Hunters & gatherers - Geoff Nicholson

Steve Geddes is an author who has been commissioned to write a book about collectors. His research leads him to an extraordinary line-up of eccentrics, including the alluring Victoria, who collects lovers.

But then the most curious encyclopaedia he?s ever seen draws his attention to a novelist it doesn?t much rate, and suddenly he?s eating, sleeping and breathing the works of Thornton McCain. Before he knows it, Steve finds he?s become a collector himself: he can?t rest until he?s located every book, read every sentence. He should get a life, he knows, but his collector?s quest is taking him into the very depths of the acquisitive inferno.