Members of the Book Prize jury are objecting to the appointment of John Sutherland as chairman of the jury. “He is an appalling choice, because of what happened last time round. ‘Last time round’, when Professor Sutherland was a judge in 1999, he wrote a piece for the Guardian in which he described the judging process. His analysis was thunderously denied by two fellow judges, who accused him of a ‘breach of trust’.”