This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a classicscience-fiction novel that has just been filmed:
"I looked at my notes and I didn't like them."
The winner receives a half-case of wine. (Please include a telephone number to arrange delivery.) The closing date is July 12.
Entries, including postal address, should be sent to
First Impressions
The Times Higher
Admiral House 66-68 East Smithfield
London E1W 1BXJ
Fax: 020 7782 3300
or email: theschat@thes.co.uk
The winner of last week's competition, who identified G. K. Chesterton's The Man who Was Thursday , is Trevor Wiggins of Dartington College of Arts.
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