![]() "I do feel there was a lot more information that could be covered, possibly requiring another volume," wrote a reader on .uk.īut it is the public who will decide the eventual winner of the award, a public which has shown a marked fondness in the past for the lewder titles in the running (High Performance Stiffened Structures, The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories and Living with Crazy Buttocks are all former winners). Gosson's exhaustively researched maritime history is already the favourite of judges at the prize's administrator, the Bookseller magazine, and some are already calling out for more on the subject. But now it goes head to head with the intriguingly subtitled Mr Andoh's Pennine Diary: Memoirs of a Japanese Chicken Sexer in 1935 Hebden Bridge, on the shortlist of the Diagram prize for the oddest book title of the year. Some might have worried the publishers of Peter Gosson's A Century of Sand Dredging in the Bristol Channel were scraping the bottom of the barrel with the issue of a second volume.
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