David Bellos is a writer, translator and the Meredith Howland Pyne Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. His book, Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything has been translated into many languages, including Japanese and Farsi. He has won the IBM-France Translation Prize and the Goncourt Prize for Biography.Alexandre Montagu is a practising lawyer and the founding partner of Montagu Law, which focuses on intellectual property law, international commercial transactions and new media commercial and corporate law. He has written many articles as well as two books, Intellectual Property: Money and Power in a New Era and The Riddle of the Sphinx.

Fascinating ... Bellos and Montagu have extracted an enormous amount of fun out of their subject, and have sauced their sardonic and playful prose with buckets full of meticulously argued bile

David Bellos is a writer, translator and the Meredith Howland Pyne Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. His book, Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything has been translated into many languages, including Japanese and Farsi. He has won the IBM-France Translation Prize and the Goncourt Prize for Biography.Alexandre Montagu is a practising lawyer and the founding partner of Montagu Law, which focuses on intellectual property law, international commercial transactions and new media commercial and corporate law. He has written many articles as well as two books, Intellectual Property: Money and Power in a New Era and The Riddle of the Sphinx.

Fascinating ... Bellos and Montagu have extracted an enormous amount of fun out of their subject, and have sauced their sardonic and playful prose with buckets full of meticulously argued bile