10 OCTOBER 1987, page 40

Looking Back To The Future

Brian Martin THE CHILD IN TIME by Ian McEwan Cape, £10.95 T he central character in The Child in Time, Stephen Lewis, sits on a government committee which is to report on the......

Drowning In Shallow Water

Francis King BLACKEYES by Dennis Potter Faber, £8.95 R ecently a Japanese, last seen in Kyoto, rushed up to me at the National Theatre, crying out, not in annoyance but in......

Time To Let Their Hair Down

Ludovic Kennedy JUDGES by David Pannick OUP, £12.95 i s Majesty's judges', said Lord Hewart, then Lord Chief Justice, at the Lord Mayor's Banquet in 1936, 'are satis- fied with......