E:18/04 Win every Booker Prize novel

lilias

35. The book is Darkmans by Nicola Barker.

I've found this mention of the actual book
"Firstly, on a purely physical level, this is a difficult book to read. It's actually hard to hold this great 838-page slab up to your face. This discomfort is only increased by its strange sans serif typeface. The rounded, undefined letters demand an unusual level of focus and made my head swim. As I soon realised, however, a brain at sea is entirely appropriate to Darkmans. The physical uneasiness actually enhanced the experience of reading a book that is unsettling and disorientating - and all the better for it. "

Not sure if long and weirdly printed is what they want!

Datrys

mlle_chosette wrote: »

25. They were all on the 1976 shortlist.

That's the question:
25) [URL="javascript:pictureGalleryPopup('/tol/',3639860);"]These books[/URL] were all shortlisted in 1976. What else links their authors?
The authors are:
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mlle_chosette

Datrys wrote: »

That's the question:
25) These books were all shortlisted in 1976. What else links their authors?
The authors are:
<table style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 86pt;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="115"><col style="width: 86pt;" width="115"> <tbody><tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td style="height: 15pt; width: 86pt;" height="20" width="115">Andr! Brink </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td style="height: 15pt;" height="20">Brian Moore </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td class="xl63" style="height: 15pt;" height="20">David Storey </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td style="height: 15pt;" height="20">Julian Rathbone </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td style="height: 15pt;" height="20">R. C. Hutchinson </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td style="height: 15pt;" height="20">William Trevor </td> </tr> </tbody></table>

Oops! Sorry! Thought I'd done well when I found all their names listed together

mlle_chosette

Question 36: Could be that it won the Whitbread First Novel Award, but it was his second novel?

mlle_chosette

Some of the answers to question 32 (seven winners whose first books were poetry):

Alan Hollinghurst - Confidential Chats with Boys
Margaret Atwood - Double Persephone
Kingsley Amis - Bright November
Keri Hulme - The Silences Between
William Golding - Poems

Don't know about the other two

inishowen

Answer to Q37 is Kiran Desai taken from here

silverdarling

Oh you clever clever people, I only managed to find one answer and gave up totally demoralised. Good luck

choolstuff

Got some more -


26 - But I don't think this is all of them - Penelope Lively Road to Lichfield, Keri Hume, Bone People, DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little; Arunhadti Roy, The God of Small Things, Yann Martel, the Life of Pi, Monica Ali, Brick Lane, Catherine O'Flynn, What was lost

28 - The Seige of Krishnapur by JG Farrell

32 - Two more, which brings the list to 7 I believe Michael Ondaatje,The Dainty Monsters; John Fuller, Fairground music

38 Kingsley Amis?

lilias

28 Think that this is "The Siege of Krishnapur" by J.G.Farrell.

Anyone confirm?

Sorry, didn't see you'd already found this.

lilias

"Notable exceptions are John Berger and J G Farrell: in 1972 the former announced that he was splitting his prize with the Black Panther movement in protest at the sponsor's globalisation; the next year the latter used his speech to attack the company's fat cats."

So it sounds as if it is Farrell, not Berger who made the 'catty' speech (Q.9)