Test your literary knowledge with a fiendish set of questions from our panel of writers including Iain Banks, Jilly Cooper, David Hare, Nick Hornby, Lorrie Moore and Will Self.
Readers with the highest scores will go into a draw for a set of five of the most nominated Books of the Year. Please send your answers to books.competition@guardian.co.ukbefore midnight this Friday, 17 December, as the answers will be printed in Saturday's Review. For the full terms and conditions, click here
Readers with the highest scores will go into a draw for a set of five of the most nominated Books of the Year. Please send your answers to books.competition@guardian.co.ukbefore midnight this Friday, 17 December, as the answers will be printed in Saturday's Review. For the full terms and conditions, click here
Iain Banks
1 "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." So begins Chapter 82 of which novel?
2 In Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene, identical copies of which book provide the code Wormold uses to communicate with his bosses in the British secret service?
3 Which AI is also known as The One Who Walked the Skylines of Dusk with Debris Held Aloft Above his Head, and in which novel, by whom?
John Banville
1 Who was the shadow of the waxwing slain?
2 What is the paltry nude starting on?
3 Where did Caligula encounter the Czar?