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Lonely Planet review

London's excellent and much-loved gay and lesbian bookshop is on a quiet Bloomsbury street where it gets relatively little walk-by custom. So much so that in 2007 it announced it was to close imminently unless it could raise emergency funds to pay for rising rents and to offset losses created by the internet. At the time of writing its 'sponsor a shelf' campaign had been successful and imminent closure ruled out, but this could change. There's a great range of gay and lesbian books and magazines as well as a real community spirit here - let's hope it survives.