Inner Bookshop Information

The Inner Bookshop is one of the UK’s largest independent specialist suppliers of new, bargain and secondhand books on Mind – Body – Spirit and the Unexplained. The main subjects are: Ancient Traditions, Audio, Buddhism, Christianity, Creativity, Food, Health, Judaism, Men & Women, Modern Ways, Mysteries, Myth & Mysticism, Nature, Occult, Personal Growth, Psychology, Shamanism, Sufism and Yoga. Open all year round, Tuesday to Saturday 10:00 am till 5:45 pm (not bank holidays). They have a lively worldwide mail order service which you can access by phone or through their website. The owner-managers Ruth Ashcroft and Anthony Cheke founded the Inner Bookshop in 1982. At first we occupied a tiny site in the Cowley Road, inside (hence the bookshop's name!) the local radical bookshop EOA Books, run by Jon Carpenter. EOA Books closed in 1989 when Jon Carpenter went into publishing, and the Inner Bookshop took over the whole site, which they soon outgrew. In 1992 they moved into their current, much larger, premises in Magdalen Road, Oxford. They have had this website since 1998, as an extension to their mail-order service.