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THE CELLULOID CLOSET by Vito Russo. Russo was honoured last month by the Hetrick-Martin Institute (formerly the Institute for the Protection of Lesbian and Gay Youth) in New York for his work as a film historian and social activist. The Celluloid Closet was revised last year with over 100 new entries added. More than just a chronology of gay characters in film, this book remains the only one of its kind to date spanning 80 years of mainstream film-making. Harper and Row 1987 (Revised edition), pb. £9.40.

THE SWIMMING POOL LIBRARY by Alan Hollinghurst. A novel set in pre-AIDS London. At times grimly realistic, Gay's the Word Review described it as "a world in which a golden age gives way to corruption and men (there are no women in this novel) become more cynical with age. . . For all the differences between then and now, the characters behave in similar ways whatever time they live in. .. The differences are only a matter of style." Chatto and Windus, hb. £12.95.