YOUR STARTER FOR TEN

1 WHICH senior Labour minister of a few years ago has written four volumes of memoirs, each of them named after a Beatles song?

2 WHO, in 2018, became the first ever Booker Prize winner to come from Northern Ireland?

3 WHICH office has been held by Quentin Blake, between 1999 and 2001; Jacqueline Wilson, between 2005 and 2007; Michael Rosen, between 2007 and 2009; and Julia Donaldson, between 2011 and 2013; and is currently held by Cressida Cowell?

4 WHAT is the name of the 1852 book, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, that was the best-selling novel of the 19th century?

5 WHICH American humorous writer, who now lives with his partner Hugh in Sussex, is such an inveterate litter-picker that his local council named a refuse lorry after him?

6 WHICH romantic poet and serial womaniser referred to his many and varied sexual encounters as ‘hot luncheons’?

7 NAME the one play by Shakespeare (pictured) that is set in the 11th century.

8 WHICH 1945 novella was banned in the U.S. at one time because it was thought that it might expose readers to communist ideas, and in the UAE because it contains a talking pig?

9 IN WHICH series of real books might you see mention of these fictional books by Oolon Colluphid: Where God Went Wrong; Well, That About Wraps It Up For God; and Some More of God’s Greatest Mistakes?

10 DURING World War II, Foyle’s Bookshop in London bomb- proofed itself by covering the roof with copies of which book, originally published in German in 1925?