Whose first book, an account of his three-month internment in a French detention camp in 1917, won him international acclaim for its brilliant prose and its iconoclastic views? (1 point) On which novel, by which author, is the film Blade Runner based? (2 points) Which recent mystery novel is set in Barcelona and features a cemetery for lost books? (1 point) The title of Aldous Huxley's novel, Eyeless in Gaza, is taken from another literary work. What is the title of the work and who wrote it? (2 points) In which Dickens novel does the character "Flintwinch" appear? (1 point) Which author, who once wrote a biography of Duran Duran, does Tori Amos sing about on her albums, Under the Pink and Boys for Pele? (1 point) Tennyson's poem In Memoriam secured for him the position of Poet Laureate. But whom did the poem memorialise? (1 point) Which novel, originally published in 1961 and later made into a film starring Dame Maggie Smith, features a 'silent lump' called Mary Macgregor? (1 point) Which chain of coffee shops sponsors the literary prize formerly sponsored by Whitbread? (1 point) What is the name of the Detective Inspector in Mark Billingham's crime thrillers? (1 point) Which fictional character murders a journalist called Hale and then marries a 16 year old child to prevent her giving evidence against him and in which novel does he appear? (2 points) Who used the pen name "Acton Bell"? (1 point) Which recent novel by which author claims, in the sub-title, to be a novel "in nine parts" but actually has ten sections? (2 points) Who was Caliban's mother? (1 point) Who has to divide a fart with perfect justice, in which story, by which early English author? (3 points) The manuscript of which American author's first novel, long thought to be lost, was discovered in 2004 in a box of old photographs in New York? (1 point) Which contemporary, best-selling author has begged fans to stop sending her blank paper? (1 point) Whose 4th novel tells the tale of an heroic Arab who foils a Judaeo-Christian plot to take over his town? The manuscript was smuggled out the author's home country by his eldest daughter and first published in Jordan in 2005. (1 point) Which popular author's widow has established a reading centre in his memory in Great Missenden (UK)? (1 point) What was the originally intended title of Joseph Heller's first novel, Catch-22? (1 point) Who donated their recent literary award to the family of David Kelly, the former civil servant and scientist who committed suicide after making allegedly indiscreet remarks to a journalist regarding the war in Iraq?  The author, in doing, said that his gesture would reveal something about "the importance of truth"?  (1 point) Which author died in 2001, the day after the The International Astronomical Union had named an asteroid "autherdent" in his honour? (1 point) Who wrote a biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog? (1 point) Which contemporary Canadian author has written a retelling of the story of Homer's Odysseus, this time told from the point of view of his wife? Which children's author coined the word 'nerd' in a book published in 1950? (1 point) In which year were ISBNs first used in Britain? (1 point) Which book, published in 2004, recounts the experiences of a female journalist who spends a year living with a family in Afghanistan? (1 point) Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code, was taken to court in 2006, accused of plagiarism by two of the three authors of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. But which other author sued Dan Brown for plagiarism in 2005? (1 point) Which British author was commissioned in 2005 to write a sequel to Peter Pan? (1 point) Which recent hit with UK reading groups is narrated by a 40 year author living in California and tells the story of his boyhood betrayal of his best-friend and half-brother? (1 point)