MEET THE BOOKSELLER: Kate Treloar and Nick Patrick, Orchard Bookshop
Every thriving reading community needs good bookshops, and good booksellers. In our Meet the Bookseller series, we introduce you to some of Australia’s most loved booksellers.
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This week, meet Kate Treloar and Nick Patrick, co-owners of Orchard Bookshop in the Adelaide Central Markets. Formerly known as Adelaide's Pop-up Bookshop, Kate and Nick are old hands at the bookselling trade, with 13 years under their belts.
How long have you been a bookseller? 
Technically Kate started bookselling aged four while 'helping' father Michael Treloar in his first bookshop!
As a partnership, Kate and Nick launched Stirling booknook Chapter Two Books 13 years ago. Adelaide’s Pop-up Bookshop was established in 2012 and appeared in locales including Rundle Mall, Adelaide Arcade, and CBD footpaths (exhausting) before settling in our current home in the Central Market & morphing into Orchard Bookshop.
What do you love about being a bookseller?
Having an independent bookshop is such a pure profession – what you offer has to connect with people or it simply can't continue.
What was the last book you read and loved?
Kate – Vaxxers: The Inside Story of the Oxford AstraZeneca Vaccine and the Race Against the Virus by Sarah Gilbert, Catherine Green. Fascinating, down-to-earth and timely.
Nick – Reluctant Capitalists by Laura J. Miller. It's about bookselling!
What’s special or distinctive about your shop?
All killer, no filler! Rather than be pigeon-holed with one of the usual bookshop labels (second-hand/ new/ antiquarian) we curate a deliberately small blend of books we love – it's a little anarchic and doesn't suit a lot of people, but that just makes it all the sweeter when it does click.