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Who wrote Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy and restaurant at the end of the universe?

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Douglas Adams

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Who wrote Shardik and Watership down?

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Richard Adams

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Who wrote Blind Assassin, Cat’s eye and Oryx and Crake?

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Margaret Atwood

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WH Auden’s most famous work

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Funeral Blues

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Crash, Empire of the Sun and High Rise were written by whom?

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JG Ballard

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Name 2 books written by Samuel Beckett

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Company and Murphy

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Who wrote Jaws?

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Peter Benchley

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‘A Subaltern’s love song’ was written by whom?

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John Betjeman

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Who wrote the exorcist?

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William Peter Blatty

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Who wrote Fahrenheit 451?

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Ray Bradbury

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Who wrote Agnes Grey and the Tenant of Wildfell hall?

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Anne Bronte

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The Professor and Villette are works by which author?

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Charlotte Bronte

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Who wrote the secret garden?

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Name two works by Truman Capote?

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Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood

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Who wrote Lord Jim and Nostromo?

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Joseph Conrad

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Name a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky?

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The Brothers Karamazov

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Alexandre Dumas is best known for the Three Muskateers. name another of his novels?

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The count of Monte Cristo

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Who wrote the Name of the Rose?

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Umberto Eco

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Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner are novels written by which author?

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Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot)

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The Love song of J Alfred Prufrock is a poem by which poet?

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T.S Elliot

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Who wrote American Psycho?

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Bret Easton Ellis

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Who wrote the comic novel Tom Jones?

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Henry Fielding

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Gustave Flaubert is best known for what work?

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Madame Bovary

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‘The Good Soldier’ is a work by whom?

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Ford Maddox Ford

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EM Forster wrote…..

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A room with a view, Howard’s End and A passage to India

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Neuromancer is by…

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William Gibson

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Who wrote Wind in the Willows?

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Kenneth Graham