19 SEPTEMBER 1987, page 45

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......

The Pleasures Of The Suburbs

Anita Brookner TRUST ME by John Updike Andre Deutsch, f9.95 T here is a deceptive and impressive leisureliness to the higher reaches of American journalism, as if all the time......