Danger Sound Klaxon! wins oddest book title award

Matthew Jordan’s horn history beat Dry Humping: A Guide to Dating, Relating, and Hooking Up Without the Booze and ‘I Fart in your General Direction!’ Flatulence in Popular Culture

Danger Sound Klaxon! The Horn That Changed History by Matthew F Jordan has won the Diagram prize for oddest book title of the year.

Jordan’s book charts the history of the klaxon automobile horn. It won a public vote against five shortlisted titles including Dry Humping: A Guide to Dating, Relating and Hooking Up Without the Booze and Backvalley Ferrets: A Rewilding of the Colorado Plateau.