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Beneath the surface frivolity however, the award makes a semi-serious point, Mr Rickett said.
“It fills a vital gap in the literary calendar by rewarding the kind of books that never win the larger prizes. We look to the tiniest corners of publishing, where books are produced for a niche audience of tens or hundreds of people. We are the polar opposite of the bestseller driven, Richard and Judy Book Club culture that we live in today.”
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1978 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice (University of Tokyo Press)
1979 The Madam as Entrepreneur: Career Management in House Prostitution (Transaction Press)
1980 The Joy of Chickens (Prentice Hall)
1981 Last chance at Love-Terminal Romances (Pinnacle Press)
1982 Population and Other Problems (China National Publications)
1983 The Theory of Lengthwise Rolling (MIR)
1984 The Book of Marmalade: Its Antecedents, Its History and Its Role in the World Today (Constable)
1985 Natural Bust Enlargement with Total Power: How to Increase the other 90% of Your Mind to Increase the Size of Your Breasts (Westwood Publishing Co)
1986 Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality (Brunner/Mazel)

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