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, how she champions her stable of writers, her bets on hot new literary talent (Peter Hobbs, Adam Thirlwell, Phil Lamarshe, Louise Dean, Jim Younger), plus her thoughts about cake, and suicide.