5 JULY 1997, page 36

Some First Novels

Tom Hiney O ne book certainly stands out among this summer's debut novels. The God of Small Things is a magically written effort by Arundhati Roy and deserves all the hype that......

It Is A Joke, Isn't It?

Cressida Connolly THE COUNTRY LIFE by Rachel Cusk Picador, £15.99, pp. 342 W hat is Rachel Cusk up to? The Country Life — her third novel — is either a disastrous mismarriage of......

Correction

A line was omitted in error from David Pryce-Jones's review of A Brutal Friend- ship by Said K. Aburish last week. The passage in question should have read: `The Al-Sauds and......