5 SEPTEMBER 1998, page 30

One Into Three Will Go

Rory Dunlop THE TESSERACT by Alex Garland Viking, £15.99, £19.99, pp. 288 A lex Garland's first novel, The Beach, was an enormous success; it won a prize for travel fiction, it......

Poor Little Mad Girl

Miranda France MAN CRAZY by Joyce Carol Oates Virago, £15.99, pp. 282 J oyce Carol Oates has written so many novels — more than 30 at the last count that she has been known to......

The Spectator Bookshop

BookoitheWeek Two Fat Ladies Full Throttle by Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright Touring Britain on Jennifer's motorbike, with Clarissa in the sidecar, the intrepid......