First place goes to Jennifer Leslie, a biologist at MIT, for her superb description of a session about using neuroscience in the courtroom.
Lyn MacDonald's books on the first world war set the standard for a generation, and Catherine Merridale's superb description of life in the Red Army, Ivan's War, is unlikely to be equalled.
In 1861, Tolstoy himself went to hear Dickens read A Christmas Carol in London – and maybe the superb description of Scrooge's horrified vision of everyone's utter indifference to his death, at a Christmas yet to come, planted a seed for the opening chapters of The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
In "Guinea," the story of an Italian-American soldier and his comrade, an Irishman from Boston, lost with a dying Japanese prisoner in tow, Murray provides this superb description of the foliage: "It was late October -- fall -- but in New Guinea things were green.
The last section of "Solo" brims with superb descriptions of folk music and the drunken talk of men and women who are brought together, then driven apart, by the fall of Communism.
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Followed by a superb meal, of course.
A superb Best of British showcase.
A superb recreation of original, youthful genius.
I knew it was a superb bit of work".
