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19th Nov 2015

The nominations for ‘Bad Sex in Fiction’ are hilarious

Mills and Boon eat your heart out.

JOE

Mills and Boon eat your heart out.

The Literary Review have announced the shortlist for this year’s Bad Sex in Fiction prize – and there are some absolute corkers.

In the words of the Review, the aim of the award is to honour “an author who has produced an outstandingly bad scene of sexual description in an otherwise good novel.”

The full list of nominees is below – including Morrissey – along with a short extract courtesy of the Independent:

List of the Lost – Morrissey

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Against Nature – Tomas Espedal

Fiction2

 

The Martini Shot – George Pelecanos

Fiction3

The Making of Zombie Wars – Aleksandar Hemon

Fiction4

Book of Numbers – Joshua Cohen

Fiction5

Fear of Dying – Erica Jong

Fiction6

Fates and Furies – Lauren Groff

 

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Having read all these, my mind instantly turns to just one thing.

Clip via – AhmadStpats

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