Food in fiction is often one of the most evocative ways of setting the scene in time and place. Think lashings of ginger beer from Enid Blyton's Famous Five series or the elaborate banquets at Jay Gatsby's parties in The Great Gatsby.

We challenge you to work out which novels the food below comes from - all you have to do is name the book! Not sure? The answers are at the bottom.

1. Turkish delight

2. Madeleines dipped in tea

3. Butterbeer

4. Peaches

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5. Marmalade sandwiches

6. Bread and jam for tea

7. A lavish feast of roast goose and Christmas pudding

8. A picnic of hard-boiled eggs, tomatoes and ginger beer

9. Honey

10. Blue soup

11. Lavender-infused chocolate

12. Potato peel pie


  1. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
  2. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
  3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
  4. Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman
  5. A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond
  6. The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr
  7. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
  8. Five Go Off in a Caravan by Enid Blyton
  9. Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
  10. Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
  11. Chocolat by Joanne Harris
  12. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows