Welcome to Australia’s First Booktown.
COME FOR THE BOOKS – WE’RE BOOKTOWN!
The Southern Highlands has long housed more than its fair share of creative and well-read people but the crowning glory has to be its status as Australia’s First Booktown.
Since 2000 the Southern Highlands of NSW has augmented its cache of local authors, publishers and book-lovers with a suite of bookshops and literary festivals to lay claim to that prestigious title, and a legitimate right to international fame. Booktown Southern Highlands is inspired by the UK town of Hay-on-Wye. Other towns worldwide have followed Hay’s lead.
Explore our picturesque towns and villages and discover many fine bookshops and literary links that together make us Australia’s First Booktown.
Join us here in the beautiful Southern Highlands to celebrate the art of the book!
OPEN SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS ONLY
JANUARY 2025
Saturday 11: 10am – 3pm
Sunday 12: 10am – 3pm
Saturday 18: 10am – 3pm
Sunday 19: 10am – 3pm
Saturday 25: 10am – 3pm
Sunday 26: 10am – 3pm
FEBRUARY 2025 — CLOSED
MARCH 2025 — RE-OPEN for the year from Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 from 10am – 3pm.
Sutton Forest COFFEE AND CARS is held on the third Sunday of the month from 10am – 12noon, adjacent to the Sutton Forest Coffee Kiosk.
Shortbread is freshly baked for every weekend and is available while stocks last.