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Stephen Pollard

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Stephen Pollard,

Stephen Pollard

Opinion

Dullsville

September 5, 2008 00:00
1 min read

The Today programme has just had details of the winner of an award for the most boring book title:

Greek Rural Postmen and their Cancellation Numbers

I once owned a book with a title that makes the above looks like a thriller. About ten years ago I won a similar competition (in the Speccie, as it happens) when I sent in a copy of the following book - which is, I must add, entirely genuine:

Hospital Purchase Records Containing Grain Price Information in Fifteenth Century Ghent

Beat that.

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