A new monthly series for 2020. There are 3 clues – Place, Prop and Person – for each of the August born author’s works. Just guess the right work.
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Question of
John Galsworthy – Robin Hill, an omnibus, Irene
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The Man of Property
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In Chancery
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Question of
Herman Melville – Nuka Hiva, canoe, Fayaway
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Typee
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Moby Dick
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Question of
Isabel Allende – San Francisco, steam ship, Eliza
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Daughter of Fortune
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Island Beneath the Sea
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Question of
PD James – London, handgun, Cordelia
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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
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The Lighthouse
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Question of
Leon Uris – Cyprus, a ship, Ari
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Exodus
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Redemption
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Question of
Edna Ferber – Mississippi, knife, Julie
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Showboat
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So Big
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Question of
Alfred Tennyson – Camelot, a mirror, Elaine
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The Lady of Shalott
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Mariana
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Question of
Colm Tóibín – Ireland, letters, Ellis
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Brooklyn
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Nora Webster
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Question of
Mary Shelley – Ingolstadt, letters, Elizabeth
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Frankenstein
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Mathilda
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Question of
Leo Tolstoy – St Petersburg, inheritance, Natasha
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War and Peace
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Anna Karenina
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Question of
Walter Scott – Scotland, a marsh, Edward
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Waverley
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Rob Roy
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Question of
Edith Nesbit – London, the 9:15, Roberta
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The Railway Children
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Five Children and It
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Question of
Stieg Larsson – Grenada, chair leg, George
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The Girl Who Played with Fire
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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Question of
VS Naipaul – Trinidad and Tobago, an extra finger, Mohun
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A House for Mr Biswas
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A Bend in the River
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Question of
Percy Bysshe Shelley – a desert, a statue, a traveller
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Ozymandias
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Queen Mab
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Question of
Ray Bradbury – America, sleeping pills, Clarisse
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Fahrenheit 451
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The Illustrated Man
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Question of
Annie Proulx – Newfoundland, newspaper, Quoyle
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The Shipping News
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Barkskins
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Question of
Jean Rhys – Jamaica, a fire, Antoinette
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Wide Sargasso Sea
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Good Morning, Midnight
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Question of
AS Byatt – London, letters, Maud
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Possession
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The Children’s Book
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Question of
Christopher Isherwood – Germany, a stage, Natalia
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Goodbye to Berlin
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Mr Norris Changes Trains
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