Madam, - This year's Jacobs Crackers Prize for Begrudgery must go to Eileen Battersby, whose mealy-mouthed report on Anne Enright's Booker-winning The Gatheringsurely takes the biscuit ( The Irish Times, October 17th).
Why didn't Ms Battersby simply say: "The wrong book won it"? Those of us in the Greater Reading Public who celebrate the wit and wisdom of Anne Enright will rise and chorus "Oh yes it did"! - Yours, etc,
ANDY BARCLAY, Howth, Dublin 13.