19 MARCH 1994, page 35

Playing The Sedulous Apes

Mira Stout MONKEY'S UNCLE by Jenny Diski Weidenfeld, £14.99, pp. 258 M onkey's Uncle is not so much a novel as an aggrandised account of a nervous breakdown, but the author's......

Facing The Facts Of Life

Albert Read THEY WHISPER by Robert Olen Butler Secker, f14.99, pp. 329 W hen a novel promises it will `unflinchingly and lyrically address the sub- ject of modern......