Gay's The Word
Series 3: Episode 3 - Jim MacSweeney gives this week's book recommendation
Gay's The Word is the UK's pioneering first - and today the last surviving - lesbian and gay bookshop. Established in 1979 and located in Bloomsbury, London, we stock an enormous range of books from the profound to the frivolous; from the liberating to the indulgent. Our fiction ranges from prize-winning literary works through to detective, romance and erotic fiction. Our non-fiction covers a wide range of issues from cutting-edge queer theory through to how to tell your mother you are gay. Our range of queer philosophical, political, historical and other scholarly works is unequalled in the UK.
Gay's The Word's Jim MacSweeney recommends Tove Jansson's Fair Play:
A portrayal of love between two older women, a writer and artist, as they work side-by-side in their Helsinki studios, travel together and share summers on a remote island. In the generosity and respect they show each other and the many small shifts they make to accommodate each other's creativity we are shown a relationship both heartening and truly progressive.
