| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1200: This author who set many of his novels in Wessex also had a terrier named Wessex Thomas Hardy |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | BRITISH WRITERS $400: Though best known for his James Bond novels, he also wrote the children's book "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" Fleming |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | BRITISH WRITERS $1200: He's the writer of comics, graphic novels & films seen here Neil Gaiman |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | SHORT NOVELS $1600: This British-born author's "Mr. Norris Changes Trains" was later published as part of his "Berlin Stories" Isherwood |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $2000: Call the "P.D."! This British "Queen of Crime" wrote 14 novels featuring Scotland Yard detective Adam Dalgliesh P.D. James |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | CLASSIC BRITISH NOVELS $800: Charles Ryder recalls members of the Marchmain family in this place "Revisited" Brideshead |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | CLASSIC BRITISH NOVELS $1200: Like her more famous novel, her "Villette" was also published under the name Currer Bell Charlotte Brontë |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | CLASSIC BRITISH NOVELS $1600: Michael Cunningham's "The Hours" is a "contemporary retelling of" this Virginia Woolf novel Mrs. Dalloway |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | CLASSIC BRITISH NOVELS $2000: The women in his "Women in Love" are Ursula & Gudrun, who first appeared in "The Rainbow" D.H. Lawrence |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | CLASSIC BRITISH NOVELS $9,000 (Daily Double): Seen here is a cover for one of the earlier editions of this Wells novel The Invisible Man |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | BOOKS OF MYSTERY $1600: What a dame! This British woman wrote more than 60 novels, including "By the Pricking of My Thumbs" Agatha Christie |
| #7231, aired 2016-02-08 | HISTORICAL NOVELS $1600: A quartet of books by Paul Scott bears this 3-letter term for British rule in India the Raj |
| #7145, aired 2015-10-09 | WAR NOVELS $400: In 1777 a young loyalist questions his duty in this Bernard Cornwell novel titled with a slang term for a British soldier Redcoat |
| #7007, aired 2015-02-17 | BOOK BUILDING $2000: This Stella Gibbons novel is a satire of Thomas Hardy novels & British rural life in the 1930s Cold Comfort Farm |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | WORLD LITERATURE $400: "David Copperfield" is one of this British author's classic novels Charles Dickens |
| #6772, aired 2014-02-11 | 19th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: In 1893 this British man published his "initial" book, a "text-book of biology"; many sci-fi novels followed H.G. Wells |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | BRITISH NOVELS' FIRST LINES $400: A Christie mystery: "It was 5:00 on a winter's morning in Syria. Alongside the platform at Aleppo stood the train..." Murder on the Orient Express |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | BRITISH NOVELS' FIRST LINES $800: 1813: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a... fortune, must be in want of a wife" Pride and Prejudice |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | BRITISH NOVELS' FIRST LINES $1200: E.M. Forster: "Except for the Marabar Caves... the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary" A Passage to India |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | BRITISH NOVELS' FIRST LINES $1600: 1962: "'What's it going to be then, eh?' There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs" A Clockwork Orange |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | BRITISH NOVELS' FIRST LINES $2000: Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The often parodied "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents" Paul Clifford |
| #6471, aired 2012-11-05 | BRITISH NOVELISTS $2000: Born in Japan, he's published 6 novels, including "Never Let Me Go" (Kazuo) Ishiguro |
| #6313, aired 2012-02-15 | THE BENJAMINS $1600: In addition to twice serving as British prime minister, he also wrote many novels Benjamin Disraeli |
| #6280, aired 2011-12-30 | BRITISH NOVELS BY CHARACTERS $400: Charles Marlow &
Mr. Kurtz Heart of Darkness |
| #6280, aired 2011-12-30 | BRITISH NOVELS BY CHARACTERS $800: Cedric the Saxon,
Rebecca,
Lady Rowena Ivanhoe |
| #6280, aired 2011-12-30 | BRITISH NOVELS BY CHARACTERS $1200: Charles Ryder,
Lord & Lady Marchmain Brideshead Revisited |
| #6280, aired 2011-12-30 | BRITISH NOVELS BY CHARACTERS $2000: Christian,
Evangelist,
Mr. Worldly Wiseman Pilgrim's Progress |
| #6185, aired 2011-07-01 | CHILDREN'S LIT CHARACTERS $1000: Novels in a series from this British author include "The Last Battle" & "The Magician's Nephew" C. S. Lewis |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1200: Due to negative public reaction to "Jude the Obscure", he abandoned writing novels for the last 33 years of his life Thomas Hardy |
