Fresh from a win at the Weald and Downland rare breed show, author Michaela Giles ‘beyond excited’ to have taken the annual Diagram prize as well
In good news for readers who struggle to find space in their busy schedules to look after their pigs, The Commuter Pig Keeper has won the Bookseller magazine’s Diagram prize for oddest book title of the year.
Subtitled A Comprehensive Guide to Keeping Pigs When Time Is Your Most Precious Commodity, the book took 40% of the public vote. It saw off a shortlist that also featured Love Your Lady Landscape, which encourages readers to go back to the “time when the space between a woman’s thighs was considered a power portal”, and Nipples on My Knee, which collects its co-authors’ experience of 25 years in the sheep business.
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