First Impressions

This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a travel book by an English novelist who wrote a novel aboutthe same country: " The border means more than a customs house, a passport officer, a man with a gun. "

The winner receives a £25 Blackwells voucher and
the closing date is February 6.

Entries should be sent to
First Impressions
The THES
Admiral House, 66-68 East Smithfield
London E1W 1BX

faxed to 020 7782 3300
or emailed to theschat@thes.co.uk

The winner of last week's competition, who correctly identified Raymond Chandler's Farewell My Lovely , is Gordon Johnson of Wolfson College, Cambridge.