Prize shortlists: Hatchet Job of the Year Award

       They've announced the finalists for the first Hatchet Job of the Year Award. Organised by aggregator The Omnivore, it is a prize for: "the angriest, funniest, most trenchant book review of the past twelve months" -- and, like any good award, it comes with its own Manifesto, promising: "a crusade against dullness, deference and lazy thinking". (I'm not so sure about the prize, however: "a year's supply of potted shrimp" ?)
       For articles about it, see, for example, Book review hatchet jobs: a crusade against dullness ? by Anthony Cummins in The Telegraph, and Book critics to get their own prize for reviews by Mark Brown in The Guardian.