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1 Which Dad’s Army actor wrote a 1986 autobiography called Permission to Speak?
A Clive Dunn
2 Which British author wrote the 1989 novel House of Cards?
A Michael Dobbs, he was also a senior advisor to Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher, John Major and David Cameron.
3 Which 1959 horror novel by Robert Bloch is now probably better known because of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film adaptation?
A Psycho
4 Lyme Bay is mentioned twice in the opening line of which John Fowles novel?
A The French Lieutenant’s Woman.
5 Wealthy and embittered spinster Miss Havisham is a character from which Dickens novel?
A Great Expectations.
6 Which English novelist, who lived from 1901 to 2000, wrote over 700 books?
A Barbara Cartland, mostly formulaic novels of romantic love set in the 19th century.
7 Which science-fiction novel of 1951 begins with the main character, Bill Mason, recovering in hospital with his eyes bandaged, having missed a giant meteor storm?
A The Day of the Triffids
8 How is vacuum cleaner retailer James Wormold described in the title of author Graham Greene’s 1958 novel?
A Our Man in Havana.
9 Edmond Dantès is the central character in which Alexandre Dumas novel?
A The Count of Monte Cristo, a classic adventure novel that follows Edmond Dantès, a young sailor, who is betrayed and falsely imprisoned.
10 What pseudonym did writer Edith Pargeter use for her highly popular series of Brother Cadfael medieval mysteries?
A Ellis Peters.