A memorable novel, a superb biography of a people.

So did the superb literary biographies we read - and deeply admired.

The result is both a superb biography of Lowenstein and a gripping history of liberal protest and reform in an increasingly conservative age.

In this superb biography, Foster unscrambles destiny and complicates it into life.

The Whitbread judges called it "a superb biography by a writer at the height of her powers" and a "humane and compassionate portrait."

David Eisenhower, in his superb biography of his grandfather, noted that the truth "was known only by them, and both are gone."

The author "has produced a superb biography, full of surprises," David Wise wrote in the Book Review in 1994.

Matthew Hollis's superb biography focuses on what transformed a talented journalist into one of the most highly regarded nature poets of the 20th century.

Ian Kershaw, who has now completed the second and final volume of his superb biography, "Hitler.

This is a superb biography of a great writer - and is a beautifully produced book, it should be said, with copious illustrations.