18 JANUARY 1997, page 36

This Small Masterpiece

Teresa Waugh ORIGINAL BLISS by A. L. Kennedy Cape, £14.99, pp. 311 P erhaps it has something to do with the time of year, with the crippling cold and all those horrible germs......

The Unbearable Heaviness Of Being Sober

Anne McElvoy MOSCOW STATIONS by Venedikt Yerofeyev Faber, £14.99, pp. 144 A few years ago, when Viktor Yero- feyev produced his novel about Brezhnev's Soviet Union, The Russian......

Correction

The final sentence of Richard West's review of two books on European history (4 January) referred to "digital TV ", which offers a main wide-screen film plus a "side-bar" of......