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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OUR TOP TEN AUGUST

MATILDA KIDS

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A BOOK WE LOVED

STORY TIME

OUR KIDS BOOK CLUBS

OUR BOOK CLUBS

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Matilda Society (10-12yrs)
MATILDA BOOK CLUB
red door book club
chapter & ink book club (13-15yrs)
magical minds book club (8-10yrs)

Adult Reading Guide

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Kids Reading Guide

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Escape the hustle of the suburban malls and visit us for a festive night of bookish delight this Thursday! Wander through leafy Stirling, taking in the sights and sounds of our beautiful town’s Christmas Shopping Night and pay a visit to the ma
Matilda Unwrapped: Part 2 has just dropped! Emilie, Kasey, Rose, Heather and Nadia are still reeling from the agony that is being asked to choose only five books to reflect a year of brilliant reading. Those that made the list are the stories we lov
This December forget Spotify Wrapped, and instead celebrate Matilda Unwrapped, where we unveil each of our bookseller’s favourite books of 2025. The agony is real as we toss and turn, forced to choose between our favourite children. Up first a
A novel is a long form over which to sustain a love letter, but Lily King does it with ease, immersing us in a story that spans 30 years and takes us from a college campus love triangle to the wrenching questions of mortality that confront us in midd
📚❤ The Books We Most Loved in November ❤📚 The hive mind attempted to take over again, but alas, it failed (this time). Lucky for you, this means six new books that we can emphatically thrust into your hands. Speaking of hands, you're in good ones
We are thrilled to have sent another exceptional South Australian writer to Grass Tree Gully in Deep Creek for this year’s Residency Fellowship. Earlier this month, Tom Gurn spent a week in magical surroundings with time to think, dream, walk
Did our children’s gift guide hit your inbox today? It’s filled to the brim with thoughtful suggestions from our children’s book experts - gifts for the tiniest family members right up to the teens haunting your halls. If you misse
📚❤ Our Weekly Top 9 ❤📚 Another week, another stack. Some favourites remain this week, with the award-winning, esoteric Flesh, Murder on North Terrace featuring the formidable Kate Cocks, and the sobering Mushroom Tapes sustaining their reign, and

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The weather might still be particularly wintery in our corner of the world, but the arrival of @bookpeopleau and @bookpeoplekids Summer Reading Guides is offering sunny relief amidst dreary weather. Packed with reviews on all the new releases we lov
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