MRBF 2026 Pre-Release
An Adelaide Preview of items to be exhibited at the 2026 Melbourne Rare Book Fair [MRBF] Each year, Orchard Bookshop joins around 30 of the finest booksellers from across Australia…
The Plathery – A catalogue of items from the Sylvia Plath collection of Melanie Smith
A warm thank you to those who attended our two-day exhibition of Sylvia Plath items [The Plathery, April 10-11]. It was certainly our privilege to handle this world-class collection and…
The Plathery: An exhibition of books by Sylvia Plath
Over 30 significant works by Sylvia Plath from a private Adelaide collection. Featuring: FIRST EDITIONS of all her poetry collections + “The Bell Jar”; SMALL PRESS limited edition printings; PROOF…
Gift Cards for Orchard Bookshop
We've always had gift cards - you know, those lovely quaint pieces of card with our logo & a dollar amount on them that can be exchanged in-store for books.…
Festive Season Hours!
Well, it's that time of year & we're now OPEN EVERY DAY UNTIL CHRISTMAS! We will then be taking a short break - those of you visiting Adelaide over the…
Orchard Bookshop’s Sunday Drop
We've introduced a weekly product launch we're calling the Sunday Drop. Every Sunday @7:30pm [Adelaide time], the books that we've been cataloguing during the week go live on our online…
Orchard @ Melbourne Rare Book Fair 2025
It's that time of year again, when Melbourne takes centre stage in celebrating the world's finest books; hosting a series of events during Rare Book Week [24 July - 2…
Celebrating Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Christie, the Queen of Crime, was born on 15 September, 1890. She would write 66 novels and publish 14 short story collections, many featuring the iconic sleuths Hercule…
Orchard Bookshop @ Melbourne Rare Book Fair 2024
We are proud to announce that we will be exhibiting at the prestigious Rare Book Fair being held in Melbourne at the end of this month [click here for more…
Sir Terry Pratchett hits the Orchard Bookshelves!
We have recently acquired a collection of the entire Discworld series [all 41 books!] which will accompany a couple of special Terry Pratchett items, some new reprints and a swag…