Gill Coleridge on the role of the Literary Agent

Published: April 27, 2006, 2:24 p.m.

Gill Coleridge is a partner with Rogers, Coleridge & White, one of the top literary agencies in the world. I spoke with her at the 2006 London Bookfair about how discounting squeezes authors; about the role of the literary agent, the championing of her stable of writers, her pick of England's hottest new literary talents (Peter Hobbs, Adam Thirlwell, Phil Lamarshe, Louise Dean, Jim Younger), about cakes, and suicide.