Samantha Bond was at the In and Out club in St James’s Square last night to announce the winner of this year’s Bad Sex in Literature Award, the victor being Canadian author Nancy Huston for Infrared.
Bond suggested that for good sex, the audience should listen to her audiobook of DH Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
The Londoner was puzzled as to why neither Newsnight economics editor Paul Mason nor Condé Nast publisher Nicholas Coleridge had passages from their novels read out. Did they bribe the organisers, the Londoner asked Alexander Waugh, son of the prize’s founder, Auberon Waugh, and convener of the evening? “Aah-urghh,” was all he said, and then scurried off into the night.
And what a nice surprise to see Nancy Dell’Olio, pictured here with Basia Briggs, popping in too .
