diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/store/stores/publio_plugin.py b/src/calibre/gui2/store/stores/publio_plugin.py
index 6854d4e5e7..fbf6d0c550 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/store/stores/publio_plugin.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/store/stores/publio_plugin.py
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ class PublioStore(BasicStoreConfig, StorePlugin):
                     title2 = ''.join(data.xpath('.//div[@class="desc"]/h5/a/text()'))
                     if title2:
                         title = title + '. ' + title2
-                    author = ', '.join(data.xpath('./div[@class="desc"]/div[@class="detailShortList"]/div[@class="row"]/a/text()'))
+                    author = ', '.join(data.xpath('./div[@class="desc"]/div[@class="detailShortList"]/div[@class="row"][1]/a/@title'))
                     price = ''.join(data.xpath('.//div[@class="priceBoxContener "]/div/ins/text()'))
                     if not price:
                         price = ''.join(data.xpath('.//div[@class="priceBoxContener "]/div/text()'))