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Five opening lines, some easier than others, but can you identify books and authors? I think most of them are fairly easy, I'm afraid - though one of them is rather misleading. Mix of genres, all twentieth century, both men and women.

1. "Take my camel, dear," said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass.

2. I am old now and have little to fear from the anger of the gods.

3. I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.

4. Hughes got it wrong, in one important detail.

5. The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but with little result, as there was no-one in the room but the corpse.

This is partly to use the new icon I snagged from [livejournal.com profile] alexandral. But chiefly because books are wonderful.
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Well, one could be the Archdeacon of Fardles, ahem.

War in Heaven, I believe, for yr last? I know it's a Chas Williams, and I do think I've an ... inkling ... of the title.

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