The Bookseller announces the Diagram Prize 2020 shortlist | The Bookseller

Bent called this year's crop "stone cold Diagram classics" and noted three entries come from "that particularly fecund pool of odd-titlehood: acadmic publshing": A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path (McGill-Queen's University Press) by Gregory Forth, Introducing the Medieval Ass (University of Wales Press) by Kathryn L Smithies and Classical Antiquity in Heavy Metal Music (Bloomsbury Academic) by K F B Fletcher and Osman Umurhan.

Rounding out the shortlist are How to Make Love to a Despot (W W Norton) by Stephen D Krasner, Lawnmowers: An Illus¬trated History (Amberley) by Brian Radam and The Slaughter of Farmed Animals: Practical Ways to Enhance Animal Welfare (CABI) by Temple Grandin and Michael Cockram.