Tough quiz, easy to digest answers...
1. Got lost in a vanishing act.
Catherine O'Flynn and Maggie O'Farrell
2. Oh, the horror of a carve-up.
Joseph Conrad and Jonathan Coe
3. The rising sun darken it?
John McGahern and William Maxwell
4. Felicia travels to Brooklyn.
William Trevor and Colm Tóibín
5. Dear Mary turns up back to front and wrecked in Iceland.
Hammond Innes and Arnaldur Indridason
6. Myra's long sobs.
7. In the city of the British Museum.
8. Not just a soldier - a lieutenant.
Ford Madox Ford and John Fowles
9. Tough rooster and sweet dove.
Charles Portis and Barbara Pym
10. Little grey rabbit and the slave trade.
Alison Uttley and Barry Unsworth
11. Took a girl like Joan of Arc.
Kingsley Amis and Jean Anouilh
12. Standing at second slip on a beach.
13. A home for Harry the Horse.
Marilynne Robinson and Damon Runyon
14. AS her sister to some brothers.
Margaret Drabble and Fyodor Dostoyevsky
15. Bible of misery.
Barbara Kingsolver and Stephen King
16. Small adapted coin.
Barbara Vine and Penny Vincenzi
17. The Mymble question.
Tove Jansson and Howard Jacobson
18. No fault of Hitchcock's if Canadian goodness is spoilt by Norman across the border.
Marina Endicott and Bret Easton Ellis
19. Johnno got hit in the solar plexus.
20. Obscure fox.
Thomas Hardy and Richard Hughes
21. One day we will discuss serious things.
David Nicholls and Gregory Norminton
22. Sounds like you entrance a she-devil.
23. 451 lonely women.
Ray Bradbury and Anita Brookner
24. Nietzsche goes to Babi Yar.
Irvin Yalom and Yevgeny Yevtushenko
25. Hunting for some hard Brighton food?
No one got them all right; indeed, unlike last year, no one came close. But we have a clear winner and a clear runner up: respectively, Sally Prue with 30, and the team Frances and Kitty von Bertele and Deborah Loudon with 27. Congratulations and the two book tokens to them. And big thanks to all who took part.
