Sinclair C5 exactly this tack when he purchased Sinclair Vehicles' remaining stock, saying that his company would market them as "a sophisticated toy": "If you were a little boy, wouldn't you want your parents to get you one this Christmas?" His strategy was notably successful; Ellar sold nearly 7,000 C5s at up to £700 each, far more (and at a higher price) than Sinclair had ever managed. Some commentators attributed the C5's failure to problems with Sinclair's marketing strategy; only a year after the demise of Sinclair Vehicles, the "Globe and Mail" newspaper called it "one of the great marketing bombs of
Clive Sinclair (author) published in 1973 by Allison and Busby. As he said in a 2012 interview: "The truth is I’ve always been a short story writer rather than a novelist. "Bibliosexuality" was originally a collection of short stories about a certain David Drollkind. Margaret Busby said she would publish it, if I could find a way of linking them. That’s how it became a novel." Sinclair went on to become better known as a writer of short stories, with his next book, the 1981 collection "Hearts of Gold", winning him the Somerset Maugham Award. In 1983, he was recognised in "Granta"′s list