JOHN LE CARRE'S SON RECEIVES WHOPPING ADVANCE FOR HIS FIRST NOVEL

Following a keen auction in New York over the weekend Random House is to pay Nicholas Cornwell pds.300,000 advance for The Wages of Gonzo Lubitsch which will be published by William Heinemann in the UK next May and by Knopf in the US.
Read the full story from The Independent overnight.

And more about the deal here.