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"But the isolation he achieved this week is not 'splendid'splendid

Lionel Shriver Novelist Martin Amis's House of Meetings (Jonathan Cape £15.99) is not only splendid but is dumbfoundingly, almost incomprehensibly, superior to his last one, Yellow Dog, which I couldn't bear.

The collection of domestic architectural pattern and plan books, pamphlets, and shelter magazines is not only splendid to peruse; it also tells the story of the American housing boom that set the stage for the real-estate crisis from which the United States is still recovering.

However, Africa is not in splendid isolation.

It is not unlike the splendid isolation at a ship's bow as it splits the sea.

It was now permissible to use English, and our host explained that the wharenui is not just a splendid example of traditional meeting-house architecture, but a three-dimensional "reference library".

(God is perhaps better or more splendid for exercising creative power, but he is not better or more splendid for having created me).

The point here is not so much the splendid writing – and it is almost incredibly splendid – but can we relate to and do we sympathise with the Consul's early morning alcoholic vision?

Hers is not a story of splendid, pioneering isolation or blistering family trauma.

The ordinary semolina loaf of bread (cut your own, placed on a board) is not indicative of the splendid food to come.

To the uninitiated, this splendid occasion is not obviously religious.