Welcome to Matilda Bookshop in the Adelaide Hills
Matilda Bookshop is an independent bookshop, owned and staffed by book-lovers. With a loyal following of customers whose tastes and interests we love to get to know, Matilda has just beautiful books for everyone. Our extensive online catalogue can be browsed here and we offer free postage within South Australia. This local Hills institution, voted best Independent Metro Bookseller in Australia 2019, is open seven days.
We host an extensive schedule of fascinating author events throughout the year at our Meet the Author events held in the shop and at a range of other venues. And we also now run three engaging Book Clubs for different ages.
AUSTRALIAN INDEPENDENT BOOKSHOP OF THE YEAR 2019
HILARY MANTEL MARCH 5
PRE-ORDER NOW
Hilary Mantel’s much anticipated The Mirror & the Light is published in Australia on Thursday March 5th. We’ll be selling this, the third in the best-selling, highly acclaimed Thomas Cromwell series, for the very special price of $35 ($45rrp) for two weeks only. And, as a special bonus, if you pre-order now you’ll receive a nifty Hilary Mantel tote bag emblazoned with a quote about beheading, perfect for the weekly shop!
Pre-order now by clicking here, visiting us in the shop or on 08 8339 391.
STAFF PICK OF THE WEEK
WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING
Where the Crawdads Sing is a meditation on the healing imperative of nature and what it means to live fully present to its cycles and ecosystems. It is also a story of isolation, abandonment and a crushing fall from innocence. The 'Marsh Girl' learns to survive alone in the marsh and estuaries of her birthplace and experiences prejudice and worse from the town-folk who shun her. When a local football star is murdered, the Marsh Girl, Kya, must draw on the resilience the wild places have given her and the wild places of her heart. I LOVED this! MOLLY
WHAT WE’RE READING
MATILDA STAFF
Emilie
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams (out April)
Gavin
Indelicacy by Amina Cain (out March)
Heloise
Under a Dancing Star by Laura Wood (out now)
Joanna
A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry (out March)
Kim
The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Dare (out March)
Molly
Desire Lines by Felicity Volk (out March)
ADELAIDE WRITERS’ WEEK
ADELAIDE WRITERS’ WEEK
All of us at Matilda‘s are looking forward, to heading down the hill, as we say here, and enjoying Adelaide Writers’ Week. It starts tomorrow morning at 9:30am and runs through to Thursday the 5th of March.
We still have a few printed programs left or you can view the full schedule by visiting the Writers’ Week website here.
We currently have an extensive selection of the books being launched and discussed on our shelves, if the lines in the tent are too long you can always browse our selection on our website.
See you down there.
MATILDA BOOKSHOP BOOK CLUB FEBRUARY
February Book Club: Elizabeth Strout’s Olive, Again
This month at Matilda Bookshop Book Club we read the blazingly brilliant, Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout. In a rare instance of solidarity, our book club all agreed that this latest offering from Strout was dazzling. Olive emerges again older, resplendent and like some kind of curmudgeonly guardian angel. This sequel to Olive Kitteridge is told through a series of interconnecting stories, which sees the focus shift from the minutiae of Olive’s world, to a cast of other townsfolk (and their own messy heartbreaks) whose lives are touched by Olive in various ways. While Olive negotiates her ungracefully ageing self, the connections between everyone and everything in her town of Crosby, Maine & beyond are beautifully & seamlessly woven together. Strout can really write a sentence! This book was unanimously loved by the group.
THE BEST SUMMER BOOKS!
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