| #5999, aired 2010-10-14 | MY NAME IS HENRY, I'LL BE YOUR WRITER $1600: 1904's "The Golden Bowl" was one of my last novels; I later became a British subject Henry James |
| #5920, aired 2010-05-14 | SPY NOVELS $2,000 (Daily Double): John Le Carre introduced British agent Alec Leamas in this 1963 novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | DO YOU KNOW JACK ABOUT LIT? $800: Patrick O'Brian wrote this series of novels about British Capt. Jack Aubrey; Russell Crowe played the role on film Master and Commander |
| #5207, aired 2007-04-10 | BRITISH AUTHORS $800: The home in Haworth, seen here, is where these three sisters wrote novels the Brontës |
| #5033, aired 2006-06-28 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $1200: After he gave up writing novels, he published his "Wessex Poems" in 1898 Thomas Hardy |
| #4503, aired 2004-03-17 | HISTORICAL NOVELS $1600: Patrick O'Brian wrote 20 books about this British captain played by Russell Crowe in a 2003 film Jack Aubrey |
| #4335, aired 2003-06-06 | PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: These British twin brother playwrights wrote mystery novels under the rather obvious alias Peter Anthony Peter & Anthony Shaffer |
| #3733, aired 2000-11-22 | WORLD LIT $800 (Daily Double): British author Lawrence Durrell is most famous for his "quartet" of novels set in this Egyptian city Alexandria |
| #3302, aired 1999-01-05 | CATCHPHRASES $600: The male heroes of early 20th C. British romance novels were often described with this 3-adjective cliche "Tall, dark and handsome" |
| #2934, aired 1997-05-08 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $300: This British author wrote "The War in the Air" as well as "The War of the Worlds" H.G. Wells |
| #2861, aired 1997-01-27 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1,500 (Daily Double): She was famous for her mystery novels featuring Lord Peter Wimsey Dorothy Sayers |
| #2754, aired 1996-07-18 | AUTHORS $200: "Oliver Twist" & "A Tale of Two Cities" are among the classic novels by this British author Charles Dickens |
| #2748, aired 1996-07-10 | BRITISH NOVELS $200: This Charlotte Bronte heroine is treated as little better than a servant by her aunt, Mrs. Reed Jane Eyre |
| #2748, aired 1996-07-10 | BRITISH NOVELS $400: Like Paul Morel, the hero of his "Sons and Lovers", this author was the son of a coal miner (D.H.) Lawrence |
| #2748, aired 1996-07-10 | BRITISH NOVELS $600: The title of this William Golding novel is a translation of the Hebrew Ba'al Zevuv Lord of the Flies |
| #2748, aired 1996-07-10 | BRITISH NOVELS $800 (Daily Double): In this E.M. Forster novel, Dr. Aziz & Mrs. Moore meet in a mosque A Passage to India |
| #2748, aired 1996-07-10 | BRITISH NOVELS $1000: This author cruelly portrayed his father as Theobald Pontifex in "The Way of all Flesh" Samuel Butler |
| #2632, aired 1996-01-30 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $800: This "Of Human Bondage" author's experiences as a spy inspired his "Ashenden: Or the British Agent" Somerset Maugham |
| #2285, aired 1994-07-08 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $400: Native country of Kazuo Ishiguro, whose novel "The Remains of the Day" is about a British butler Japan |
| #2196, aired 1994-03-07 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $200: James Clavell's "Tai-Pan" is a fictional account of the founding of this British crown colony Hong Kong |
| #2155, aired 1994-01-07 | BRITISH AUTHORS $800: "Under the Greenwood Tree" was the 1st of his novels set in what he would later call Wessex (Thomas) Hardy |
| #1928, aired 1993-01-13 | BRITISH NOVELISTS $100: The first of his 12 James Bond novels was "Casino Royale" in 1953 Ian Fleming |
| #1741, aired 1992-03-09 | BRITISH NOVELS $200: Of Joseph Andrews, Henry Fielding & Tom Jones, the one who wrote the other 2 Henry Fielding |
| #1741, aired 1992-03-09 | BRITISH NOVELS $400: Both his "Victory" & "Lord Jim" have been called "Hamletesque" (Joseph) Conrad |
| #1741, aired 1992-03-09 | BRITISH NOVELS $600: Bernard Marx works at the Hatchery and Conditioning Centre in this futuristic tale Brave New World |
| #1741, aired 1992-03-09 | BRITISH NOVELS $800: In 1972 Frederick Forsyth pulled out this "file" on former SS officers The Odessa File |
| #1741, aired 1992-03-09 | BRITISH NOVELS $1000: This 1819 Sir Walter Scott novel could also be called "Wilfred", the character's first name Ivanhoe |
| #1730, aired 1992-02-21 | BRITISH AUTHORS $200: His experiences in naval intelligence during WWII inspired his James Bond novels Ian Fleming |
| #1584, aired 1991-06-20 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $600: C.S. Forester won international acclaim for his series of 12 novels about this British navy officer (Captain Horatio) Hornblower |
| #1539, aired 1991-04-18 | BRITISH AUTHORS $600: He published his Waverley Novels anonymously, so readers called him the Great Unknown Sir Walter Scott |
| #1220, aired 1989-12-15 | BRITISH NOVELS $200: "A Study in Scarlet" was this famous sleuth's 1st published adventure Sherlock Holmes |
| #1220, aired 1989-12-15 | BRITISH NOVELS $400: This Defoe character spent 28 yrs., 2 mo. & 19 days on an unknown island off the coast of South America Robinson Crusoe |
