A Bookshop of One’s Own – Jane Cholmeley

Silver Moon was a bookshop with the mission to promote the work of female writers and create a much-needed safe space for any woman. Founded in 1980s London against a backdrop of homophobia and misogyny, it was a testament to the power of community, growing into Europe’s biggest women’s bookshop and hosting a constellation of literary stars from Margaret Atwood to Maya Angelou. Join founder Jane Cholmeley, a feminist and lesbian icon, for a fascinating slice of social history and a celebration of the power women have to change the narrative when they are the ones holding the pen.

 ‘Silver Moon was the place where literature fed my life’ Sandi Toksvig 

Tara Tobler is a Senior Fiction Editor at And Other Stories and a writer.