Reading is its own reward — but our quiz winner will also get £1,000!
YOUR STARTER FOR TEN
1 In 1974, nadine gordimer and Stanley middleton. In 1992, michael ondaatje and Barry unsworth. In 2019, margaret atwood and Bernardine evaristo. what am I talking about?
2 whIch British novelist, who died earlier this year aged 94, remained in obscurity until the age of 64, when her 13th novel, the Shell Seekers, entered the u.S. hardback bestseller list and stayed there for 49 weeks?
3 whIch play, based on a novel by Susan hill, opened in the west end in 1989 and is still performed there, making it the second longestrunning non-musical play in the history of the west end, behind the mousetrap?
4 anne catherIcK was better known as the eponymous character of which 1859 novel?
5 whIch took place first: murder on the orient express by agatha christie, or the first ever actual murder on the orient express?
6 who described himself as ‘ an american writer, born in russia and educated in england’? he was also an expert lepidopterist and a composer of chess problems.
7 In hIS most recent novel, middle england, Jonathan coe sends his heroine on a Saga cruise, where her dining companions are wilcox, Joyce, murphy, o’Sullivan and thomsett. this is a reference to which Seventies tV sitcom?
8 onlY two kings who lived between 1377 and 1485 didn’t get their own Shakespeare play. who were they, for a point each?
9 whoSe memoir, Becoming, has sold more than 675,000 copies in hardback in the uK since its publication last november?
10 what is French for ‘later’, but also means ‘adjoining bathroom’ in english?