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J.R. Ackerley

J. R. Ackerley (1896-1967) was for many years the literary editor of the BBC magazine The Listener. His works include three memoirs, Hindoo Holiday, My Dog Tulip, and My Father and Myself, and a novel, We Think the World of You (all available as New York Review Books).

Hindoo Holiday Hindoo Holiday is an intimate and very funny account of an exceedingly strange place, and one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century travel literature. Price: $11.20 (20% off)

We Think the World of You This powerful short novel, with its extraordinary mixture of acute social realism and dark fantasy, was described by J. R. Ackerley himself as "a fairy tale for adults." Price: $10.36 (20% off)

My Father and Myself Ackerley's pursuit of his father is also an exploration of the self, making My Father and Myself a pioneering record, at once sexually explicit and emotionally charged, of life as a gay man. Price: $11.96 (20% off)

My Dog Tulip Ackerley has written a book that is a profound and subtle meditation on the strangeness abiding at the heart of all relationships. Price: $11.16 (20% off)