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 subject areas are health, psychology, personal growth, yoga, spiritual
traditions, magic, mythology and mysteries. We have about
20,000 titles on the shelves, new, bargain and secondhand and a further
30,000 new titles available to special order only.
You can visit us all year round,
Monday to Saturday 10:00 am till 5:45 pm (not bank holidays).We
have a lively worldwide mail order service which you can access by phone or
through this website.
Let us know if you would like paper
catalogues, especially if you would prefer to order via post or phone - they
contain a selection of the new and bargain books listed on our website.
If
you cannot find the title you are looking for on our website or in paper
lists, it’s worth giving us a ring. We are likely to be able to order it
in for you; we have many years of experience in tracking down hard to get
hold of books in our subject areas. If it is out of print we can flag it
so we can let you know if we get one in secondhand.
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 we
soon outgrew. In 1992 we moved into our current, much larger, premises in
Magdalen Road, Oxford. We have had this website since 1998, as an
extension to our mail-order service. We have been upgrading it regularly
and in 2002 added some of our major suppliers, available as Special
Orders. This brought the total number of Mind, Body, Spirit titles
searchable here to over 50,000. In early 2004 we upgraded our online
database to SQL Server and as a result it is now 7 times faster to search
through our books online. In early 2005 we upgraded our local inventory
system allowing us to update the website more regularly, now bi-weekly
rather than monthly. Also in the latter part of the year we added features
like hyperlinked categories to aid in browsing the books, for those
customers who weren't sure of title or authors.
