In John Crace’s digested week (30 January), he says of the Costa book of the year award that “everyone accepts the judging of this one is … a complete lottery”. I know of nine people who wouldn’t accept it: me and my fellow judges. Unless I was out of the room when the winner was chosen randomly from a set of numbered balls, my recollection of the judges’ meeting last Tuesday is that we spent a lot of time discussing the merits of each of the five books before coming to a collective decision.
Martyn Bedford
Ilkley, West Yorkshire
• I found your advice to letter writers chilling (Open door, 25 January; Letters, 28 January). In a Paper so entranced by the authentic & the artizznal surely the Letter Page should be a haven of Free Speech? A truely original voice relishes the quirks of meaning which can be wrung out of words mis-spelt, mis-punctuated, & in your terms mis-applied. Could you not allow our mangled missives a moment in the Sun without the cold hand of the Style Guide squeezing us into the box marked “Guardian Letters”?
Sheila Reece
Nottingham
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