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22.01.2022 Here's our monthly newlstetter, it's a brief snapshot of what we've been up to in the last month and what's coming up.

21.01.2022 While we’re not going to actually be inside our lovely bookshop for the next little while, six days , our website matildabookshop.com.au Is open 24/7 and we’ll be processing, posting and delivering orders just as soon as we can once we all emerge safe and sound from this....

19.01.2022 Matilda Bookshop supports @naidocweek and First Nations' authors, illustrators, thinkers, and publishers. We acknowledge that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were Australia’s first explorers, first navigators, first engineers, first farmers, first botanists, first scientists, first diplomats, first astronomers and first artists. Always Was, Always Will Be.

18.01.2022 This is such a lovely article about bookshops.

18.01.2022 In this year, which has been like no other year , more than ever we’re urging you to shop early and local for Christmas With the disruptions to global publishing supply chains and increased pressure on local printers we simply can’t guarantee that we’re going to have every best-selling book in December. We know thinking about Yuletide gift-giving in October seems a brutal challenge but you’ll thank us later. Promise. If there’s a book that’s perfect for someone and you see it in a shop, ours for instance, we strongly, strongly recommend buying it and stashing it away for a few months time.

18.01.2022 First in a short, six days , series of what all of us at Matilda’s are reading during this circuit breaker / unexpected lockdown. Today’s comes from the newest member of our cohort of book-lovers, Kasey. Welcome ‘Morrigan Crow has been keeping me company on day one of isolation, in Hollowpox, the latest instalment of the Nevermoor series.... Escaping into Morrigan’s world whilst lounging under the towering gums in my backyard has been the perfect respite from the last few days.’

16.01.2022 The weekend is nearly upon us and to celebrate this delightful reality, here’s your Top 9 bestsellers for this week. Nice to see some new entries in the mix. With the warmer weather sure to be around the corner, what will you be reading on these long summery days to come? These bestsellers and many many more stack our shelves. come say hello and have a quiet peruse. ... Open Saturday 9-5, still no Sunday trading at this stage. Happy reading! #reading #book #bookstagram #shoplocal #matildabookshop #adelaidehills #topnine

13.01.2022 Congratulations to all the authors, illustrators and publishers announced as winners in the CBCA Book of the Year Awards 2020. Great selection of books and great ideas for your kiddies Book Week celebrations. #cbca #bookweek2020 #literacymatters #matildabookshop #shoplocal

12.01.2022 Day 3, and fingers crossed for the last time, of what we were reading during this short but intense lockdown. This one is from Jo and yesterday’s, for any completists, came from Gavin. Jenny Offill’s Weather has been a huge favourite of everyone at Matilda’s who’ve read it and @joannamaryhill understands why. ‘Jenny Offills beautifully constructed short paragraphs are the perfect reading material for these crazy times. I loved this book and couldn’t put it down.’

12.01.2022 This beautiful, brutal ember-storm of a novel is Flanagan back to his best. It follows a seemingly close-knit Tasmanian family as they unsuccessfully try to come to terms with the increasingly poor health of their aged mother. Set against the backdrop of a world ablaze, Living Sea.. is suffused with both sorrow and fierce anger at the irreversible decline of the world around us. Flanagan is too adroit for this to be a one-dimensional climate change book though. This is a c...larion call for meaningful connections, between humans and with the natural world, to prevent the endless vanishings we choose to ignore each day. Gavin (I somehow feel as if I have unknowingly and subliminally ripped off the ember-storm line, so kudos and apologies in advance to the originator:)

11.01.2022 There is still time to book in for tonight’s much-anticipated chat with @trentdaltonauthor Join us via Zoom at 7pm to hear all-round nice guy, best-selling author and one of our firm favourites Trent Dalton chat to @laurakroetsch about his recently released second novel, All Our Shimmering Skies. Tickets available via the events page of our website.

06.01.2022 IMEET THE AUTHOR: HELEN GARNER It’s now just two sleeps until our Zoom event with one of Australia’s touchstone literary and cultural icons. Join us this Tuesday night from 7pm ACST as Helen Garner joins us from Melbourne to chat with @_mollymollymurn_ about her newly published diary, ‘One Day I’ll Remember This’, life, writing and all points in-between.... It promises to be a memorable evening and we simply cannot wait. Many thanks to @text_publishing

06.01.2022 Somewhere in this crazy ol’ world it’s still Friday so Happy Friday & or / Saturday folks! Here’s your Top 9 bestsellers for the week just gone, now a memory. Once again we need to make mention that every book in this collection except Mister English biologist Merlin Sheldrake and his book on mycology, or the humble ‘shroom’ is an all Australian bunch. To make our smile that much wider a couple are even finer grain local.. like down the hill local or over the hills local.... Big hurrahs to all of them for their creations but also big hurrahs to you for supporting and loving what they do. Means so much. Hope to see you sometime today, here til 5pm to talk all things books. Just a reminder we are still not open Sunday for a little while longer. Happy reading folks. #topnine #shoplocal #matildabookshop #supportlocalauthorsandartists #adelaidehills #bookstagram

06.01.2022 The second, and now penultimate , of what we are reading during this truncated lockdown period. Tessa Hadley is someone I’ve never read before, but her finely honed insights into the swirling affections and resentments that make up a family were a lovely balm during these strange few days in South Australia. Think a slightly more bucolic and English Anne Tyler. I also loved this line from the novel ‘Sophy and Grantham devoured their books: reading was a freedom torn out ...of the day’s regulated fabric.’ (Thanks to @paperback_bookshop for the recommendation )

03.01.2022 Happy Friday folks! So word on the street is ‘October is the new December’ so this is not the year to be a dilly-dally shopper! It’s official Christmas is coming so in the coming weeks, get your list and check it twice because we have so many many books that have landed and lay resplendent on our heaving tables and shelves!... Speaking of landed, here’s your Top 9 bestsellers for this week. Come see! Hope to see you sometime today, here til 5. 30 and open Saturday 9-5. Happy reading folks. #topnine #shoplocal #matildabookshop #adelaidehills #bookstagram #christmasiscoming

01.01.2022 We are thrilled, honoured and beyond excited to be launching the second volume of Helen Garner’s diaries, One Day I’ll Remember This on Tuesday November 3. Helen will be chatting to Matilda Bookshop’s Molly Murn on Zoom at 7pm ACST and we’d love you to join us for what will be a memorable chat with one of our favourite writers of all time. Full details & tickets can be found bit.ly/2HldW7u... Many thanks to Text Publishing

01.01.2022 We’re happy to say we’ll be back on deck at 10am tomorrow, a little earlier than initially envisaged. See you at some stage soon for our patented blend of book advice, peaceful browsing atmosphere and cheery helpfulness in solving (most) of your reading dilemmas.

01.01.2022 CHARITY DAY THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12 Tomorrow is our monthly Charity Day where 15% of the value of each book sold is donated to a cause whose aims we all support. Tomorrow we are supporting the @stvincentdepaulsocietyhomeless Migrant and Refugee Centre. ... Based in Kilburn, they provide assistance to people seeking asylum who receive no support of any kind from the Federal Government. This assistance takes the form of food vouchers, furniture or help with paying essential bills such as utilities. If no support is provided, these people are at genuine risk of homelessness and destitution. Buy your summer or Christmas reads from us tomorrow to support this more than worthy cause.