With this year's shortlist for the Bad Sex Awards announced last month,
former winner Rowan Somerville challenges the purpose and legitimacy of the
accolade
Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.
When I realised that sex was going to be the central part of my novel The
Shape of Her, I was a little worried. I sensed that to examine this subject
with any authenticity required a suspension of defences, and that to do so in
this country is to ask for a kicking.
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