Question: Who amongst British Authors wrote the Harry Potter series of books? Answer: J. K. Rowling Question: Name the author of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Dr No and Thunderball, among others. Answer: Ian Fleming Question: Who wrote the novel, Treasure Island? Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson Question: In which country was the British writer Rudyard Kipling born? Answer: India Question: Who wrote the novel, Brighton Rock? Answer: Graham Greene Question: In which classic British novel is there a dog called Bullseye? Answer: Oliver Twist Question: Who wrote the book, A Brief History of Time? Answer: Stephen Hawking Question: Which former jockey became a best selling author of thrillers about horse racing? Answer: Dick Francis Question: Which famous Charles Dickens novel starts with a boy in a graveyard? Answer: Great Expectations Question: Who wrote the book, Swallows and Amazons? Answer: Arthur Ransome Question: What is the pen-name of the well-know 20th century British Author David John Moore Cornwell? Answer: John Le Carré Question: Walter Scott’s novel The Fortunes of Nigel is set during the reign of which Stuart King? Answer: James I (VI of Scotland) Question: Who is the author of the Patrick Melrose novels? Answer: Edward St Aubyn Question: What nationality was HG Wells, the writer that is often described as the father of the science fiction genre? Answer: British Question: Who wrote Brideshead Revisited? Answer: Evelyn Waugh Question: Who is the Anglo-American author of humourous books, notably on travel, which include Notes from a Small Island and The Road to Little Dribbling? Answer: Bill Bryson Question: What is the title of the poem by Rudyard Kipling that ends with the line ‘And which is more, you’ll be a man my son’? Answer: If Question: What was the name of the best selling book containing the wartime diaries of Hermione Ranfurly who attempted to follow her husband to the Second World War in the Middle East? Answer: To War with Whittaker
British Authors
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Charles Dickens
William Shakespeare
