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Barnsley, 53 HARPERCOLLINS, CEO AND PUBLISHER Founder of the upstart independent Fourth Estate, Barnsley has shown herself to be an adept leader for HarperCollins (which bought Fourth Estate). She is in the vanguard of technological development. Married to Nick Howard of the Castle Howard family. Radio Richard Charkin, 58 BLOOMSBURY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The scourge of literary agents has just been poached after what he calls "the best 10 years of my career" at Macmillan. An internet pioneerKavanagh, 65 PFD, AGENT Respected and feared, her reputation as one of the best literary agents in London did not protect Kavanagh when Andrew "The Jackal" Wylie came after Martin Amis, who promptly dumpedof Swords, in August. Owen Sheers, 33 POET AND AUTHOR Born in Fiji, raised in Abergavenny, the pint-sized poet has a reputation for breaking hearts among the Camillas and Sashas of publishing. Faber
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