Book Quiz - January 2013

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We have teamed up with audio book publishers AudioGO (home of BBC audiobooks) to offer you a fantastic opportunity to win an audio book of your choice worth up to £25 throughout 2012. Most titles are available in both CD and download format. Here are a few examples:

  • Dewey: the small town cat who changed the world by Vicki Myron. CD £21.50.
  • Alexandria by Lindsey Davis. Download £9.84 and CD £18.80.
  • The Uncommon reader by Alan Bennett. CD £19.50.

Library Quiz

In honour of National Library Day!

  1. Which novel by Umberto Eco features the destruction of a medieval library and was turned into a film starring Sean Connery?
  2. The novels Something wicked this way comes and Fahrenheit 451 both involve books and libraries, can you name the author?
  3. Name the 1990 novel by A.S. Byatt that featured two poets delving into the library to solve a mystery?
  4. Which novel of 2003 charts the temporal adventures of a librarian (and inconstant husband)?
  5. Miss Marple is one of the (many) detectives sleuthing the book shelves in which famous murder mystery first published in 1942?
  6. Which fantasy sequel by Garth Nix revolves around the "mystical library in the Clayr's Glacier"?

Send your answers by email to readon@rnib.org.uk by 31 January.

December's answers

December's winner was Ian Dawson, congratulations!

  1. Merry Xmas Everybody
  2. Rudolf the red nose reindeer
  3. Jingle bells
  4. 12 days of Christmas
  5. Winter Wonderland
  6. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town

Last updated: 15 January 2013

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