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“1801 – I have just returned from a visit to my landlord – the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with” is the opening line in which novel by Emily Bronte?

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WUTHERING HEIGHTS

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Who wrote the novels Heart of Midlothian Rob Roy Ivanhoe and Waverley?

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WALTER SCOTT

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Dorothy L. Sayers is best known for her mysteries set between World War I and World War II that feature which English aristocrat and amateur sleuth?

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(LORD) PETER WIMSEY

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Which series of novels by Anthony Trollope were more commonly known (before the BBC television adaptation in 1974) as the Parliamentary Novels?

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PALLISER NOVELS

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Which 2012 novel by J. K. Rowling is set in a West Country town called Pagford?

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THE CASUAL VACANCY

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Published anonymously in 1811 what was the first of the six Jane Austen novels?

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SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

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The Mysterious Affair at Styles was the first Agatha Christie novel featuring which detective?

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HERCULE POIROT

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What is the name of the first novel in the Raj Quartet written by Paul Scott in 1966?

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THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN

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Among the most famous adaptations of which novel is the 1938 radio broadcast that was narrated and directed by Orson Welles – it was presented as a news bulletin and led to panic by some listeners who had believed the events described in the program were real?

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THE WAR OF THE WORLDS

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Bathsheba Everdene Gabriel Oak and Sergeant Frank Troy are characters in which Thomas Hardy novel?

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FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD

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17-year-old David Balfour is the central character and narrator of which novel by Robert Louis Stevenson?

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KIDNAPPED

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Who is the title character in the Anne Bronte novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall?

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HELEN GRAHAM

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Which 1868 epistolary novel by Wilkie Collins is generally considered the first full length detective novel in the English language?

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THE MOONSTONE

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Savrola is the only major fictional work of which Nobel Prize winning author?

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WINSTON CHURCHILL

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Becky Sharp is the main character in which satirical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray?

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VANITY FAIR

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Who is best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady and Sir Charles Grandison?

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SAMUEL RICHARDSON

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What is the epigraph to E.M. Forster’s novel Howards End?

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ONLY CONNECT

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Which 1924–1928 tetralogy of novels by Ford Madox Ford is mainly set in England and the Western Front of the First World War?

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PARADE’S END

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Who is the central character in the House of Cards trilogy of political thrillers written by Michael Dobbs?

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FRANCIS URQUHART

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Lucy Snowe is the protagonist of which novel by Charlotte Bronte?

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VILLETTE

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What nickname did John le Carré use for MI6 in his espionage novels?

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Published in the Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915 what is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Arthur Conan Doyle?

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THE VALLEY OF FEAR

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Which Scottish crime writer is best known for a series of suspense novels featuring Dr. Tony Hill?

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“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there” is the opening line in which novel by L. P. Hartley?

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THE GO-BETWEEN

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What is the full title of the novel written by Mary Shelley that tells the story of a young scientist who creates a grotesque creature in a scientific experiment?
FRANKENSTEIN; OR THE MODERN PROMETHEUS
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A Parliamentary Affair was the first novel written by which former Conservative Junior Health minister in 1994?
EDWINA CURRIE
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The Watsons and Sanditon are unfinished novels by which author?
JANE AUSTEN
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The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole is generally regarded as the first novel in which literary genre?
GOTHIC NOVEL
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Who is the protagonist of the Sword of Honour trilogy by Evelyn Waugh?
GUY CROUCHBACK
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Which novel by Rose Tremain won the Orange Prize in 2008?
THE ROAD HOME
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What is the name of the James Bond continuation novel written by Sebastian Faulks which was published in 2008 on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ian Fleming?
DEVIL MAY CARE
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A Moment of War is a semi-autobiographical novel by Laurie Lee which covers his time as a combatant in which war?
SPANISH CIVIL WAR
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Who wrote The Line of Beauty which won the 2004 Man Booker Prize?
ALAN HOLLINGHURST
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George Orwell wrote most of Nineteen Eighty-Four on which Scottish island despite being seriously ill with tuberculosis?
JURA
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What is the name of Maggie Tulliver’s brother in the George Eliot novel The Mill on the Floss?
TOM
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Sometimes known as ‘The Queen of the Criminal Underworld. Novels’ whose novels include Dangerous Lady The Jump The Take and The Runaway?
MARTINA COLE
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Who is the author of the series of romantic novels known as the Rutshire Chronicles?
JILLY COOPER
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What products does James Wormold sell in the Graham Greene novel Our Man in Havana?
VACUUM CLEANERS
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In The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles Sarah Woodruff lives in which English coastal town as a disgraced woman?
LYME REGIS
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Which novel by D. H. Lawrence follows three generations of the Brangwen family and was prosecuted in an obscenity trial in 1915 as a result of which 1011 copies were seized and burnt?
THE RAINBOW
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What is the name of the dog in the Jerome K. Jerome novel Three Men in a Boat?
MONTMORENCY
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“It was the day my grandmother exploded” is the opening line in which Iain Banks novel?
THE CROW ROAD
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What was the first novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell which is subtitled ‘A Tale of Manchester Life’?
MARY BARTON
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In which Thomas Hardy novel does Dick Dewy become romantically entangled with Fancy Day?
UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE
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Which novel by Ann Radcliffe is a favourite of Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey?
THE MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO
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Who wrote the comic political novel Seventy-Two Virgins published in 2004?
BORIS JOHNSON
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What is unusual about the chapter numbers in Mark Haddon’s novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time?
THEY ARE PRIME NUMBERS
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In 1969 who became the first winner of the Booker Prize for his novel Something to Answer For?
P H NEWBY
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Who wrote the novel The Wimbledon Poisoner which was adapted for television in 1994 by the BBC?
NIGEL WILLIAMS
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“But already it was impossible to say which was which” is the last line in which novel by George Orwell?
ANIMAL FARM

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