National Book Token's Hidden Book Game

[MaudTheInvincible]

I can't find a thread for this year's competition, and I'll never be able to get all the answers by myself. Please help! caboodle.nationalbooktokens.com/hiddenbooks/?competition=16

yes it's the grand union canal - but what blooming book??? ahrgh

i have googled crayfish but really can't seen to get that

going crazy with the grand union canal one

You've got one word too many there.

I CANNOT get the cereal girls who're not sisters and are set in Nigeria

Is there a secret hidden bonus one this year?

@MaudTheInvincible they are sisters.

I need the Thomas treasures then I’m done

can someone PM me, I an going utterly crazy and trying all combinations

Only have those two!!

@MaudTheInvincible i googled books set in nigeria and then it came up in a list in goodreads, it was obvious once i saw it
family relation and what is she doing to the cereal?

@lostandfound55 what is in the window? thomas is the main character of that book

The cereal girls ARE sisters. You could say that one is trampling it to... ??

Got the Canal one!!!

just need the crayfish

GOT IT! without any DMs

thanks for the clues, you people never disappoint!
thanks for the great clues!!!

Thanks all I’ve just finished.

Thank you everyone! Got it from a list of books set in Nigeria on Goodreads in the end. I must have misread an earlier clue and was googling all sorts of non-sisterly family relationships + serial killers and getting nowhere 😂

@MaudTheInvincible - they ARE sisters. More pertinantly, who is the one stamping on the cereal?

Cereal sounds like...? What 'cereal' somethings often feature in fiction? How could she be related to the other girl?

@TinyTear

Got the Canal one!!!

just need the crayfish

A Southern US dialect term for crayfish is the big clue.

Thanks all. Much groaning when I got the cereal one!

The other word for crayfish is not a word used in the UK. Sounds like Southern US to me. Once you get that you'll probably know it.

I have three left to get:
Frankenstein
Bookshop
Bees

Help!!!!

Just finished it. Thanks for all the clues, I really struggled with the cereal one, the three women and the Frankenstein but got there in the end!

@ApolloandDaphne, the bees have nothing to do with the novel in question. Combine the word 'Bee' with what the symbol the bees are forming traditionally represents, to make the one-word title of a very famous, very harrowing American novel by a Nobel Prize winner.

I got them all but this year I depended on clues on this thread and on Twitter. In previous years I usually got about half on my own steam and then went online for help. Some of the clues are terribly obscure

Apollo for the bookshop, say the name of the bookshop out loud, it’s one word.

[quote TuesdaysWell]@ApolloandDaphne, the bees have nothing to do with the novel in question. Combine the word 'Bee' with what the symbol the bees are forming traditionally represents, to make the one-word title of a very famous, very harrowing American novel by a Nobel Prize winner.[/quote]
Got it now, thanks! Only two to get.

@Friolero

Apollo for the bookshop, say the name of the bookshop out loud, it’s one word.

I have said it out loud so many times! I think it was said upthread that it doesn't work in a Scottish accent?

The bookshop is also a place name in the US

It doesn't work if you have a rhotic accent. Insert an 'r' into 'all'. Also, the bookshop is irrelevant, it's just the name which forms a one-word title of a modernist classic.

No, it doesn't work in a Scottish accent. Remember the English don't pronounce the letter 'r'. It's a classic about a long lived person.