Sonnets, Bonnets and Bennetts: A Literary Quiz Book by James Walton

Sonnets, Bonnets and Bennetts: A Literary Quiz, by James Walton - the writer and host of Radio 4's The Write Stuff - is a hugely entertaining and informative literary quiz book. 

With questions ranging from the deliciously unexpected (Who's the only person in literary history both to have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and to have played a girlfriend of Ken Barlow's in Coronation Street?) to the reassuringly canonical (Dickens's fourth novel was the first he'd published not to have the main character's name in the title. What was it?), this fabulous compendium of literary knowledge is the perfect gift for all book lovers.

Review

'Fiendish, funny and endlessly surprising, James Walton has provided the perfect volume for anyone who loves books.' Mark Billingham
-- Mark Billingham

'The perfect gift for the sort of insufferable person (like me) who shouts the answers at University Challenge.' Lynne Truss -- Lynne Truss

`A must for those who think they know their literature, this ... includes the unexpected, alongside the more serious.' -- Independent, 50 Best Christmas Gifts for Men

`How nice it would be if the family would sit around the Boxing Day fireside considering the questions in affable competition.'
-- Daily Telegraph

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Faber & Faber; Main edition (6 Nov. 2008)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 304 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0571239374

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0571239375

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.5 x 2.6 x 20.4 cm

About the Author

James Walton is the television critic for the Daily Telegraph and has been the writer and presenter of Radio 4's books quiz, The Write Stuff since 1998. His first book was The Faber Book of Smoking which was published to great critical acclaim back in the far-off days when you could still smoke in pubs.