One of the questions agents are often asked is what kind of books we're looking for. Most of the time we're waiting to be struck by lightning - for our heaving pile of submissions to offer up a script which shape-shifts from pumpkin into carriage as we turn its pages... which looks like all the…

The great thing about working in publishing is the people. You know the kid in your class at school who was too busy reading to look where she was walking? If she's working in publishing (she is, hello, *waves*) she now knows it's perfectly normal to sit on a tube platform finishing a book while…