This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a Nobel prize-winning writer fascinated by the psychology of the crowd:
"There is nothing that a man fears more than the touchof the unknown."
The winner receives a £20 book token and the closing date is May 19.
Entries should be sent to
First Impressions
The THES
Admiral House, 66-68 East Smithfield
London E1 9XY
faxed to 0171-782 3300
or emailed to theschat@thes.co.uk
The winner of last week's competition, who identified Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York , is Lisa Ganobcsik-Williams of Conway, Wales.