| Sumario: | This article presents information on poaching of star authors by publishers from their rivals in the book industry. Arguably the only thing that Martin Amis, Lionel Shriver and Nicholas Evans have in common, apart from the fact that they are all high-profile, literary novelists, is that they have all been poached, in one of the shady activity's multifarious guises. Shriver has recently been pinched by HarperCollins from alma mater Serpent's Tail. Poaching is the cloak and dagger side of the publishing world, a fact of life in a tough business where everyone has to keep their head above water according to self-confessed former poacher Patrick Janson-Smith, who left Transworld last September to turn gamekeeper at Christopher Little Literary Agency.
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