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Jane
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Cholmeley
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Silver Moon Bookshop (retired)
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Jane Cholmeley has worked in the book trade for 40 years. Her first job was in publishing with Yale University Press then Macdonald Educational. She refused to work for Robert Maxwell, took redundancy and was co-founder of Silver Moon Women's Bookshop. Silver Moon was a feminist and lesbian bookshop on the Charing Cross Road which from small beginnings in 1984 became Europe's largest women's bookshop, closing in 2001. She has just become an author, writing a memoir of Silver Moon called A Bookshop of One's Own published February 2024 by Harper Collins.
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