OUR Book ClubS
Hello book lovers! Welcome to your local book club.
Matilda Bookshop now hosts three book clubs for different ages.
Each session has a cost of $7 and all book clubbers receive a 20% discount on the book of the month.
To be involved, please join one of the book clubs described below and you’ll be emailed when announced.
Hope to see you soon at one of Matilda Bookshop Book Clubs!
MATILDA BOOK CLUB
Adult readers
Convened by Molly
DATE: Tuesdays, monthly
VENUE: Stirling Hotel Library Room
COST: $7
We meet on a Tuesday evening each month in the Stirling Hotel Library Room from 7pm.
Drinks available for purchase at the bar.
Our Matilda Bookshop Book Club has been running for more than five years and is a lively, informal & informative meeting where we chat over the best in Australian fiction, new release fiction, classics and international fiction. The sessions are convened by Molly (who is also manager of the bookshop), and who has experience teaching literature and creative writing at a tertiary level. But most importantly, the evenings are fun and engaging.
If you are interested in receiving regular information about the book club, please sign up to the newsletter below.
JOIN MATILDA'S BOOKCLUB
TREMENDOUS TEENS
13-16 years
Convened by Heloise
DATE: Monday after school
VENUE: Matilda Bookshop
COST: $7
We meet on a Monday after school twice a term in Matilda Bookshop from 530pm to 630pm.
Yummy snack & drink provided.
Our Tremendous Teens Book Club is for 13-16 year olds who love books and reading and chatting! The sessions are convened by Heloise, an avid and passionate reader of young adult fiction, who will guide you through the best fiction for teen readers.
If you are interested in joining us for book chat, reading inspiration and a whole lot of fun, sign up to receive information by joining the book club newsletter below.
JOIN THE TREMENDOUS TEEN BOOKCLUB
MAGICAL MINDS
9-12 years
Convened by Kim
DATE: Tuesday after school
VENUE: Matilda Bookshop
COST: $7
We meet on a Tuesday after school twice a term in Matilda Bookshop from 530pm to 630pm.
Yummy snack & drink provided.
Our Magical Minds Book Club is for 9-12 year olds with a magical mind and a love of books and reading. The sessions are convened by Kim, who makes the sessions just delightful and guides the group with reading prompts and discussion points.
If you are interested in a fun, informal and friendly catch up about the very best in middle fiction, sign up to receive information by joining the book club newsletter below.
JOIN THE MAGICAL MINDS BOOK CLUB
OUR 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. Molly
PAST BOOK CLUB BOOKS
MATILDA BOOK CLUB
2020
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
2019
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Walking on the Ceiling by Aysegul Savas
Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi
The White Girl by Tony Birch
Lanny by Max Porter
The Erratics by Vicki Laveau-Harvie
Islands by Peggy Frew
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
Heart of the Grass Tree by Molly Murn
2018
The Children’s House by Alice Nelson
Normal People by Sally Rooney'
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
Flames by Robbie Arnott
Monkey Grip by Helen Garner
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
In the Garden of the Fugitives by Ceridwen Dovey
The Only Story by Julian Barnes
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
The Choke by Sofie Laguna
2017
The Passage of Love by Alex Miller
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
Tin Man by Sarah Winman
The Last Garden by Eva Hornung
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
House of Names by Colm Tóibín
Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
Barking Dogs by Rebekah Clarkson
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
2016
The Good People by Hannah Kent
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
LaRose by Louise Erdrich
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
Between a Wolf and a Dog by Georgia Blain
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar
2015
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
Nora Webster by Colm Toibin
The Golden Age by Joan London
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick de Witt
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
Sweet Caress by William Boyd
TREMENDOUS TEENS
2020
Call Down the Hawke by Maggie Stiefvater
2019
It Sounded Better in My Head by Nina Kenwood
MAGICAL MINDS
2020
Here in the Real World by Sara Pennypacker
2019
The Land of Roar by Jenny McLachlan
The Good Thieves by Katherine Rundell
The Monster Who Wasn’t by TC Shelley