Literary travel quiz

What is the name of the best-selling 1994 Louis de Bernieres novel set on the Greek Island of Cephalonia during the Second World War?

Which poet, born in the town of Cockermouth in 1770, wrote I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud about ambling in England’s Lake District?

Which literary character is celebrated at an annual festival in Maryborough, Queensland – the birthplace of her author, PL Travers?

Which horrifying literary character arrives at the fishing town of Whitby in Yorkshire, England, in the form of a large black dog?

The 2022 movie adaptation of Death on the Nile gave Egypt’s tourism industry a welcome boost. But which author wrote the book it was based on?

Which world-renowned Scottish writer is buried at Mount Vaea in Samoa?

In Jules Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth, where does Professor Otto Lidenbrock abseil into the Snaefellsjökull volcano?

In which African country does Alexander McCall Smith’s heroine Mma Precious Ramotswe solve mysteries in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series of novels?

Which exiled Colombian author supposedly wrote significant chunks of his novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, in Mexico City’s Café La Habana?

In the Grapes of Wrath, which American novelist first called Route 66 ‘the Mother Road’?