A tough job but worth itA friend who was a travel rep used to complain that it was hell working in the leisure industry because you had to work when everyone else was on holiday. After a summer grappling with 170 books - the biggest ever submission for the Guardian first book prize - I know what she meant. Whittling Whittling is the art of carving shapes out of raw wood with a knife. Whittling is typically performed with a light, small-bladed knife, usually a pocket knife. Specialised whittling knives are available as well. all the entries down to a field of 10 - spanning fiction, non-fiction and poetry - was a tough job, made easier only by the fact that several contenders disqualified dis·qual·i·fy tr.v. dis·qual·i·fied, dis·qual·i·fy·ing, dis·qual·i·fies 1. a. To render unqualified or unfit. b. To declare unqualified or ineligible. 2. themselves at the 11th hour. Virago, publisher of Lauren Liebenberg's The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut peanut, name for a low, annual leguminous plant (Arachis hypogaea) of the family Leguminosae (pulse family) and for its edible seeds. Native to South America and cultivated there for millenia, it is said to have been introduced to Africa by early explorers, Butter and Jam, forgot to mention Liebenberg once wrote a history of e-banking. Bloomsbury's surprise hit, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, was ruled out for the melancholy Melancholy See also Grief. Acheron river of woe in the underworld. [Gk. Myth.: Howe, 5] Anatomy of Melancholy lists causes, symptoms, and characteristics of melancholy. [Br. Lit. reason that its author, Mary Ann Shaffer, died before it was complete, and it was finished by her niece NIECE, domestic relations: The daughter of a person's brother or sister. Amb. 514; 1 Jacob's Ch. R. 207. Annie Barrows, a published children's author. We ended up with four novels, one book of short stories, a poetry collection and three or four non-fiction titles, depending on whether you classify Me Cheeta: The Autobiography (by the chimp in the Tarzan movies) as fact or fiction. The geographical spread is as widespread as ever, with authors from Australia, Nigeria, Pakistan and the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. as well as possibly the strongest ever UK contingent. Read the full piece at blogs.guardian.co.uk/books 
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