As household names exercise clout to remove age ranging from their books, those forced to carry the badge may come to be seen as lesser writers

Authors who get too poetic when naming their books are punished at the tills

Literary opinions on the web do not have the same status as those in the established press, but they have a much wider scope.

That's quite enough about Stef Penney's never having been to Canada. She won because all the judges, including myself, loved her book.

Is Set in Stone too grown up to win the children's Costa award? Of course it isn't.