Book Club Trivia

In a play by Sophocles, who killed his father and married his mother?

What country is referred to in the title of Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country?

In 1990, the British Crime Writers' Assoc. voted whose 1951 book The Daughter of Time the greatest ever crime novel?

Which novel begins (in translation): "Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know."?

Which novel by Emma Healey - winner 2014 1st Costa Novel Award - was inspired by her dementia-suffering grandmother?

What is the surname of the fictional family created by John Galsworthy, whose members include Jolyon, Fleur, and Soames?

Great Fortune, Spoilt City and Friends and Heroes are the three novels in which trilogy by Olivia Manning?

Who wrote The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, featuring a violent drunkard based on their brother

Which brothers - better known in another field of literature - produced the 1st German equivalent of the OED?

Which American writer traced his African ancestors in the book Roots