Green Tea by Sheridan Le Fanu is Drinks 1. Not sure if this is part of a bigger book of short stories, or the name of the character who drank the tea, but will look up.
Some great answers - glad there are some classicists around - agree Dates One must be Girls of Slender means as def. set between VE and VJ day. The Good German I think starts in July 45 with the Potsdam Conference. I'm racking my brain about the shilling in the meter Departure - it does seem familiar.
We've already got that goodfriday Don't know where RaytheGrey (or newby) are this year - maybe they're just stumped for answers
The plot of Hanif Kureishi's Intimacy (published by Faber) sounds like Departures 2 - not sure
I thought the European writer and 'profitable victory' could be a reference to Dostoevsky's novella The Gambler (photo too recent?) it implies some kind of wager
I'm not sure of the Alice In Wonderland beverage. Doesn't she drink from a bottle to shrink and then eats mushrooms to 'lose stature'?
So we must say Goodbye, my darling,
And go, as lovers go, for ever;
Tonight remains, to pack and fix on labels
And make an end of lying down together.
I put a final shilling in the gas,
And watch you slip your dress below your knees
And lie so stlil I hear your rustling comb
Modulate the autumn in the trees.
I think Picture 4 might be Joseph Conrad (wrote a book called Victory), and I was thinking that Picture 6 was Don Foster, who wrote a book about being a literary Detective. Neither certain though.
Thanks, whiskypriest. With a name like Good Friday, I should have known the answer to that one, shouldn't I? But then, by that yardstick, so should you!