15 APRIL 1966, page 21

Concrete Future

Your England Revisited. By Ian Nairn. (Hutchin- son, 30s.) OUR England, his London, in which angry young Nairn has now had ten years viewing buildings and drinking beer.......

Some Lives

SUCCESS is often the theme, most often the reason of biographies. In autobiography it is pleasantest to see a man succeed at being himself. John Verney in A Dinner of Herbs......