A Good Year For Bad Sex

Salman Rushdie, Paul Theroux, John Updike and Gabriel Garcia Marquez are among the 11 contenders for the Bad Sex Award. Modesty prohibits the inclusion of extracts in this blog, but you can point your vibrating mouse here.

Update: And the winner is...Giles Coren, for his debut novel, Winkler. "It was the overexcited shower...which clinched the deal for Giles Coren," judges said.