Here are the answers to our Boxing Day quiz (no pun intended). How did you do?
1 Nicole Hayes’s YA novel about AFL: The Whole of My World
2 Malcolm Knox’s novel about cricket: A Private Man
3 Tim Winton novels about surfing: Breath/Open Swimmer
4 Steven Carroll’s novel about the 1960s West Indies tour: The Gift of Speed
5 Peter Corris’s novel focusing on boxing: White Meat
6 Recent Australian novel about competitive swimming: Barracuda by Christos Tsiolkas
7 Gordon Graham’s novel about an over-eating champion swimmer: Stuffed
8 Frank Hardy’s novel about horse racing: The Four-Legged Lottery
9 The Life by Malcolm Knox is about: surfing
10 Fiona Capp’s novel about surfing: Night SurfingTags: answers to Boxing Day quiz
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A tough quiz – most answers were just on the tip of my tongue… But no.2 should be A Private Man, shouldn’t it? Jamaica is about swimming.
Oh, you are absolutely right! Embarrassment all round. That’s what you get for relying on memory instead of checking the facts.