| #1220, aired 1989-12-15 | BRITISH NOVELS $600: This Calcutta-born English novelist not only wrote "Vanity Fair", he illustrated it as well William (Makepeace) Thackeray |
| #1220, aired 1989-12-15 | BRITISH NOVELS $800 (Daily Double): In her novel, two sisters, Elinor & Marianne Dashwood, represent "Sense & Sensibility" Jane Austen |
| #1220, aired 1989-12-15 | BRITISH NOVELS $800: This Dickens hero quits his job as a tutor, takes the half-wit Smike with him & becomes an actor Nicholas Nickleby |
| #1193, aired 1989-11-08 | NOVELS $200: Jonathan Harker goes to the British Museum to do research on Transylvania at the beginning of this novel Dracula |
| #622, aired 1987-04-28 | BRITISH NOVELS $200: Published in 1898, this Wells novel had its biggest impact when adapted by another Welles in 1938 The War of the Worlds |
| #622, aired 1987-04-28 | BRITISH NOVELS $400: In just over a century after 1st publication, it's said there were 160 editions of this John Bunyan classic Pilgrim's Progress |
| #622, aired 1987-04-28 | BRITISH NOVELS $600: Wilfred is the 1st name of the title character in this novel by Sir Walter Scott Ivanhoe |
| #622, aired 1987-04-28 | BRITISH NOVELS $800: Revolted by his own decadence, he stabs his own picture & dies as a result Dorian Gray |
| #622, aired 1987-04-28 | BRITISH NOVELS $1000: As stated in the book's title, Tom Jones started out life as one of these a foundling |
| #541, aired 1987-01-05 | THE BRITISH ISLES $500: These open wastelands covered by wet peat & heather are found in Eng., Scotland & most T. Hardy novels moors |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | BRITISH NOVELS: Midway through this 1928 novel, the title character briefly takes "their" instead of his or her Orlando |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | 19th CENTURY BRITISH AUTHORS: She called herself "the daughter of two persons of distinguished literary celebrity" in an introduction to one of her novels (Mary) Shelley |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: British biochemist J.B.S. Haldane's essay on ectogenesis, birth outside the womb, helped inspire this 1932 novel Brave New World |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | BRITISH NOVELS: A laboratory known as the House of Pain is on Noble's Isle, the title setting of this novel The Island of Doctor Moreau |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | CLASSIC BRITISH NOVELS: The title character of this novel says of his home, "The wind breathes cold through the broken battlements and casements" Dracula |
| #8003, aired 2019-05-29 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: The author of this tale dedicated the novel to British philosopher William Godwin, her father Frankenstein |
| #7712, aired 2018-03-06 | CLASSIC BRITISH NOVELS: A preface to this novel calls it "a loud hee-haw at all who yearn for utopia...& a pretty good fable in the Aesop tradition" Animal Farm |
| #7667, aired 2018-01-02 | NOVELISTS: A 2015 BBC list of the 25 greatest British novels included 12 by women, 3 of them by this woman who died in 1941 Virginia Woolf |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | BRITISH NOVELS: The title of this 1908 novel is an allusion to the hotel in Florence where the novel starts & ends the next year A Room with a View |
| #7417, aired 2016-12-06 | AUTHORS: Asked if he read novels, philosopher Gilbert Ryle said, "Yes, all six, every year", referring to this British author Jane Austen |
| #7271, aired 2016-04-04 | BRITISH NOVELS: Local legend says that Top Withens, the Yorkshire farmhouse seen here, may have been an inspiration for this novel Wuthering Heights |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | BRITISH NOVELS: In some countries the subtitle "A Contemporary Satire" was used for this 1945 parable Animal Farm |
| #6842, aired 2014-05-20 | BRITISH NOVELS: Stephen King borrowed the name of his fictional town Castle Rock from this 1950s novel that greatly influenced him Lord of the Flies |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | BRITISH NOVELS: Fittingly, this Thomas Hardy character is introduced near the Pure Drop Inn Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
| #6174, aired 2011-06-16 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: Penned by a British author, it became a No. 1 bestseller in the U.S. in 1959, 31 years after it was initially banned Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #4535, aired 2004-04-30 | 18th CENTURY BRITISH NOVELS: This title person asks a pile of money, "What art thou good for?... one of those knives is worth all this heap" Robinson Crusoe |
| #4025, aired 2002-02-15 | 20th CENTURY BRITISH NOVELS: The phrase that's the title of this novel comes from the translation of the Hebrew word Beelzebub Lord of the Flies |
| #3898, aired 2001-07-11 | CONTEMPORARY BRITISH AUTHORS: In May 1973 Sports Illustrated ran one of his short stories under the title "A Day of Wine and Roses" Dick Francis |
| #2825, aired 1996-12-06 | BRITISH NOVELS: This 1895 novel is subtitled "An Invention" The Time Machine |
