Pickles (1986) Queens. Quartet Books.

How and where did you access it?

About 1986-7, from a now defunct bookshop in central London.

How did it make you feel?

Marvellous. It beautifully described life in gay London in the 1980s. And, re-reading it recently, it is still as touching and as clever and as panoramic as it ever was.

Did you share it?

Oh yes. I regularly give people copies.

David Thame