Books quiz

What four words link the novel that won the Man Booker Prize with Stephen Hawking?

Which of the Booker shortlisted authors published their first book in 1964?

Who is the main character in Anthony Horowitz’s Trigger Mortis?

Whose 11th novel was called Number 11?

As what is Rachel Watson known in the title of a novel that topped the fiction charts for a record 20 weeks?

What body part was in the titles of novels by Sebastian Faulks and Margaret Atwood?

Whose first novel for 10 years was The Little Red Chairs, published when she was 84 and hailed by Philip Roth as her masterpiece?

Which bird of prey won the Costa Book of the Year award in January?

Which book is subtitled More Notes from a Small Island?

Which Second World War battle was the subject of Antony Beevor’s latest book?

Who achieved the rare feat of having a bestselling poetry collection with Sentenced to Life?

Who published a collection of hundreds of selfies under the title Selfish

Everything She Wants is the second volume of whose biography of whom?

What connects the authors of Reckless, M Train and Naked at the Albert Hall?

This writer published a book this year. Can you guess their more famous earlier work from its foreign jacket?

This writer published a book this year. Can you guess their more famous earlier work from its foreign jacket?

This writer published a book this year. Can you guess their more famous earlier work from its foreign jacket?

This writer published a book this year. Can you guess their more famous earlier work from its foreign jacket?

This writer published a book this year. Can you guess their more famous earlier work from its foreign jacket?

This writer published a book this year. Can you guess their more famous earlier work from its foreign jacket?

The following writers died in 2015. Who began his most famous series of books so as “to have fun with some of the clichés”?

Whose most famous fictional creation worked at Sunshine Desserts?

In whose books do the characters include Cameron Paradise, Annabelle Maestro, Jack Python, Jason Swankle and Fontaine Khaled — who was played by the author’s sister in a 1978 film?

Who set several novels in the fictional town of Kingsmarkham, Sussex?

In 1973, who wrote one of the few works of neurology later made into a film, starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro?

Which writer and critic claimed in 2008: “There has never been a first-rank woman artist. Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness”?

The following writers will be celebrating anniversaries in 2016. Who is the bestselling novelist in the history of the world?

Which writer lived at Hill Top, Cumbria, now home to a museum?

Which writer lived in Great Missenden, Bucks, now home to a museum?

Rodion Raskolnikov is the main character in which novel?

From a poem by whom did Thomas Hardy get the title Far from the Madding Crowd?

The first chapter of which novel is set at Una and Geoffrey Alconbury’s New Year’s Day Turkey Curry Buffet in Grafton Underwood?

Whose generally agreed last work contains the phrase “Our revels now are ended”?

Which subject of a literary biography this year became, in 1976, the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature since John Steinbeck in 1962?

Which subject of a literary biography this year created a character who’s been played on screen by Denholm Elliott, Gary Oldman and Alec Guinness?

Which subject of a literary biography this year
was the first person ever to be interred in Poets’ Corner (in 1556, more than 150 years after his death)?

Which subject of a literary biography this year is the last person to appear in the alphabetically arranged Oxford Dictionary of Quotations?