Dutch writer Saskia Goldschmidt's book The Hormone Factory has been nominated for a prize she probably doesn't want to win. It's the Literary Review's annual Bad Sex Award, which pokes fun at erotic descriptions.
The novel is about the questionable methods used by a Jewish pharmaceutical company to survive World War Two. The passage which has earned the nomination refers to a woman "as hot as boiling water in a distillation flask"; the rest I shall spare you.