7/1 £500 Waterstone vouchers (quiz)

suez_channel

6: These two very different novels both featured the Caribbean voodoo-Catholic gods known as orishas or yoruba.

ONE of them I think I have found is
"The Opposite House" by Helen Oyeyemi
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2077510,00.html
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"The Palo Muerte: A Novel of Santeria " (Santeria is another name for the afro-caribbean religion originating with Yoruba people) by Daniel Vega but this was a 2006 novel
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Palo-Muerto-Novel-Santeria/dp/059541298X/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199310754&sr=1-10

What think ye?

EDIT: I think the second one is more like to be "Spook Country" by William Gibson
http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/displayProductDetails.do?sku=5841119 and
http://www.aworldtowin.net/reviews/SpookCountry.html
Extract from the link directly above:




We are introduced obliquely to Santer!a, the Way of the Saints, an Afro-Caribbean religion developed as the slaves who were taken to the New World from Nigeria secretly held on to their forbidden Yoruba gods in the face of Catholicism. As Tito moves through New York City, he is accompanied by his family gods, guerrero warriors and spirits, both real and imagined:

“And soon he was simply a man walking, the orishas spread through a seemingly ordinary awareness, invisible as drops of ink in a volume of water, his pulse steady, enjoying the look of the sun on the floral ironwork that supported many of these old buildings. This was, he knew, though he avoided directly considering it, a still higher state of readiness.”

suez_channel

13 Who wrote to Anthony Burgess, Anthony Pole and Evelyn Waugh

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Let me throw this one into the ring ~~ Could be CS Lewis ? "Collected Letters : Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950-1963"
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=paAWAAAACAAJ&dq=narnia+joy+letters++lewis++date:2006-2008&lr=&as_brr=0
Looking at the letters collections published recently - on search on Waterstones by publication date - he is the likeliest candidate from ages of the people and the Religion aspect I believe Burgess, Pole and Waugh were all Catholics or brought up as Catholic. All four of them, novelists dealing with the same issues.
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EDIT This was wrong guess I think toniq is right it is Graham Greene

toniq

i dont know why but i had a weird feeling of orson wells
so the way to get that one is to catergorise all books out last year and it should fall into a catergory which im scoping now.........

toniq

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/showbiz/article2438613.ece
could tha be 13? graeme greene it has refrences to alot of those named. someone check and put me out of my misery.

kirsteenatom

It's a real possibility Toniq - might be worth looking in to more - my head is too fuzzy today to concentrate much - both my 10 month old son and I have sinus colds and it's snot niagara in our house at the moment

Kirsteen

NOSONDDU

think I've posted everything onto the OP, if I've missed something please let me know

NOSONDDU

kirsteenatom wrote: »

It's a real possibility Toniq - might be worth looking in to more - my head is too fuzzy today to concentrate much - both my 10 month old son and I have sinus colds and it's snot niagara in our house at the moment

Kirsteen

hope you feel better soon.

suez_channel

Toniq I think you have got it for 13 Grahame Greene as convert to Catholicism
http://lfpress.ca/perl-bin/publish.cgi?p=218950&x=articles&s=books
Extract : Much of Greene's correspondence was directed to family members, publishers, newspapers, theatre and film associates and, most of all, to friends. He admired Evelyn Waugh, a difficult but gratifying friend, considered him the best of living English novelists and enjoyed, unlike some critics, the popular Brideshead Revisited.

He also wrote to Anthony Powell, Muriel Spark, Elizabeth Bowen, Malcolm Muggeridge, Laurence Olivier and Lady Diana Cooper. He had little use for James Joyce, George Orwell or J. B. Priestley and was annoyed by novelist Anthony Burgess, with whom he feuded. On one occasion, Greene lashed out: "You are either a liar or you are unbalanced and should see a doctor

toniq

i spent ages on that last night, i actually got out of bed to research it some more!

lou031205

1)"The Ghost: A novel" by Robert Harris (Was a journalist turned novelist; No overt acknowledgement that book is about Blair, but character uncanny..)