I would like to thank the hundreds of you who took some of your valuable time to reply to the competition questions, and regret that I don’t have enough books to give to all who knew the right answers!

In accordance with the rules posted on my website, the winners of the 10 free books are as listed below:

Laura Segal from Montreal, Canada
Julie Peterson from Pennsylvania, USA
Michele Boswell from Iowa, USA
BJ Keppel from Wisconsin, USA
Dawn Rennert from Massachusetts, USA
Dana Huff from Georgia, USA
Trish Culkin from Colorado, USA
Rashmi Srinivas from Texas, USA
Alexandra Duarte from Paris, France
Cynthia Baxter from Washington, USA

Congratulations to you all!

Of course, the correct answers are important, too…
They were:
D) 1558-1603
B) Francis Drake
B) The Marquis of Santa Cruz