In november 2007 Rachel Cohen created an exhibition and treasure hunt to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Barbican Library. Photos and verbal clues were posted daily on the website and at the library. Each day the reader who solved the clue and found the photo won a framed and signed copy.
For example the image above shows the City of London at twilight as a clue for ‘The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. Can you guess any of the others?
barbican library
noir, blanc et au lait
neither are plums
7 tenths of our planet
for holiday reading
these 3 look quite tame
follow your nose
gentlemen please
go fly it
by any other name it would smell as sweet
remember remember the 5th of november
it’s light and portable
put on your anorak and go to Fenchurch street
the last kind of criminal we need here
an invisible force of nature
aren’t they beautiful
monk on the metropoiltan line
show us your pearlies
how to find your way around the sky
one for the road
what you might see when on top of the world
the root of all evil
this one should be clear
musical misdemeanours
there were 4,000 in Blackburn Lancashire
Thanks to Snappy Snaps Moorgate, and to John Lake and Louise O’ Shea at Barbican Library
