19 SEPTEMBER 1987, page 46

The River Of No Return

David Profumo THE DAY OF CREATION by J.G. Ballard Gollancz, £10.95 T he two most likely questions about the latest Ballard novel will be: is it similar to his supremely......

The New Curiosity Shop

Harriet Waugh THE HEARTS AND LIVES OF MEN by Fay Weldon Heinemann, £10.95 THE RULES OF LIFE by Fay Weldon Hutchinson, £7.95 L ike most of Dickens's novels The Hearts and Lives......