It's commonplace for authors to switch publishing houses on a regular basis. More money, better treatment, that sort of thing. But Graham Swift's new deal with Picador UK is still fairly unusual for the reason, as indicated by a a statement made through his longtime agent, Caradoc King of AP Watt: "After the paperback of my last novel (LIGHT OF DAY, published by Penguin in 2004)...became a casualty of a distribution crisis suffered by its publisher, returning with my new novel to Picador, revitalized under Andrew Kidd, seemed the right and natural thing to do."

And so, Swift's new book, TOMORROW, returns to the publisher that he's been with off and on for the last two decades. And though Penguin has sorted out the distribution issues, no doubt other authors have jumped - or will consider that option.