Treadwell's Bookshop is a shop in

Store Street, London Store Street is a street in Bloomsbury, London. Location Store Street runs between Gower Street and Tottenham Court Road. It is joined by Ridgmount Street on its north side. Store Street runs parallel with Chenies Street and Alfred Place jo ...

, in the

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area, which sells

esoteric Western esotericism, also known as the Western mystery tradition, is a wide range of loosely related ideas and movements that developed within Western society. These ideas and currents are united since they are largely distinct both from orthod ...

books as well as occult supplies. It originally opened in

Covent Garden Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. It is associated with the former fruit-and-vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist sit ...

in 2003 and is one of the small number of esoteric bookshops in London along with the

Atlantis Bookshop The Atlantis Bookshop is an esoteric bookshop in Museum Street, London. Established by Michael Houghton in 1922, it is currently owned and run by Bali Beskin and her mother Geraldine. Atlantis has long been a hub for London's occult world.Carr-G ...

and

Watkins Books Watkins Books is London's oldest esoteric bookshop. It specialises in Western esotericism, esotericism, mysticism, occultism, oriental religion and contemporary spirituality. The bookshop was saved by entrepreneur Etan Ilfeld who bought it out ...

. Treadwell's audience includes the trending number of younger urban women interested in witchcraft. The shop has been described as a "specialist bookshop for the practicing occultist and wizard", and an "esoteric community hub" in London.

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The Guardian. (15th March 2011). `The magic of Treadwell's bookshop' by Adam Boult
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