29 AUGUST 1987, page 26

A Canadian In Paris

Anita Brookner OVERHEAD IN A BALLOON: STORIES OF PARIS by Mavis Gallant Cape, £10.95 M avis Gallant, the Canadian writer, has long been appropriated by the New Yorker, for whom......

An Innocent Abroad

Francis King THE STRANGERS' GALLERY by Jonathan Keates Hamish Hamilton, £10.95 A potent theme for both novels and plays has always been that of a closed society disrupted and......