Also nominated was Geoff Dyer's take on Julian Barnes' Booker-winning novel, The Sense of An Ending, of which he said: "It isn't terrible, it is just so... average, " and David Sexton's review of Carol Ann Duffy's The Bees - calling it "very GCSE".

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"It's terrible to think that we are postponing protecting such a magnificent animal so that hunters can continue to have their payday, " he said.

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The only thing worse than the Terrible 10, 000 Feet is the underlying sense that it's all so unnecessary.

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"It's almost certainly been the terrible easterly winds we've been having for the last 10 days or so, " said Mr Clarkson.

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