Welcome to Matilda Bookshop in the Adelaide Hills

Owned and staffed by booklovers, Matilda Bookshop is an independent bookshop with a loyal following of customers whose tastes and interests we love to get to know. Visit us in-store in Stirling in the beautiful Adelaide Hills, or browse all of our books here.

Australian Book Industry Awards Bookshop of the Year 2023
Australian Independent Bookshop of the Year 2019

OUR SUMMER READING GUIDE

View our Summer Reading Guide as chosen by us and other Australian independent booksellers.

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OUR EVENTS & PICKS

AUTHOR Q&As: ROBBIE ARNOTT

HOLIDAY TRADING HOURS

OUR TOP TEN 2024

MATILDA KIDS

We have loads of fantastic books for kids too, and even our own Story Time readings! READ MORE

A BOOK WE LOVED

STORY TIME

OUR KIDS BOOK CLUBS

KIDS’ READING GUIDE

View the latest Kids’ Reading Guide handpicked and reviewed by us and other Australian leading booksellers.

OUR BOOK CLUBS

\We have four fantastic book clubs for (almost!) all ages. FIND OUT MORE

MATILDA BOOKSHOP NEWS

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❤️‍🔥❤️ The Books We Most Loved in November ❤️❤️‍🔥 November has been a frenzy of beautiful new books, making it quite the challenge to pick only a single favourite! Our picks span the breadth of human experience from speculative fiction to
♥️ MEET YOUR BOOKSELLER ♥️ Gavin has co-owned Matilda Bookshop for 16 years, and certainly sold plenty of books in that time, but how much do you really know about him? Cutting his teeth in the music industry before living out *everyon
❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 Our Weekly Top Nine ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 From deep space looking back on our beautiful compromised planet (Orbital—winner of this year’s Booker Prize), to the scorching collection of intimate essays by Deborah Levy (The
🧡AN AUTHOR WE LOVE 🧡 We’re thrilled to bring to you, dear readers, the latest instalment of our author conversations where we ask ten questions about all things books 📚 and writing ✍️ This month we chatted to the wildly talented Robbie A
We were thrilled to have recently sent another exceptional South Australian writer to Grass Tree Gully in Deep Creek for this year’s Residency Fellowship. Last month, Rebecca Burton spent a week in stunning surroundings with time to think, drea
It’s well documented that all at Matilda Bookshop are card-carrying members of the Helen Garner Appreciation Society. Garner’s contributions to the Australian literary canon are prolific, and just when we wonder what she could write about
We are thrilled to announce that the Summer Reading Guide is out now, brimming with books for all sensibilities and all occasions. Our lovely Jo has worked alongside indie booksellers across Australia to curate and review a selection of books perfec
❤️‍🔥📚 Our Weekly Top 9 📚❤️‍🔥 From Stone Yard devotionals to secrets from flower farms, with Australian gospels and elements of Marie Curie in between, these nine lovely (incredible) books are the top nine sellers for the week that was🤩✨
📚 A WEEK OF READING 📚 As booksellers, over the course of a week, each of us picks up and puts down a range of books. Some stick, and end up coming home with us. This is what fresh-faced Heather, our enthusiastic and cookbook loving fantasy reader
❤️‍🔥💐 Our Weekly Top 9 💐❤️‍🔥 From the beauty & abundance of cut flowers, the majesty of Tasmanian highlands, the wetness of a quiet Irish village, the power of storytelling in Crosby, Maine, a (wild) misfit’s story of love and

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✨🦕 Birthday Shopping for a 3 Year Old 🐛✨ Esther, who we affectionately refer to as the 📚Bookshop Baby 📚 is turning three tomorrow! I’ll be wrapping these beautiful books to join our library at home! 🎂 The Birthday Music Book - This book
We are thrilled that so many of our favourite authors have released new books lately, whether the latest in a series, a new standalone novel, or an entire new series released at once! 🤯 Stay tuned for more new releases from our favourites!
✨ MATILDA KIDS RECOMMENDS ✨ Jo absolutely loved ⚡️Thunderhead ⚡️and we know the young readers in your life will too! ⚡️⚡️⚡️ This funny, heartfelt, music filled novel is about the very awkward Thunderhead. They have one awesome friend (who moves to
🎄 As December inches ever closer, so do long summer days ☀️ filled with endless possibilities! Shop our Christmas collection of activity books, stickers, magic painting and colouring for the perfect school holiday boredom-busters 🎄
💙🩷 One Week until Love Your Bookshop Day 🩷💙 October is shaping up to be a big one, as we bring you a bevy of brilliant conversations at our Meet the Author events. Before all that though, we want to celebrate the wonder of bookshops, and their w
Isn't it the best feeling when the next book in a series you love ❤ is released into the world? 🌏 Even better when you were just casually perusing your local bookshop and THERE IT IS! Completely unexpected, without any fanfare... the one you have b
MATILDA KIDS TOP FIVE ❤🧡💛💚💙 Your favourite choices run the gamut from topsy-turvy rhyming picture books to chillingly intense young adult reads! 🤗🤪😱 We are quietly chuffed to see Wolf Road taking up semi-permanent residence in the top five (
🖐 Matilda Kids Top 5! Spiders and stars! 🕸 ⭐ Two different kinds of apocalypse! 😱 Prehistoric wonder! 🐺 Yes! Yes please to all of the above! You have covered such splendidly niche subjects in your top choices for the week that was readers (or
❤ Favourite Nursery Rhymes... with a TWIST 💛 We have noticed a prevalence of picture books featuring classic nursery rhymes, but with a bit if a mischievous twist! 😏 In One Little Duck 🦆 Mother Duck forgets to call "Quack, quack, quack, qua
Now we all love a good Summer fling of a romance novel, something light and lovely to take on a beach date with yourself, BUT I propose to you… isn’t Winter the TRUE season for romantic reads? Isn’t the frosty atmosphere simply beg
An intrepid spirit connects the books in your top five this week. We heartily approve! Roz the Robot, Gwen and her pack, Bea and Cad as well as soon-to-be-silver-screen-stars Annie Shearer and Runt are all off on huge adventures that will test their