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You don't have to be an animal lover to know the answers to these. Take our lighthearted literary quiz on books which feature animals, or which at least sound as though they do... All the titles are listed on the EnCompass database, so use the search facility for clues if you need to.

 

 Question 1.

What's the title of the curious novel by Dan Rhodes in which disgraced composer Cockroft lives in self-imposed exile with only his loyal mongrel for company - until he's forced to choose between the dog and a strange Bosnian?

Timoleon Vieta Sit Down

Timoleon Vieta Roll Over

Timoleon Vieta Fetch

Timoleon Vieta Come Home

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 Question 2.
Which writer's biography, as written by novelist Jonathan Coe in 2004, was titled Like A Fiery Elephant?

Anthony Burgess

B.S. Johnson

D.H. Lawrence

Truman Capote

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 Question 3.
Which acclaimed writer published the book Tiger Tiger, a tale for teenagers about attempted big cat poaching that goes wrong?

Philip Pullman

Melvin Burgess

Mal Peet

Celia Rees

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 Question 4.
What was the title of Mark Haddon's 2005 collection of poetry, published after his hugely successful Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time?

The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea

The Talking Dog and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea

The Talking Cow and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea

The Talking Fox and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea

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 Question 5.
Which conservationist wrote the now famous memoir of growing up on Corfu, My Family and Other Animals?

David Attenborough

Gerald Durrell

William Fiennes

Blake Morrison

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 Question 6.
What was the title of Kitty Fitzgerald's 2005 novel about the unlikely friendship between a lonely and angry adolescent girl and an older man isolated from society due to his terrible physical deformities?

Cowtopia

Rhinotopia

Pigtopia

Buffalotopia

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 Question 7.
Who wrote the 2004 novel Jim Giraffe - in which a script writer is haunted by a ghost giraffe - a book described by Ali Smith as 'Part Donnie Darko, part Harvey the Rabbit, part Kafka'?

Irvine Welsh

Christopher Brookmyre

Jim Crace

Daren King

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 Question 8.
What's the title of the novel by John Murray, in which the central character is transformed after becoming convinced that a fish smiled at him?

Jimmy Plaice

John Dory

Jack Haddock

Jamie Turbot

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 Question 9.
Who wrote the novel Sheepshagger, a coming-of-age tale of a group of young Welsh people growing up in a rural idyll at odds with their habits of drug-taking and promiscuity?

Owen Sheers

Irvine Welsh

Frank Cottrell Boyce

Niall Griffiths

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 Question 10.
And finally, in Yann Martel's Booker-winning novel The Life of Pi, which of the following animals does not share the life boat with Pi?

Hyena

Zebra

Leopard

Tiger

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