First Impressions

This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel set in Venice:

"Each afternoon, when the whole city beyond the dark green shutters of their hotel windows began to stirI" The winner receives a £25 book voucher. The closing date is February 3.

Entries, including postal address, 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 identified David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature , is Sarah Kernohan of Selborne, Preston.

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