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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.

OUR TOP 5

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

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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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Do you need a hand choosing your next book?

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.

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

KIDS BOOK CLUBS

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+.

STORYTIME

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

OUR KIDS TOP 5

Oh Dear, Look What I Got! by Michael Rosen

Dads and Dogs by Mick Elliott

Unicorn Post by Emma Yarlett

Oceanforged 1 by Amelia Mellor

Brown Bear Wood - it’s Busy down in the Woods Today by Rachel Piercey

ADULT READING GUIDE

Discover this season’s must-read new books, selected by Australia’s leading booksellers

KIDS READING GUIDE

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📚❤ Our Weekly Top 9 ❤📚 Phwoah! What a week. Regardless of if you are paying attention to the zeitgeist, or you are blissfully unplugged from it all (how are you reading this?), here are our top books of the week that offer a funny, tender, or perh
♥️ MATILDA BOOKSHOP CHARITY DAY ♥️ Tomorrow is our monthly charity day where 15% of the value of each book sold, either in the shop or via our website, is donated to an organisation we believe in. Tomorrow your book purchases will hel
📚♥ Our Weekly Top Nine ♥📚 What starts with T, and end with -ine? Father's Day? Wrong. Top Nine. While we wait for spring to arrive on Permangk Country, here are some certified bangers to keep you going until the sun sticks around fo
Join us, alongside our friends at Burnside Library, as we host the charming and witty Lainie Anderson for the launch of Murder on North Terrace: A Petticoat Police Mystery. Lainie will be in conversation with Sandy Verschoor in what is sure to be a n
Join us, alongside our friends at Burnside Library, as we host Craig Silvey for the South Australian launch of Runt and the Diabolical Dognapping. Craig will be in conversation with our very own Kasey Chambers, as we return to Upson Downs and the dog
Join us, alongside our friends at Adelaide Hills Libraries, as we host Heather Rose to celebrate her new book, A Great Act of Love. Heather will be in conversation with Hannah Kent to discuss this enthralling tale of legacy, love and the making of ch
❤‍🔥❤ The Books We Most Loved in August ❤❤‍🔥 Spring is almost upon us, and we, your frozen booksellers, are ready for the warmer weather to grace us with its glorious presence. While we thraw out on Peramangk Country, here are some piping-
Our calendar over the next few months is brimming with a bevy of events to satisfy everyone from young to old. We’ve partnered with our friends down the road, at @ahclibraries to bring you these two events at the Coventry Library. Visit the
❤️📚 Our Weekly Top 9 📚❤️ In the wise words of the divisive Katy Perry: TGIF. You’ve made it through the 34th week of the year, which means that there’s only…actually, I’m not going to bring up the C-word just yet. Our top
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,