He referred to it a "magnificent book" and "a stupendous work" which cast "new and revealing light on nearly every episode in Mao's tumultuous life."

Then there is Mary Kingsley's magnificent book on West Africa.

Can't believe that none of these magnificent books were chosen.

This is a magnificent book, and I look forward to running an event in Oxford to promote it in teh nearest possible future.

They were magnificent books.

"It's a magnificent book," Russell Doubleday wrote Helen, "and fortunately the critics have appreciated it."

I'llsay it simply and clearly: this is a magnificent book.

Miranda Seymour called it a 'magnificent' book, 'instructive and engrossingly readable.

His magnificent new book is at once a history of 19th-century France and a brilliant exercise in character animation.

Primo Levi explained it very well in a magnificent book: 'To understand is impossible, but to know is necessary and to remember is a duty'.