Phone Number
Phone Number
Checkout ()
Browse Store
Bookstore Cinema eBar
  • Home
  • Reviews
    • Page Turners & Pot Boilers
    • Literary
    • Non-Fiction
  • Browse Sections
    • Adult Non-Fiction
    • Adult Fiction
  • Browse Kids & YA
    • All Kids
    • Young Adult
    • Ages 0-6
    • Ages 7-10
    • Ages 10-14
  • Wine
  • Hours & Contact Info
  • Consignment Policy
  • Cinema Tickets
Bookshelf twitter
Follow @bookshelfnews
RT @mmmbarclay: Guelph! You and I have some history. Let's make some more. This launch is tonight @Bookshelfnews 630 doors, 7pm eve… t.co/4LLSs2Qo6U

@emmafromtoronto

t.co/0tLWhRHkIA

RT @cfru_radio: Jenny may be on leave from CFRU but they're always active! Check out their chat with author/musician Michael Barcla… t.co/X6TepPmgxM

Bookshelf Tour

The Bookstore

Article By Barb Minett

Date: 26 Jan 2016

Share On

Related...

From the very beginning, way back in 1973, before social media and the use of postal codes, The Bookshelf became a community hub. Lady Margaret Atwood was just starting her oracular rise and many students were pouring over the Whole Earth Catalogue. Customers quickly became participants in wide ranging conversations and many hung around for hours just for the fun of it! Over the decades The Bookshelf became a favourite spot for literary readings which included many luminaries such as John Irving, A.S. Byatt, Michael Ondaatje, Karen Armstrong, Al Purdy, Ann-Marie Macdonald, Joseph Boyden, Margaret Atwood and many others. It has developed strong community partnerships with groups such as Café Philosphique from the University of Guelph, The Eden Mills Writers’ Festival, The Commonwealth Writers’ Festival, The Go Go Grandmothers and The Guelph Film Festival, just to name a few.

The original bookstore was hatched by Barb and Doug Minett. Ben and Hannah Minett are now owners and are supported tremendously by their long time staff of book and film lovers. There is over 200 years of cumulative bookselling experience, and if there ever were a spare moment, producing a TV show about a day in the life of The Bookshelf would be pretty entertaining.

Go To Bookshelf Tour
  • The Bookshelf

    • 41 Quebec Street
      Guelph Ontario
      519.821.3311
  • Bookstore

    • Books, Magazines, Games & Gifts
    • Read Reviews & Interviews
    • Follow Columns & Articles
  • Cinema

    • Now Playing
    • Film Reviews
    • Cult Cinema
  • eBar

    • Dinner & A Movie
    • Live Music
    • DJ's & Dancing
    • Comedy & Burlesque
    • Special Events

A bookstore that shows movies • a cinema that serves dinner • a resto-bar that launches books