M pavankumar :editor

The thing you don't realize, my deargirl, is that I have been forced by the economic realities to start taking publishing very seriously. Forexample, it has been brought to my attention that our ability to continue to pay the hordes of people employed by M&S (God knows how many mouths have to be fed) depends directly on the number of copies of your new book[Life Before Man] that we are able to sell between September and Christmas