Adam Mars-Jones, winner of the first Hatchet Job award for a book review in the Observer, reflects on his craft I'm delighted that the Hatchet Job of the Year Award exists, as well as glad to have won it in a state of innocence, with a piece written before it came into being . From now on, any energetically negative review is likely to be seen as playing to the jury of the award, just as people …
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Adam Mars-Jones: 'The only bad review is one whose writing is soggy'