E: 04/01 Times/Waterstone's Xmas Quiz - £500 vouchers

lilias

29. The CILIP Carnegie Medal Shortlist for 2008

halkerstone

39 Dear Fatty, a celeb writes: but who is "fatty"? Dawn French


I may be wrong ( often am) but I heard Dawn French being interviewed about her biography Dear Fatty- and Fatty is what she calls Jennifer Saunders.

lilias

43. is a photo of V. S. Naipaul, but I can't find a life story he's written about himself this year ??

Have found this
"Looking and seeing are the subjects of his new book of essays, A Writer’s People: Ways of Looking and Feeling. It is an autobiographical work, but then, much of his work, fact and fiction, is autobiographical.
And, like all his autobiographical excursions, A Writer’s People is centred on the pain he feels at having no past. Born to an Indian family in Trinidad, he knew nothing of any family before his parents."

timbo59

No.7 may be The Pyramid by Henning Menkell.

lilias

timbo59 wrote: »

No.7 may be The Pyramid by Henning Menkell.

Yes! Could well be. Found this quote "In fact, the last story in the collection, also titled "The Pyramid," ends with the phone call to Wallander that begins The Faceless Killers."

homeburd

lilias wrote: »

43. is a photo of V. S. Naipaul, but I can't find a life story he's written about himself this year ??

Thanks for that I had no idea who the photo was. Patrick French wrote biog of him this year.

edda

Think we need to expand some of these answers. The instructions at the start say:

Answer each question, naming the book and author involved

So some of the questions want more detail (e.g. 16 - 25)

edda

Q24:

John Lennon: The Life (by Philip Norman)

Marquee_Mark

11
A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif

edda

Q50:

Pat Kavanagh (wife)
Julian Barnes (husband) wrote "Nothing to be Frightened of"