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1. Stan and his sister, Flo, jump onto the bookshelves whenever they think I'm not looking and always manage to knock something down. The first title to come tumbling down was, fittingly, the first novel published by Elizabeth Gaskell. Which of the following fell first?
2. As Stan sidled along, another title crashed down. I picked it up and smiled to see it was my mother's favourite Dicken's novel. Which of his novels features Little Nell?
3. Not to be outdone, Flo took a flying leap from one shelf to another and the end book wobbled ominously. Down it came and I picked it up, remembering that I was terrified of the illustration at the front of this novel as a child. Which novel, by George du Maurier, featured the character of Svengali who so scared me?
4. After Stan had been for something to eat, he returned to the shelves for a stretch and a scratch. In doing so, he dislodged some of my Agatha Christie collection. In which novel do we meet Cherry Baker, Miss Marple's maid/companion in her later years?
5. Flo decided to follow Stan's lead and have something to eat. On her return she settled upon a shelf featuring some wonderful Irish literature. Which 1993 Booker Prize winning novel of Roddy Doyle's did she disturb in the process?
6. Stan was obviously still hungry and started to nibble at the corner of a book my friend bought me on my sixteenth birthday. I managed to retrieve the novel in which a major event is the "Feast of Good Children" which happens every 24 years. In which Tolkien novel does the feast occur?
7. Stan likes to torment Flo and so decided to paw at her tail as she lay stretched out. In doing so, he disturbed a novel from one of my favourite crime writers. Who, of the following, wrote "The Black Tower"?
8. Flo isn't the sort of cat to take the tormenting lying down, so she sat up and made her way across the books to get her own back. On her way she dislodged another of my favourite crime writers. Who writes about Assistant DA/Prosecutor Alex Cooper?
9. Stan decided to make a quick but dignified exit as he knows, to his cost, that his sister, Flo, can look after herself in a head to head. As he jumped from the shelves, several books by Elizabeth George followed in his wake. Who is her famous detective?
10. Flo looked very pleased with herself and settled down for a nap on top of a stack of Jilly Cooper novels. The same characters feature in many of her novels, but in which one were we first introduced to Perdita MacLeod?
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