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.