The cache is not at the posted coordinates. The posted coordinates will take you to Little Lea, the childhood home of Belfast-born writer C.S. Lewis.
My job involves books so I thought it would be fun to create a mystery cache using numbers that appear in some of my favourite fiction. You don’t have to have read the books (but if you do, or already have, I hope you like them as much as I do!), and in these days of Search Inside, Google Books and the Gutenberg Project, you should even be able to work out the answers without visiting the local library or bookshop.
Each answer is a number. Put the correct numbers in the gaps to work out the final coordinates (which are within walking distance of the posted coordinates) and find the cache!
[EDIT: this cache was hidden in winter and in summer it's proving to be a lot harder to reach because of bramble/nettle growth around GZ. It may be tricky for me to move the cache and make the coordinates puzzle still work, so in the meantime if approaching it, please bring a TOTT to bash down the nettles! I've updated the T rating accordingly.]
When you find the cache, please put the container back together as found - thank you!
A: Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
“‘All right,’ said Dr Breed. ‘Listen carefully. Here we go.’”
The deadly substance that threatens to freeze the planet in Cat’s Cradle is called Ice-____.
B: Martin Amis, London Fields
“Keith didn’t look like a murderer. He looked like a murderer’s dog.”
The surname of the murderee in London Fields is _____.
C: Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“The world has raised its whip; where will it descend?”
Near the beginning of the book, we learn that Clarissa has lived in Westminster for over _____ years.
D: Joseph Heller, Something Happened
“I know at last what I want to be when I grow up. When I grow up I want to be a little boy.”
In the office where Bob Slocum works, there are _____ people of whom he is afraid.
E: Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry
“The future lies ahead like a glittering city, but like the cities of the desert disappears when approached.”
The novel stops midway through to tell the stories of the _____ dancing princesses.
F: John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
“When I was quite small I would sometimes dream of a city - which was odd because it began before I even knew what a city was.”
The narrator of the book befriends a girl who has _____ toes on each foot.
Checksum: 58
The final coordinates are:
N 54 (Ex3).(E-D)(B/F)(F)
W 5 (2x(C+B)).(F-B)(A)(C-E)