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As the shortlist of the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year was unveiled, its organiser said 2014 was one of the strongest vintages in the award’s 35-year history. Horace Bent, custodian of the prize, said: “It is a truly inspiring list celebrating the art of title-making that goes from the sublime to the fantastic.
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"It runs the gamut from a book with a Darwinian pun and a very liberal sprinkling of the S-bomb within its pages, to a title that hints at the heretofore unreported class struggle amongst the moggies of the Big Apple.” Working Class Cats: The Bodega Cats of New York City by Chris Balsiger and Erin Canning will vie with another animal-based work entitled Are Trout South African? by Duncan Brown.
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There are two toilet-themed books on the shortlist, Origin Of Feces [sic] by David Walter-Toews and How To Poo On A Date by Mats and Enzo. Jo Packham examines how pies can capture the story of a life in Pie-ography: Where Pie Meets Biography, exploring "the biography of a woman's life told through the ingredients that create a slice – a taste – of her life in a pie". The final work on the six-strong shortlist is Ian Punnett’s How To Pray When You’re Pissed At God. The winner will be chosen by a public vote and announced on 21 March.
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