Faber Finds

Thirteen was the lucky number around this parish last week, as we offered a baker’s dozen of top-notch Finds titles to be won by those who could correctly answer a literary teaser and try their luck at being picked from a variety of receptacles… All prizes have now been claimed, so many thanks to all entrants for a really bulging electronic postbag; congratulations to our winners; and commiserations to those who, at least this time round, were not ‘on fortune’s cap the very button’… Please keep watching this space, for we will do it all again very soon… albeit, in the modern way, probably on a timetable determined by how many new followers we can persuade to @FaberFinds… But we expect occasional competitions along the way in advance of another full-scale Giveaway-a-Day week.

FYI these were the answers and the winners:

Patrick Hamilton
Answer: Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky
Winner: Rich Hughes

Ford Madox Ford
Answer: The Good Soldier
Winner: Nyree Stewart-Beavis

Jean Genet
Answer: Edmund White
Winner: Alan Bowden

The Brideshead Generation
Answer: Vile Bodies
Winner: Rachael Beale

In Search of J.D. Salinger
Answer: Sally Hayes
Winner: Dave Lewis

Iron Britannia
Answer: Lord Carrington
Winner: Alastair Horne

Julia O’Faolain
Answer: No Country for Young Men
Winner: Sarah Watkins

Emma Tennant
Answer: Thomas Mann
Winner: Kristian Jackson

Miranda Seymour
Answer: The White Goddess
Winner: Carola Huttmann

Starlust
Answer: ‘China Girl’
Winner: Lucy Peden

Maiden Voyage
Answer: Cyril Connolly
Winner: Rachel Coldicutt

Meira Chand
Answer: Around the World in Eight Days
Winner: Michaela Deas

Scarcely Used Coffin
Answer: Murder Most English
Winner: Rich Westwood