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7/1 £500 Waterstone vouchers (quiz)

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3082559.ece

there's 50 questions to answer

1.a) Tony Blair: The Making of a World Leader. Philip Stephens (he's a journalist with The Times)
b) The Ghost by Robert Harris

2 a) Exit Music by Ian Rankin-Rebus' final case b) Exit Ghost by Philip Roth

3 a) HM The Queen as read in An Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
b) The Autobiography of the Queen, Emma Tennant

4 a) Mountain: Exploring Britain's High Places by Griff Rhys Jones

b) House as a Mirror of Self: Exploring the Deeper Meaning of Home
by Clare Cooper Marcus

5 a) On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
b) Consequences by Penelope Lively

6: a) "The Opposite House" by Helen Oyeyemi
b) "Spook Country" by William Gibson

7 a) Ten days in the hills : Jane Smiley (US)
b) The Spa Decameron : Fay Weldon

8 a) Practicing, A Musician's Return to Music by Glenn Kurtz
b) Self Help by Edward Docx

9 a) Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka (picked strawberries)
b) The Road Home by ROSE TREMAIN (picked asparagus)

10 a) "Zimmer Men" by Marcus Berkmann (wasn't pub in 2007 but Published:July 24, 2006)
b) Trivial Pursuits by Paul House

11: Noël Coward

12 - Ted Hughes

13 Graham Greene from The Letters of Graham Greene by Richard Green
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14 Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters by Charlotte Mosley.<!-- / message --><!-- sig -->

15 letters to my golf club Dom Joly

16 An Utterly Impartial History of Britain: (or 2000 Years of Upper Class Idiots in Charge): Books: John O'Farrell

17. A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century by John Burrow

18 Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North by Stuart Maconie

19: The Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker

20 The King's Glass: A Story of Tudor Power and Secret Art by Carola Hicks<!-- / message --><!-- sig -->

21: Ira Levin

22. Michael Dibden

23. Ryszard Kapuscinski

24: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

25. Kurt Vonnegut

26: A Room With A View by E.M. Forster

27: Atonement by Ian McEwan

28 - NORTHERN LIGHTS by Phillip Pullman

29: Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

30 Brick Lane

31 Jeanette Winterson and Sir Howard Davies

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32: Terry Eagleton and Martin Amis

33 - Val McDermid and Ian Rankin

34: Harold Bloom

35 - The Blair Years: Extracts from the Alastair Campbell Diaries by Alastair Campbell

36 - Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCraig

37: The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown

38:the autobiography:my manchester united years by sir bobby charlton

39: The Gathering by Anne Enright

40 "The Secret Agent" by Joseph Conrad

41 "The Playboy of the Western World" by J. M. Synge

42:Edmund Gosse (son) philip Gosse(father)

43: E.M. Forster 'The Longest Journey'

44. W H Auden ('Journey to a War')

45 (The Birds) Crow Country by Mark Crocker

46 (The paw mark) - Simon Barnes, How To Be Wild

47 (the men in a boat) - Peter Ackroyd, Thames Sacred River.

48 (Green trees) - Peter Ho Davis, The Welsh Girl

49 (The trees) - Wildwood a journey through trees. Roger Deakin

50 (The sun) - Life Class by Pat Barker

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  • toniq
    toniq Posts: 29,340 Forumite
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    38:the autobiography:my manchester united years by sir bobby charlton
    42:Edmund Gosse (son) philip Gosse(father)
    43: a tale of decline and fall. By Matthew d'Ancona
    #JusticeForGrenfell
  • BREX
    BREX Posts: 4,283 Forumite
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    2a Exit Music by Ian Rankin-Rebus' final case


    3 HM The Queen as read in An Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

    5 On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

    9 Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka

    15 letters to my golf club Dom Joly

    18 Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North by Stuart Maconie

    19 ?

    20 The King's Glass: A Story of Tudor Power and Secret Art by Carola Hicks
    Thanks to all comp posters:A
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  • naso
    naso Posts: 350 Forumite
    11: Noël Coward

    16: An Utterly Impartial History of Britain: (or 2000 Years of Upper Class Idiots In Charge) by John O'Farrell

    19: The Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker

    26: A Room With A View by E.M. Forster

    27: Atonement by Ian McEwan

    28: The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman

    32: Terry Eagleton and Martin Amis

    34: Harold Bloom

    37: The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown
    Wins: Jan-Sept:£1991.27, Nov: "The Rough Guide to the iPhone" book, "FWD this link" book ... £12.98 :cool:
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  • NOSONDDU
    NOSONDDU Posts: 13,714 Forumite
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    I think 22 is Michael Dibden. His first published novel was "Sherlock Holmes Pastiche" and his final novel was "Back to Bologna" and he died there on 30 March 2007

    25. Kurt Vonnegut died 13/4/07

    23. Ryszard Kapuscinski died 25/1/07
    "Every day when I wake up I thank the Lord I'm Welsh" Cerys Matthews
  • I think:

    29: Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
    :j Ready to take control of my life! :j
  • 39: The Gathering by Anne Enright
    :j Ready to take control of my life! :j
  • 21: Ira Levin died 12/11/07
    :j Ready to take control of my life! :j
  • toniq
    toniq Posts: 29,340 Forumite
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    nosonddu could u numerically list them in your post?
    then they will all be in one place , once we searched them out.
    xx
    toni
    #JusticeForGrenfell
  • NOSONDDU
    NOSONDDU Posts: 13,714 Forumite
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    Good idea toniq. Hope I've included all we've got - I pasted them - never done that before - first for 2008!
    "Every day when I wake up I thank the Lord I'm Welsh" Cerys Matthews
  • kirsteenatom
    kirsteenatom Posts: 1,062 Forumite
    1

    2a Exit Music by Ian Rankin-Rebus' final case

    3 HM The Queen as read in An Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

    4

    5 On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

    6

    7

    8


    9 Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka

    10

    11: Noël Coward

    12

    13

    14

    15 letters to my golf club Dom Joly

    16 An Utterly Impartial History of Britain: (or 2000 Years of Upper Class Idiots in Charge): Books: John O'Farrell

    17. A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century by John Burrow

    18 Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North by Stuart Maconie

    19: The Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker

    20 The King's Glass: A Story of Tudor Power and Secret Art by Carola Hicks<!-- / message --><!-- sig -->

    21: Ira Levin died 12/11/07

    I think 22 is Michael Dibden. His first published novel was "Sherlock Holmes Pastiche" and his final novel was "Back to Bologna" and he died there on 30 March 2007

    23. Ryszard Kapuscinski died 25/1/07

    24

    25. Kurt Vonnegut died 13/4/07

    26: A Room With A View by E.M. Forster

    27: Atonement by Ian McEwan

    28: The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman

    29: Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

    30

    31

    32: Terry Eagleton and Martin Amis

    33

    34: Harold Bloom

    35 - The Blair Years: Extracts from the Alastair Campbell Diaries by Alastair Campbell

    36 - Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCraig

    37: The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown

    38:the autobiography:my manchester united years by sir bobby charlton

    39: The Gathering by Anne Enright

    40

    41

    42:Edmund Gosse (son) philip Gosse(father)

    43: a tale of decline and fall. By Matthew d'Ancona

    44

    45-50

    Hope that helps :)
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