WHEN SUCCESSFUL AUTHORS CANT GET PUBLISHED AT HOME

Francesca Simon’s anarchic Horrid Henry is a hit everywhere but America. She is one of many authors snubbed in their native countries, Philip Oltermann says writing in the Times Online.

Douglas Kennedy (pic above) is another, sells in huge numbers in the UK and Commonwealth but doesn't make the grade in the U.S. His plight was recently featured in Time magazine.

And there are plenty of others in the same boat as this story from The Times shows.