National Book tokens 2021 - anyone started?

[Snoodleberry]

Just received the email and can’t believe another year has come around again so quickly. At first glance it is looking tough!

Need to settle down with a cup of tea and get started.

Anyone else attempting (and happy to share clues?! )

Thank you very much Trumpton you've saved me from ripping my hair out. I had never heard of the programme but google came to the rescue.

Amazingly I had the answer written in the competition (with help from Google Books) but hadn't noticed I had typed an extra, stray character which meant it was rejected!

Thanks for the help on this thread.
The sad french people on a tandem was the hardest for me, the bicycle is a red herring!
Finished now!

I have no idea about the vintage shop and haven't seen anyone here or Twitter asking for clues. Am I the only person who was stuck on it 🤣 just 3 to go. Close with the others. I think

crispsinasandwich: "it's one if my favourite books which is why I was shocked it didn't work - I thought there must have been another book that I had missed"
Ah, technical failure, not never-heard-of. Phew. I was inwardly muttering about the youth of today and the decline of civilisation.

Dgmac I have no idea about the vintage shop
Google the proprietor's name

@senua thank you :)

Got everything bar the natural history centre....can't work that one out at all.

@slavetothekittens

Got everything bar the natural history centre....can't work that one out at all.

Did my head in, too. Think of the person looking at the building. You want a descriptor for him. Think Dedalus.

I found this site really useful for a couple of the books: books.google.co.uk/

slavetothekittens
Think of something you would write in every day
The man is not old so is a - man
with an interest in the subject in the museum

Try putting the answer to the first two in google books

Where the things in the old shop are from is the biggest clue.

Thanks for the heads up re the ‘ things ‘ clue. I was convinced the nun one was ‘ My Sister ,The Serial Killer - sadly not ! Just the hi vis man to go….trying every combo of end / eternity / infinity / dead .

Yay, thank you for the clues...I've got them all now.

@JAS02

Thanks for the heads up re the ‘ things ‘ clue. I was convinced the nun one was ‘ My Sister ,The Serial Killer - sadly not ! Just the hi vis man to go….trying every combo of end / eternity / infinity / dead .

@JAS02

There’s a good clue upthread for that one.
Fairly recent movie with Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan.
(That worked for me!)

(Less recent than I thought though. 2011 )

Thank you @Giantkitten ! I would never 🤭 have worked that one out. Anyone else in head wrecking mode ? Happy to help !

Just the hi vis man to go
Reverse his board: the words, and the order of the words.
Then make a four-word command out of it.

oops, too slow.

I thought the hi vis man clue was crap, i only read that book recently and would never have got it from that, i got it because of the movie clue from a pp.

I can’t find where the broken things are?

@autumnleavesarecoming

I can’t find where the broken things are?

In the Dedalus gallery window

@autumnleavesarecoming

I can’t find where the broken things are?

Inside the gallery. It's the word THINGS.

I'm still stuck on the Toy Shop. 'Boy, mole, fox,rocking-horse'? Is it a well-known book?

Add the before all those words Four (but forget rocking). Very hyped book last year.

Thanks Chessie, finally got it!

Nearly there - stuck on the black and white circus tent and the one with the man looking at the painting because the one word title with that Stephen as the main character isn't working.

drspouse the character in that one word novel was also the main character in a (much easier to read!) novel by the same author..

The circus is happening when?