Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year Especially considering the prize champions 'odd titles' and "not" 'odd books' (see the Man Booker for the latter)". The winner was originally voted for by a panel of judges, but since 2000 the winner has been voted for by members of the public via the Internet. Bent resisted this move and threatened to resign, but he later reconsidered and now creates the short list of finalists. Also, the title of the book must be in English, although the language in the book can be any language. In September 2008, a book about the Diagram Prize was published by Aurum Press
S. H. Benson S H Benson Ltd registered as a limited liability company in 1906, the first advertising company to do so. In 1909 Bensons moved to Kingsway Hall, the first office building in the newly built Kingsway. 1914 onwards In 1914 the company was taken over by the founder's son, Philip who had visited America to study new methods of psychological marketing and scientific advertising. However, Philip did not take to the scientific approach and he maintained something of a bohemian atmosphere producing copy that was humorous, clever and elegant. One of S. H. Benson's copy writers in the 1920s was Dorothy