This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a late work by a novelist with Communist sympathies:
"Castle, ever since he had joined the firm as a young recruit more than thirty years ago, had taken his lunch in a public house behindSt James's Street, not far from the office."
The winner receives a £25 Blackwell's voucher and the closing date is October 29.
Entries, including postal address, should be sent to
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or emailed to theschat@thes.co.uk
The winner of last week's competition, who correctly identified Ian McEwan's Enduring Love , is Tom Ruffles of Cambridge.
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