De Bernières, author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, has lost 50 pages of his next book by leaving them on a laptop computer and going to the Edinburgh festival. When he returned, he found that burglars had forced the window of the Harleston, Norfolk, rectory summerhouse where he left the laptop and stolen it. Yesterday he offered £500 for its return and a further £500 for information leading to the conviction of the thieves. |