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‘Bad sex in fiction award includes Booker winner among shortlist targets’

November 13, 2014 By Kathy Shaidle

Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark makes the shortlist for this year’s award with her debut novel, The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle. Judges said they also considered Andrew Marr’s Head of State. It started arrestingly, they said, with the lines “they bucked like deer and squirmed like eels. And after that, vice-versa”, but the novel “failed to sustain its early promise”…

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