Books on Beechwood is an independently owned and operated business that has been serving the New Edinburgh neighbourhood in Ottawa for over a decade. We pride ourselves on our literary-fiction, biography & history sections, and we offer a huge selection of books for children and young adults.

At Books on Beechwood, we know our books!

Are you looking for a solid recommendation? Do you need a gift for that hard-to-buy-for friend? Perhaps you’re seeking something to captivate the imagination of your child. Just ask us! We’ll be happy to make suggestions, and we will cheerfully special order anything we don’t have in stock.

We also sell greeting cards, Putumayo World Music CD’s, Audio Books on Tape and CD, remainder titles and a whole lot more!

Drop in today. Our staff will be happy to assist you.

Staff Biographies

Jean Barton has been the owner of Books on Beechwood for twelve years since it opened at 86 Beechwood Avenue. She had wanted to create a good neighbourhood bookstore and is delighted that the “good” neighbourhood has supported her efforts all these years.

Di has been involved with bookselling for almost 20 years. Her specialty is children’s books, an interest she pursued working 5 years at a children’s bookstore. Her other reading interests include British fiction, biography, and detective fiction.

Antoinette, a retired senior Public Servant, enjoys historical fiction, bios and travel books. She has traveled extensively and now enjoys walking her dog, volunteering at local theatres and soup kitchen and the care and feeding of one teen-ager.

Jill has just retired from twenty-five years of teaching at a private girls’ school in Montreal. She has recently moved to Ottawa from Dalkeith, Ontario. Her favourite pastimes include reading, riding, and walking her Bernese Mountain dogs, Heidi and Tara. Jill is interested in young adult literature, Arthurian tales, Ottawa authors and mysteries.

David shows up early in the morning, which is totally unnatural for him, to coerce and cajole our computers into behaving for the rest of the day. When he’s not at the bookstore he enjoys reading science fiction, and spending time out paddling in a canoe. Some of his favorite authors include Terry Pratchett, Sarah Zettel, Allen Steele, Esther Friesner and Vernor Vinge.