Morrissey’s novel List of The Lost a turn off as it wins bad-sex award

First-time novelist Morrissey has won the most unwanted prize in writing, a bad-sex-in-fiction award.

The former Smiths frontman, lauded for his lyrics in a career spanning three decades, received mixed reviews for his lightweight fictional debut, List Of The Lost, published by Penguin.

Judges cited a scene between American track relay runner, Ezra, and his girlfriend, Eliza, in which the couple “rolled together into the one giggling snowball of full-figured copulation”, later describing his “bulbous salutation”.