Quiz: Working titles and famous first lines ...

Test your knowledge of my work with these two quizzes. Guess the working title, and match the list of first lines to the books they came from. The answers are at the bottom of the page. No prizes, I'm afraid ... this is just for fun.

Working titles

	Working title		Published title
A	Storm Island	1	Whiteout
B	The Yellowcake Pirates	2	Eye of the Needle
C	The Lies of Alam Halfa	3	The Pillars of the Earth
D	The Russian Prince	4	Hornet Flight
E	The Bull and the Peacock	5	Triple
F	Five Tigers	6	The Hammer of Eden
G	Vaulting	7	The Key to Rebecca
H	Out of the Mouth of the Dragon	8	Lie Down with Lions
I	Night Watch	9	The Man from St Petersburg
J	Snowfall	10	On Wings of Eagles

Famous first lines

	First line		Title
A	The last camel collapsed at noon.	1	Eye of the Needle
B	The small boys came early to the hanging.	2	Triple
C	It was the most romantic plane ever made.	3	The Key to Rebecca
D	A heat wave lay over Baltimore like a shroud.	4	The Man from St. Petersburg
E	I did a lot of gardening when I first moved into High Glen House, and that's how I found the iron collar.	5	Hornet Flight
F	A man with a wooden leg walked along a hospital corridor.	6	On Wings of Eagles
G	Antonia Gallo was unpopular.	7	Lie Down with Lions
H	On the day of the tragedy, the boys of Windfield School had been confined to their rooms.	8	Pillars of the Earth
I	The men who wanted to kill Ahmet Yilmaz were serious people.	9	Night over Water
J	It was the coldest winter for forty-five years.	10	A Dangerous Fortune
K	There was a time, just once, when they were all together.	11	A Place Called Freedom
L	It was a slow Sunday afternoon, the kind Walden loved.	12	The Third Twin
M	When he lies down to sleep, this landscape is always on his mind.	13	Code to Zero
N	One minute before the explosion, the square at Sainte-Cécile was at peace.	14	The Hammer of Eden
O	He woke up scared. Worse than that: he was terrified.	15	Jackdaws
P	It all started on December 5, 1978.	16	Whiteout
Q	On the day King George V was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London, Billy Williams went down the pit in Aberowen, South Wales.	17	World Without End
R	Gwenda was eight years old, but she was not afraid of the dark.	18	Fall of Giants

Answers to 'Working titles': A2, B5, C7, D9, E10, F8, G3, H6, I4, J1

Answers to 'Famous first lines': A3, B8, C9, D12, E11, F5, G16, H10, I7, J1, K2, L4, M14, N15, O13, P6, R17, Q18

Well done!