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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.

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We now have 6 book clubs! Different clubs for different ages and reading tastes, see what they’re reading this month.

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Our Matilda booksellers are now offering a book recommendation service. If you’d like to fill out the form here, our widely-read staff will be in touch soon with their personal selections.

DEEP CREEK WINNER ANNOUNCED

It is our absolute pleasure to announce TOM GURN as the winning recipient of the 2025 Deep Creek Residency Fellowship.

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As well as a fantastic range of books, we offer a whole lot of fun stuff for kids.

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We run 3 book clubs for kids - Magical Minds for ages 8 - 1o, The Matilda Society for ages 10-12 and Chapter & Ink for ages 13+.

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Children are welcome to gather on the mat in our cosy shop to listen to stories read by bookseller Kasey at 10am each Monday.

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We love supporting the Indigenous Literacy Foundation all year, but especially on Love Your Bookshop Day, when we donate 15% of all sales both in-store and online to help them in their crucial work. All children deserve to read books that mirror the
In his annual test of core body strength, Gavin is holding only a fraction of the books that you could take home this #loveyourbookshopday in our ✨Book Stack Competition ✨ Join us from 9am for Love Your Bookshop Day and your chance to win this amazi
📚❤ Our Weekly Top 9 ❤📚 What day is it? It's October 3rd (is it time to call this a niche reference?) 👱🏼‍♀️🚌🩷 On this week's top 9, we have a stunning stack of new releases, because it is that time of year again when they are coming in har
♥️ October Long Weekend ♥️ With a rainy old forecast for the week ahead, why wouldn’t you want to wander a cosy bookshop, getting lost in its nooks and crannies before cosying up at home with a book or twelve? Open Labour Day fr
We couldn't be more excited , alongside our friends at Burnside Library, to present Bob Brown for the launch of his new book, Defiance: Stories from Nature and Its Defenders. Bob, environmental and social justice campaigner and former senator, will
💘 The Books We Most Loved in September 💘 Another month has passed us by, lingering no longer than necessary and we, your camera-avoidant booksellers have been reading some absolute bangers this September. Now a party of eight (welcome back, Emilie
❤📚 Our Weekly Top 9 📚❤ Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to recount our top nine books of the week; the titles you seemingly can't get enough of. And why should you? Life is short. Indulge a little, you saucy thing. On this week's rotati
♥️ A Book We Love ♥️ Extraordinary, mesmeric, enigmatic. This is a journey into Australia’s Western desert via stories within stories, where Country is a living and alchemical (sometimes) malevolent presence. Finding the complex
📚♥ Our Weekly Top Nine ♥📚 Algorithms: Can't live with them, can't live without them. We're back to our regularly scheduled broadcast of a stack of books crisper than the mornings here on Peramangk Country. And the books? I'm so glad
🌏❤ MATILDA, TRANSLATED SEPTEMBER WRAP UP ❤🌍 For the inaugural Matilda, Translated Book Club, we discussed the International Booker Shortlisted novel, On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle, translated from the Danish by Barbara J. Haveland
Matilda Kids July Top Ten We have loved seeing so many eager readers in the shop during these school holidays - excitedly reaching for new reads, discovering old favourites and looking for the latest recommendation. These are the titles that most o
Matilda Kids Book Clubs are selling quickly for August! Have you booked in yet? ♥️ We can’t wait to talk about these delightful and twisty books with you, and to hear all about what you’ve been up to since we last saw you in June!
With a week left of school holidays, we know you might be running out of things to read! Have you picked up a copy of the Kids Reading Guide yet? Every book in it has been thoughtfully and lovingly selected by expert kids booksellers around Australia
🖤💛❤️ Happy NAIDOC Week ❤️💛🖤 NAIDOC week celebrates the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia for over 60,000 years. During the last year, we have had an abundance of incredible stories cr
♥️ Matilda Kids June Top Ten ♥️ What a month! With school holidays on the doorstep, we’ve loved seeing so many of our young friends in store choosing books to devour over their break. Have any of these books found a home on your
“As much as I love pats, and games, and people, and food… I love my handler most of all, and keeping her safe is my most favourite thing.” We had the most delightful morning reading My Name is Jemima at storytime today, learning a
❄️ The Kid’s Reading Guide for Winter 2025 has arrived in store! ❄️ Packed with the best new books for young readers, you’ll find recommendations ranging from picture books and junior fiction to middle grade and young adult reads too, as
✨🔮MATILDA KIDS GIVEAWAY 🔮✨ Thanks to our friends at @hachettekidsanz, we have a prize pack of all four Nevermoor books to gift to one lucky follower, as well as two tickets to our Meet the Author event with Jessica Townsend this coming Tuesday nig
✨ Story Time is back! ✨ Please join us in our cosy kids room at 10.00am on Monday mornings to read three stories with our brilliant children’s booksellers, Marina and Kasey. We choose a mix of new release and classic picture books to appeal to
From lots of dots to secret societies, stories of sisters and the enduring power of music, these are the books we have loved sending you home with in January! 📕Big Jim Begins (Dog Man 13) - Dav Pilkey 📕Thunderhead - Sophie Beer 📕The Midwatch - J
For as long as I can remember, I’ve dreamed of visiting Uluṟu on one of those special, rare days where rainfalls cascade down the rock. Rain on the Rock features stunning paintings by Valerie Brumby, one of the core artists at Walkatjara Art,