2 DECEMBER 1989, page 35

J. G. Links

FOR ME it has been a J. R. Ackerley year. Having found that an old favourite, Hin- doo Holiday, stood up well after 37 years, I followed it with his other three books (My Dog......

Christmas Books Ii

Books of the Year A further selection of the best and most overrated books of the year, chosen by some of the Spectator's regular reviewers Stephen Spender THE Body and Society......

Denis Hills

NEITHER Krystyna Kawecka's Journey Without a Ticket (Fineprint, Nottingham, £6.90) nor Janek Leja's Janek (co-author A. Dowling, Ringpress, £14.95) would claim great literary......