This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a friendly novel first published in 1929: " There, far below, is the knobbly backbone of England, the Penine range ."
The winner receives a £25 Blackwells voucher and
the closing date is December 14 .
Entries should be sent to:
First Impressions
The THES
Admiral House, 66-68 East Smithfield
London E1W 1BX,
faxed to 020-7782 3300
or emailed to theschat@thes.co.uk
The winner of last week's competition, who correctly identified Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust, is Kieran Corrigan of Fermanagh College, Enniskillen.