E: 14/07/2008 10am Win Summer Books

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http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article4271581.ece

To enter, read all of our Best Summer Reads features and then answer these questions (all the answers are contained within the articles):
1. Which novel first published in 1973 is up for a prize this year? Siege of Krishnapur J.G.Farrell

2. Who is the “patron saint of spinsters”? Dorothy Wordsworth
3. Who lived opposite Woody Allen's apartment in New York? A Pair Of Hawks
4. Where did the sailor Donald Crowhurst get away from it all? Bay Of Biscay
5. Which British novelist is recommended by three different reviewers? PG Wodehouse

Thanks everyone for your help :T Please Thanks everyone below .........


E-mail your answers, with your name, address, telephone number and choice of five books (See list via link below) to [EMAIL="bookscomp@thetimes.co.uk"]bookscomp@thetimes.co.uk[/EMAIL] with “summer books” in the subject line,

Related Links

• The Times best ever Summer books list

mustafa_say_ving

I think number 1 might be

Siege of Krishnapur J.G.Farrell

Perhaps someone could check this.....as I'm not too sure?

mustafa_say_ving

Lost on the last question, at first I thought it was PG Woodhouse, but I could only find 2.

lilias

mustafa_say_ving wrote: »

I think number 1 might be

Siege of Krishnapur J.G.Farrell

Perhaps someone could check this.....as I'm not too sure?

I think you're right. From the Telegraph -

To celebrate the anniversary, the public is being asked to choose their 'Booker of Bookers', a prize that was awarded once before, to Salman Rushdie for Midnight's Children, but by a panel of judges rather than the great reading unwashed.
I'm delighted, and quite surprised, to see J.G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur on the shortlist. It's high time that Farrell's novels came back to public attention.


And agree on Dorothy Wordswoth and the hawks. Perhaps the answer should be A pair of Red-Tail Hawks since the book is called Red-Tails in Love.

lilias

mustafa_say_ving wrote: »

Lost on the last question, at first I thought it was PG Woodhouse, but I could only find 2.

Yes, it is Wodehouse. Recommended by Joanne Harris, Martin Jarvis and Frank Cottrell Boyce.

Analyst

This link appears to confirm the answer to number 2 (Dorothy Wordsworth). See article about The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth half way down the page.

Analyst

I have just found the link for question 3 here (answer A Pair Of Hawks). See the article about Red-Tails in Love half way down the page.

emmedi

thank you all for your hard work!! :T

mustafa_say_ving

Thanks for confirming my answers lilias....:beer:

It was Frank Cottrell Boyce I couldn't find for the PG Woodhouse.. well done for finding it .......I just kept seeing the same thing over and over again:rotfl: