Friday 3 January 2014

Happy New Year!

Wishing all our readers a very happy 2014, full of good books, and many happy library visits!

We hope you enjoyed our Advent Book Quiz 2013, we can now reveal the answers:

1st - The Christmas Mystery - Jostein Gaarder
2nd - Imagined Corners - Willa Muir
3rd - The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
4th - Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
5th - Morven Callar - Alan Warner
6th - The Crimson Petal and the White - Michel Faber
7th - Reminiscences of an Orkney Parish - John Firth
8th - The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
9th - Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow - Peter Høeg
10th - The Mill on the Floss - George Elliot
11th - Demo - Alison Miller
12th - Cider with Rosie - Laurie Lee
13th - Emma - Jane Austen 
14th - The Folklore of Orkney and Shetland - Ernest Marwick
15th - The Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper
16th - Venus as a Boy - Luke Sutherland 
17th - Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy
18th - The Children of Green Knowe - Lucy Boston
19th - Orkneyinga Saga - translated by Hermann Palsson and Paul Edwards
20th - 'The Laird's Son' from Winter Tales - George Mackay Brown
21st - The Box of Delights - John Masefield
22nd - Village Christmas - Miss Read
23rd - The House by the Dvina: a Russian Childhood  - Eugene Fraser
24th - The Tailor of Gloucester - Beatrix  Potter
25th - A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

And the winner is: Catriona 

Congratulations to Catriona, and thanks to all who entered.

Catriona if you could email us at stromness.library(at)orkney.gov.uk we can arrange to get your prize to you. 

2 comments:

  1. Many thanks for my wonderful prize! (And my apologies for taking so long to say so.)

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  2. Congratulations Catriona - we're glad you liked your prize :-)

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