Guess the Author

Friday 15th June Competition – Guess the Book and Guess the Author

Morning, morning!

For your amusement, delectation and delight today we have a Guess the Authors and a Guess the Books competition. Answers to euan.hirst@blackwell.co.uk before 4pm when the answers will be revealed (worth sending answers in even if you have not got all fourteen) Good luck!

A toughie this week – no one got all the authors and all the books. The authors are Roald Dahl, Germaine Greer, Samuel Beckett, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, JK Rowling, Alexei Sayle and Maya Angelou. The books are Straw Dogs by John Gray, Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel, The Company of Fellows by Dan Holloway and The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien. I am in a really good mood so I am going to give prizes to the four who entered (and had varying degress of success!) Congratulations Sam, Claire, Marin and Jo – I’ll email you soon 🙂 Thanks for playing – something a tad easier next week, methinks…

Friday 11th May Competition – Guess the Author

Hello everyone! Today we are making it a little trickier, still a case of guessing the author but for today I have played around with the photos. Same rules as ever – email your answers to euan.hirst@blackwell.co.uk It is worth entering even if you are not sure that you have got all 5 correct. Answers and winner revealed at 4ish this afternoon. I have a nice Penguin Modern Classics book bag to send to one of you lucky, lucky people. Good luck!

Answers are now revealed – we had a few issues with the gender of Albert, Alice and Stephen but I’m sure that they don’t mind. Congrats to Peter, Luke, Marin, Jocelyn (just :)), and Helen who got them all right. The name out of the hat was Helen. Thanks to everyone who played, same time next week?

Friday 27th April Guess the Author

Five authors having a crafty fag for you to identify, usual rules – leave your answers in the Reply field below the post or email them to euan.hirst (at)blackwell.co.uk The winner gets to choose a book by one of the featured authors Even if you can’t get all 5 it is worth entering – last week the competition was won with 4 correct answers out of five. Click on the image to get a better view. Answers and the winner will be announced at 4ish Good Luck!

Thanks to everyone who took part today – authors are now revealed. Congrats to Daryl and the 5 others who got all correct

 

Guess the author…a gentle introduction

We are going to run a real competition – wiv prizes and everyfink – on these lines soon but today, for a bit of fun, here is a gentle introduction. All you have to do is email the names of these authors to euan(dot)hirst(@)blackwell(dot)co(dot)uk No prizes this time, just my admiration and thanks. Congratulations to @bloomsburybell and @mightybadger for getting all 5 right. Answers are now revealed under the photos