3 MAY 1986, page 30

A Life Of Established Detachment

Brian Goodwin MEMOIRS OF A THINKING RADISH by Peter Medawar OUP, £12.50 S . ir Peter Medawar appears to be pre- eminently the stuff of which the English Establishment is made.......

Questions Of Identity

Patrick Swinden LIVE FLESH by Ruth Rendell Hutchinson, £9.95 A DARK-ADAPTED EYE by Barbara Vine Viking, £9.95 R uth Rendell must be one of the most prolific, as well as the......

Presence

Who has presence if compared With a beech tree he has spared? Some have absence which can be Like the cut trunk of a tree. Alan Dixon......