Jane Cholmeley. 2025. A Bookshop of One’s Own: How a Group of Women Set Out to Change the World. London: Mudlark. 376 pp. GBP10.99. Paperback. ISBN: 978-0-008-65107-7.

Four pages into Jane Cholmeley's frank, funny account of setting up Silver Moon Women's Bookshop on London's Charing Cross Road, the author confesses to a certain unease regarding "the gap between academic analysis and the lived experience" (4).Citing scholar Simone Murray's assertion that Cholmeley "'adumbrates the tensions'" within Silver Moon, Cholmeley responds briskly: "I've never adumbrated in my life.