5 NOVEMBER 1977, page 24

Funster

David Holden The Natives Were Friendly So We Stayed the Night Noel Barber (Macmillan £4.95) At the popular end of the foreign correspondent's trade twenty years ago Noel Barber......

Rhetorical

Peter Ackroyd The Confessions of Joseph Balsz Dan Jacobson (Secker and Warburg E3.90) English readers and critics always prefer to have invention and imagination at second hand,......