“Maybe the most interesting thing for this year is that Dixieland has suddenly and head-scratchingly become the Diagram stronghold. Other titles making up the shortlist this year were The Queerness of Water: Troubled Ecologies in the Eighteenth Century and The 12 Days of Christmas: The Outlaw Carol that Wouldn’t Die.ĭanger Sound Klaxon! is published by University of Virginia Press, making this the third year in a row that an academic publisher from the US south has won the prize. “To be frank, it was a result that took me by surprise as I thought the early bookies’ favourite, “I Fart in your General Direction!” Flatulence in Popular Culture, would blow up this awards season, but it never really got a sniff at the prize,” said Tom Tivnan, managing editor at The Bookseller, which administers the prize.
Danger Sound Klaxon! The Horn that changed History by Matthew F Jordan.
