Hidden Books Game 2020 - Answers & Winners

 

In 2020, thousands of bookworms visited our virtual high street and had a quick bite to eat at Funiculi Funicula before heading to All & Oh's Bookshop to search for the 20 book titles in our annual Hidden Books Game.

And the answers are... *drum roll*

1. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 
3. Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
4. Meat Market by Juno Dawson
5. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
6. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
7. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
8. Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
9. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
10. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, from an original idea by Siobhan Dowd, illustrated by Jim Kay
11. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
12. The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel 
13. The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
14. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien 
15. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
16. Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
17. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
18. Grand Union by Zadie Smith
19. Beloved by Toni Morrison
20. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo

Winners

10 booklovers who guessed all 20 clues correctly have won a year's supply of books –  a massive £250/€250 National Book Tokens gift card:

Maria Colloby
Lindsay Tonner
Gillian Colson
Lynne Easy
Georgia Richardson
Emma Ainley-Walker
Katherine Ford
Charlotte Belson
Danielle Kemm
Lucy Thompson

50 players have also won a £10/€10 National Book Token each.

 

 

Create a Clue Competition

Congratulations to Carrie, Sarah, Karen, Neill, Jenny and Lydia who won our Create a Clue competition on social media. Their clues were designed and featured in this year's game and they each won a £100 National Book Token!




Thank you to everyone who played!

 

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