Times/Waterstone's quiz Q14 and 18

[captainandy]

Q14: has anyone identified the author?

Q18: the book?

Many thanks,

I'm able to provide most of the other answers.

[pega]

I have searched all day for the 3rd book cover and your other one with no luck. is 15 PG Woodhouse ? also been through all the books of the illad Shakespeare and Marlowe mentioned Helen of Troy but is Homer the answer to 28 Please.the ones 23 and 24 if you need any of the others will help

[cliffyg]

Q14 Ian Fleming

[captainandy]

pega,

I don't know Q15, sorry. Homer's been suggested for Q28 and that's who I was going for, until I looked in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, where the quote's attributed to Marlowe. Was he quoting Homer? Q23: Madonna is said to have never read J K Rowling nor heard of Enid Blyton. I'm assuming the answer's C S Lewis (but maybe she's not read him, either).

cliffyg, you've confirmed what I suspected. Thanks!

[Boxedin]

14 Must be ian Fleming although I couldn't find the obitiuary.

28a Marlowe in Dr. Faustus 'Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?'

23 Madonna, in a Penguin interview, says she hasn't read Rowling, she leaves it to her daughter. Her publisher (who is also Blyton's publisher), hearing that she hadn't read Blyton, sent her a crate of copies. In another interview, she mentions CS Lewis as someone she read in childhood.

Wu Ming means no-one and is a pseudonym; Belle de Jour is a title; I couldn't find 'John Ten Hounds' anywhere and assume this is the answer.

Help - I'm really stuck for Q18 - the book cover with two figures.

[hotrocker]

I'm also looking for the answer to Q17. I can't find this book cover anywhere. Any help would be appreciated

[hotrocker]

It's OK folks, I've just found a picture of Q17 on the Waterstones website.

[Albionman]

Was 'Belle de Jour' not the notorious blog written - apparently by a prostitute?

Unless it has now been published in book form it wouldn't be found in a bookshop.