Gone fishing.
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 al...
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Bookseller Media Ltd
3/31/2006
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