This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a nomadic scribe: "In my grandmother's dining-room there was a glass-fronted cabinet and in the cabinet a piece of skin."
Entries to First Impressions, The THES, Admiral House, 66-68 East Smithfield, London E1 9XY, faxed to 0171-782 3300 or emailed to theschat@thes.co.uk
The winner receives a Pounds 20 book token and the closing date is June 3.
The winner of last week's competition, who identified E. F. Schumacher's Small is Beautiful, is Chris Barrow of Swansea.
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