk of war? Do we want to remain a middle power? What kind of strategy, and what Australian Defence Force, do we need? Hugh White AO is an Emeritus Professor of Strategic Studies...

A Bigger Picture has generated sensational headlines and was an instant best seller. In an interview with Peter White, a former radio journalist, the former prime minister ranges from the affect that his mother walking out on him at age nine had on his personality and career, to whether will there be a war with China, and the future of the Republican movement in Australia...as well as walking us through some of his infamous run-ins with US President Donald.J.Trump. This podcast was crea...

Episode 1, Bill Finnegan, one of America's most prominent man of letters, a long-time writer at the New Yorker. Bill is also an avid surfer, which he recounts in Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, which won the Pulitzer Prize and has been a consistent best seller at Bookoccino. In our first edition of Bookoccino Conversations, he is interviewed by Jane Perlez, the Pulitzer prize winning New York Times correspondent. Bill talks about the monumental swells he surfed around the world as well as som...